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Rewriting the Narrative: Dr. Aldon Morris on Uncovering Marginalized Voices in Social Science
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In this landmark episode, JeffriAnne Wilder, Ph.D. welcomes Dr. Aldon Morris, professor emeritus, influential sociologist, and author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement and The Scholar Denied, to discuss how disruption and bottom-up leadership reshape our understanding of history, social movements, and American sociology. Morris shares the journey that led him to recover W. E. B. Du Bois as the true founder of scientific sociology and challenges listeners to confront systemic omissions and embrace scholarship from the margins. Drawing on Civil Rights history, Black intellectual tradition, and his personal activism, Dr. Morris demonstrates the power of ordinary people, everyday agency, and building new generations of scholars—illuminating why diversity, equity, and truth-telling are central to transforming institutions and creating lasting social change.
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🌎Visit Oberlin College's website.
Podcast Produced by: Paradigm Media Group
Chapters
1. Setting The Season: Disruption (00:00:00)
2. Introducing Dr. Aldon Morris (00:01:02)
3. Building A Diverse Scholarly Pipeline (00:03:00)
4. Reading The Canon That Wasn’t Assigned (00:07:20)
5. Challenging “Du Bois Isn’t Sociology” (00:12:15)
6. How The Field Has Changed And Where It Lags (00:18:20)
7. Du Bois The Scholar And Activist (00:24:00)
8. Bottom-Up Sociology And Agency (00:31:10)
9. Fieldwork, The Philadelphia Negro, And Methods (00:38:20)
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