Product Description: Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic gave rise to the Haitian spirit of communism and the “counter-plantation system” (Jean Casimir's term) in the provinces and mountains of Haiti...read more

Product Description: Sociological theory regarding the contemporary (1970s to the present) phenomenon of globalization focuses either on convergence or hybridization.The former, convergence, highlights the ever-increasing homogenization of cultures and societies around the globe via socioeconomic rational forces...read more

Product Description: Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass. Within the class dualism of capitalist social relations, blacks throughout the Diaspora attempt to exist in the world...read more

Product Description: In this book, Mocombe illustrates ways that Barack Obama is the embodiment of the social identity, the liberal black Protestant heterosexual male, that contemporarily looks to serve as the bearer of ideological and linguistic domination for all folks, blacks, whites, Asians, etc...read more

Product Description: Paul Mocombe takes on a giant of black sociology, Dr. William Du Bois, challenging his famous thesis in the Souls of Black Folk. Proposing an original socio-historic interpretation of black consciousness, Mocombe offers an engaging, combative and insightful theory vital for considering the state of black America today...read more

Product Description: Mocombe's Reading Room Series In 1999, Paul C. Mocombe created the Mocombeian Curriculum for The Russell Life Skills and Reading Foundation, Inc. A language based curriculum, it was designed to help inner-city youth close the achievement gap by becoming superior readers...read more

Product Description: Mocombe's Reading Room Series In 1999, Paul C. Mocombe created the Mocombeian Curriculum for The Russell Life Skills and Reading Foundation, Inc. A language based curriculum, it was designed to help inner-city youth close the achievement gap by becoming superior readers...read more

Product Description: Mocombe's Reading Room Series In 1999, Paul C. Mocombe created the Mocombeian Curriculum for The Russell Life Skills and Reading Foundation, Inc. A language based curriculum, it was designed to help inner-city youth close the achievement gap by becoming superior readers...read more

Product Description: Mocombe's Reading Room Series In 1999, Paul C. Mocombe created the Mocombeian Curriculum for The Russell Life Skills and Reading Foundation, Inc. A language based curriculum, it was designed to help inner-city youth close the achievement gap by becoming superior readers...read more

Product Description: Mocombe's Reading Room Series In 1999, Paul C. Mocombe created the Mocombeian Curriculum for The Russell Life Skills and Reading Foundation, Inc. A language based curriculum, it was designed to help inner-city youth close the achievement gap by becoming superior readers...read more

Product Description: Through a series of new and previously published essays, Education in Globalization analyzes the nature of education under American hegemony. The author interprets the role of education as an institutional or ideological apparatus for bourgeois domination...read more

Product Description: Karl Mannheim, and Karl Marx suggested that there is a relationship between economic and political institutions and that behaviors and attitudes are influenced by this. Viewing this postulate as a conception which posits the economic mode of production as the locus of causality for culture, this examination of capitalism as culture, investigates how education and its pedagogical techniques, as a means of "enculturation," reflects the capitalist economic mode of production...read more