Further Readings:

Participants and presenters at the Miami Institute’s 2021 summer workshop suggested the following follow-up readings on knowledge production in the social sciences and, more broadly, on varying funding ecosystems both past and present that can inspire today’s funding practices in the social sciences.

(list of sources last updated on August 14, 2021)

Further readings specifically on the the Global Majority and the past and present politics of knowledge production in the social sciences and neighboring fields:

Amarante, Verónica, Ronelle Burger, Grieve Chelwa, John Cockburn, Ana Kassouf, Andrew McKay, and Julieta Zurbrigg. “Underrepresentation of developing country researchers in development research.” Applied Economics Letters (published online, August 12, 2021).

Baker, Lee D. From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Banks, Nina. ed. Democracy, Race, & Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander. New Haven, CT. Yale University Press, 2021.

Bhambra, Gurminder. Connected Sociologies. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Bhambra, Gurminder, Dalia Gebrial, and Kerem Nisancioglu. eds. Decolonising the University. London: Pluto Press, 2018 (Open access link).

Embong, Abdul Rahman. ed. Social Science & Malaysian National Development. Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia,

Embong,Abdul Rahman, Nor Hayati Sa'at, and Azlina Abdullah. Penyelidikan Sains Sosial Malaysia Pascamerdeka. Penerbit UKM Press,

Füredi, Frank. The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Getachew, Adom. Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.

Go, Julian. Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Hammonds, Evelynn, and Rebecca M. Herzig. eds. The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.

Harper-Shipman, T.D. Rethinking Ownership of Development. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Higginbotham, Nick, Roberto Briceno-Leon and Nancy Johnson. 2001. Applying Health Social Science: Best Practice in the Developing World. London: Zed Books.

Itzigsohn, José, and Karida L. Brown. The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line. New York: New York University Press, 2020.

Jones, Mack H.. Knowledge, Power, and Black Politics. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2014.

Ladner, Joyce A. ed. The Death of White Sociology: Essays on Race and Culture. Baltimore, Maryland: Black Classic Press, 1998.

Marable, Manning. W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 1986.

Mbembe, Achille. De la postcolonie. Essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemporaine/ On the Postcolony. La Decouverte, 2000/ University of California Press, 2001.

Morey, Maribel. White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Morris, Aldon. The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015.

Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., and Siphamandla Zondi. eds. Decolonizing the University, Knowledge Systems and Disciplines in Africa. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2016.

Nelson, Alondra. The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2016.

Painter, Nell Irvin. The History of White People. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.

Parmar, Inderjeet. Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

Parmar, Inderjeet. Think Tanks and Power in Foreign Policy: A Comparative Study of the Role and Influence of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1939–1945. New York: Palgrave, 2004.

Robinson, Cedric J.. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000 (first published, 1983).

Rooks, Noliwe. White Money, Black Power: The Surprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 2006.

Stack, Michelle, ed. 2021. Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (Open collection PDF available here).

Vitalis, Robert. White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Wailoo, Keith. Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany. Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015.

Zeleke, Elleni Centime. Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2020.

Further readings beyond the subject of knowledge production and the Global Majority, these readings focus on varying funding ecosystems around the world both past and present:

Aina, Tade Akin, and Bhekinkosi Moyo, eds. Giving to Help, Helping to Give: The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy. Dakar: Amalion Publishing and TrustAfrica, 2013.

Art.coop. “Solidarity Not Charity—Grantmaking.” (this report, commissioned by Grantmakers in the Arts, is about the ways that arts and culture grantmakers can engage in systems-change work), available via this link.

Collins, Chuck, and Helen Flannery. “Report: Gilded Giving 2020: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy.” July 28, 2020, available via this link.

Gordon, Nembhard, Jessica. Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014.

Hewa, Soma, and Darwin H. Stapleton, eds. Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society: Toward a New Political Culture in the Twenty-First Century.  Nonprofit and Civil Society Series.  New York: Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2015.

Hossein, Caroline Shenaz. Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.

Hughes, Langston. “The Blues I’m Playing.” In The Ways of White Folks. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933.

INCITE!. ed. The Revolution will not be Funded. Durham, NC. Duke University Press, 2007.

Justice Funders. “Resonance: A Framework for Philanthropic Transformation.” (a guide to support philanthropic organizations in accelerating a Just Transition by reducing extractive practices and increasing regenerative practices), available via this link.

Justice Funders. “Stifled Generosity: How philanthropy has fueled the accumulation and privatization of wealth.” (a public education/research project from Justice Funders), available via this link.

Moumtaz, Nada. God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021.

Movement Generation, Justice & Ecology Project. “MG’s Just Transition Zine.” (a 32-page long training tool that offers a framework for a fair shift to an economy that is ecologically sustainable, equitable and just for all its members ), available via this link.

PJ, Christabell. “Social innovation for women empowerment: Kudumbashree in Kerala.” Innovation and Development 3(1) (2013): 139-140.

Christabell P.J. “Socializing Social Science Research – Can Mathematical Models Deliver Anymore?” The Researcher, Volume VI, (2012): 37-41.

Richardson, Theresa, and Donald Fisher, eds. The Development of the Social Sciences in the United States and Canada: The Role of Philanthropy.  Stamford, CT: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1999.

Ross, Dorothy. The Origins of American Social Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Rosenfield, Patricia L. A World of Giving: Carnegie Corporation of New York - A Century of International Philanthropy.  New York: PublicAffairs.

Siem, David L. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science. London: Routledge, 2016.

Stack, Michelle. “With campus co-operatives, universities could model new ways of living after COVID-19.” May 20, 2021, available via this link.

Yahaya, Nurfadzilah. Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,