Academic apartheid and the poverty of theory: the impact of scholarly segregation on the development of sociology in the United States.

The article focuses on sociology in U.S. and mentions apartheid and slavery in the country. Topics discussed include working class in U.S., sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois, his book "Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880" and democracy. Other topics which includes abolition, history of sociology and social change are also discussed.