Margaret l andersen biography of barack
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Margaret l andersen biography of barack
Introduction for Moving from the Margins
LIFE HISTORIES ON TRANSFORMING THE STUDY OF RACISM
AN INTRODUCTION
MARGARET L. ANDERSEN AND MAXINE BACA ZINN
THE CLASSIC SOCIOLOGIST C.
Wright Mills defined the central task of sociology as grasping history and biography and the relations between the two. As Mills writes, “No social study that does not come back to the problems of biography, of history, and of their intersections within a society has completed its intellectual journey.”1 Mills was writing about comprehending the whole of society through the lens of individual biography, but his insight also applies to how the sociological imagination emerges from the lived conditions of individual sociologists.
The central tenet of the sociological imagination—that society and those within it must be understood in the context of particular social historical conditions and the biographical facts of people’s lives—drives this book.
Moving from the Margins: Life Histories on Transformi