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AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to explore how racially gendered classed power‐relations structure history, knowledge andAmericanSociology's historical memory and disciplinary knowledge production. In order to do so, this paper will 1) utilizeCabral's (1970) theory of history to center humanity as historically developed into a racially gendered classed capitalist world‐system, 2) employ intersectionality as a heuristic device to see how knowledge is manipulated to normalize dehumanization as well as to perpetuate exploitation and privilege by denying "Othered' " knowledges, and lastly 3) sociologically imagine this racially gendered classed process in the "institutional‐structure" of American Sociology by exploring the ancestry of the concept of "intersectionality." In all this paper argues 1) American Sociology under theorizes history, a central aspect of the sociological imagination and production of new sociological knowledge, 2) American Sociology reproduces a dehumanized theory of history perMarx's "historical materialism" and 3) the structure of American Sociology's knowledge is racially gendered classed, as illustrated in the collective memory of the concept of "intersectionality."

In this feature review we explore the idea that the discipline is collectively, possessively invested in a particular version of itself—white sociology. We think through some of the key elements of this investment, its consequences, and explore possible ways to divest from it.