Author Archives: Anthony Monteiro
ARICAN AMERICAN NEO-CONSERVATIVES: FROM REAGANISM TO THE PRESENT
A small yet highly publicized group of right wing Afro-American academics and ideologues has in the last ten years appeared on the political scene. Among the most well known are Clarence Pendelton, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Glenn Loury Alan Keyes … Continue reading
RACE, POWER, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE DUBOISIAN EPISTEME
In the years 1892 to 1895, while completing research and studies at Harvard and the University of Berlin, which would eventually appear as his doctoral dissertation, W.E.B Du Bois boldly projected the possibility of subjecting to scientific scrutiny the problem … Continue reading
American Theocracy: A Study of Late Stage US Capitalism
Kevin Phillips’ American Theocracy: The Perils and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century is a stunning political and intellectual achievement. In several respects it is courageous; given that Kevin Phillips almost thirty-five years ago … Continue reading
BLACK POWER, BARACK OBAMA AND PENIEL E JOSEPH’S DEFENSE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
PENIEL E. Joseph’s DARK DAYS, BRIGHT NIGHTS: FROM BLACK POWER TO BARACK OBAMA is an interpretive narrative of how the Civil Rights and Black Power movements transformed American democracy creating democratic possibilities leading to the election of Barack Obama in … Continue reading
LOGIC, METHODOLOGY AND RATIONAL CHOICE MARXISM
Methodological issues present themselves as pressing matters in sociology, philosophy, and the philosophy of science. Whether stated or not, epistemological and logical assumptions and problems inform contemporary discourse in sociological theory. Within Marxist discourse, these questions assume a new centrality. … Continue reading
LOGIC, METHODOLOGY AND MARXISM: A PROBLEM OF PETIT BOURGEOIS THEORY
A recent trend in Marxism has emerged which constitutes a radical departure from traditional or orthodox Marxism. Its sources are manifold. In an immediate sense it is a part of the debate with structural Marxism and the Althusserians. At the … Continue reading
THE UNDERCLASS THEORY AND ITS POLITICAL AND POLICY CONSEQUENCES
Bourgeois theories of class, class struggle and racism have assumed new ideological significance. More than mere academic brain games these theories embrace partisan class commitments. As such they have become an unalterable component of the general ideological struggle. Uppermost are … Continue reading
AN EMERGENCY APPEAL TO THE WORLD ON BEHALF OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE
NOTE: I composed this appeal to the world on behalf of a coalition of African American activist organizations in the summer of 2000 as the Republican Party began it’s national convention in Philadelphia. Anticipating demonstrations and protests against racism and … Continue reading
AIDS and the black community: The cost of denial is far too high
NOTE: This article appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer in February 2001. I entered the issue of AIDS and denial in the African American community. I locate the denial in homophobia, which is a form of bad faith. AIDS is forcing … Continue reading
LET’S LOOK TO BAYARD RUSTIN FOR INSPIRATION
Note: This article was published December 2002 in The Philadelphia Inquirer. It appeared at a time when a controversy raged in West Chester PA over renaming Bayard Rustin’s alma mater West Chester High School after him. The controversy was multilayered … Continue reading
