Dr. Ali Meghji, Associate professor in sociology at the University of Cambridge sat down with Dan Morrison to discuss his forthcoming article in Sociological Forum, “Du Boisian Sociology after Du Bois: Frazier, St. Clair Drake, and the Global and Comparative Study of Race and Empire”. The article is part of his larger project analyzing the unpublished writings of five essential Black sociologists, including Du Bois, Frazier, Anna Julia Cooper, St. Clair Drake, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Meghji investigates the global dynamics of racialization and racism using critical race theory and postcolonial sociology. A prolific author, Meghji published four books in the past five years: most recently, 2023’s A secret synergy: race, decoloniality, and world crises with Temple University Press; In 2022, The racialized social system: critical race theory as social theorywith Polity; in 2020, Decolonizing Sociology, also with Polity; and finally in 2019, Black middle-class Britannia: identities, repertoires, cultural consumption, with Manchester University Press in the UK and Oxford University Press in the United States. As these books suggest, Ali is an expert in the areas of decolonial thought, critical race theory, the sociology of knowledge, and social theory. He is here primarily to discuss a forthcoming article in In addition to all this research, Meghji is co-editor in chief of the British Journal of Sociologyand Sociology Compass, alongside many other efforts to serve and advance post and decolonial sociology.
