Black Bourgeoisie
Author: Franklin Frazier
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1997-02-13
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0684832410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published: Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, [1957].
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E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie
Author: James E. Teele
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2002-05-02
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 0826263496
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When E. Franklin Frazier was elected the first black president of the American Sociological Association in 1948, he was established as the leading American scholar on the black family and was also recognized as a leading theorist on the dynamics of social change and race relations. By 1948 his lengthy list of publications included over fifty articles and four major books, including the acclaimed Negro Family in the United States. Frazier was known for his thorough scholarship and his mastery of skills in both history and sociology. With the publication of Bourgeoisie Noire in 1955 (translated in 1957 as Black Bourgeoisie), Frazier apparently set out on a different track, one in which he employed his skills in a critical analysis of the black middle class. The book met with mixed reviews and harsh criticism from the black middle and professional class. Yet Frazier stood solidly by his argument that the black middle class was marked by conspicuous consumption, wish fulfillment, and a world of make-believe. While Frazier published four additional books after 1948, Black Bourgeoisie remained by far his most controversial. Given his status in American sociology, there has been surprisingly little study of Frazier's work. In E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie, a group of distinguished scholars remedies that lack, focusing on his often-scorned Black Bourgeoisie. This in-depth look at Frazier's controversial publication is relevant to the growing concerns about racism, problems in our cities, the limitations of affirmative action, and the promise of self-help.
The Hornes
Author: Gail Lumet Buckley
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781557835642
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recounts the story of the Horne family spanning eight generations and describing America's developing black middle class by Lena Horne's daughter.
E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered
From Bourgeois to Boojie
Author: Vershawn Ashanti Young
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780814334683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.
The Negro Church in America/The Black Church Since Frazier
Author: E. Franklin Frazier
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 1974-01-13
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0805203877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Frazier's study of the black church and an essay by Lincoln arguing that the civil rights movement saw the splintering of the traditional black church and the creation of new roles for religion.
Confronting the Veil
Author: Jonathan Scott Holloway
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-04-23
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0807860352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Jonathan Holloway explores the early lives and careers of economist Abram Harris Jr., sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, and political scientist Ralph Bunche--three black scholars who taught at Howard University during the New Deal and, together, formed the leading edge of American social science radicalism. Harris, Frazier, and Bunche represented the vanguard of the young black radical intellectual-activists who dared to criticize the NAACP for its cautious civil rights agenda and saw in the turmoil of the Great Depression an opportunity to advocate class-based solutions to what were commonly considered racial problems. Despite the broader approach they called for, both their advocates and their detractors had difficulty seeing them as anything but "black intellectuals" speaking on "black issues." A social and intellectual history of the trio, of Howard University, and of black Washington, Confronting the Veil investigates the effects of racialized thinking on Harris, Frazier, Bunche, and others who wanted to think "beyond race--who envisioned a workers' movement that would eliminate racial divisiveness and who used social science to demonstrate the ways in which race is constructed by social phenomena. Ultimately, the book sheds new light on how people have used race to constrain the possibilities of radical politics and social science thinking.
Race in North America
Author: Audrey Smedley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-20
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0429974418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This sweeping work traces the idea of race for more than three centuries to show that 'race' is not a product of science but a cultural invention that has been used variously and opportunistically since the eighteenth century. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this renowned text includes a compelling new chapter on the health impacts of the racial worldview, as well as a thoroughly rewritten chapter that explores the election of Barack Obama and its implications for the meaning of race in America and the future of our racial ideology.
The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940
Author: Matthew Pratt Guterl
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002-10-30
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0674038053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. An elegant account of the roiling environment that witnessed the shift from the multiplicity of white races to the arrival of biracialism, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age: Daniel Cohalan, the Irish-American nationalist, Tammany Hall man, and ruthless politician; Madison Grant, the patrician eugenicist and noisy white supremacist; W. E. B. Du Bois, the African-American social scientist and advocate of social justice; and Jean Toomer, the American pluralist and novelist of the interior life. Race, politics, and classification were their intense and troubling preoccupations in a world they did not create, would not accept, and tried to change.
Uplifting the Race
Author: Kevin K. Gaines
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 146960647X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Amidst the violent racism prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century, African American cultural elites, struggling to articulate a positive black identity, developed a middle-class ideology of racial uplift. Insisting that they were truly representative of the race's potential, black elites espoused an ethos of self-help and service to the black masses and distinguished themselves from the black majority as agents of civilization; hence the phrase 'uplifting the race.' A central assumption of racial uplift ideology was that African Americans' material and moral progress would diminish white racism. But Kevin Gaines argues that, in its emphasis on class distinctions and patriarchal authority, racial uplift ideology was tied to pejorative notions of racial pathology and thus was limited as a force against white prejudice. Drawing on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Hubert H. Harrison, and others, Gaines focuses on the intersections between race and gender in both racial uplift ideology and black nationalist thought, showing that the meaning of uplift was intensely contested even among those who shared its aims. Ultimately, elite conceptions of the ideology retreated from more democratic visions of uplift as social advancement, leaving a legacy that narrows our conceptions of rights, citizenship, and social justice.
