E. Franklin Frazier

Edward Franklin Frazier (born 24 September 1894 in Baltimore, Maryland; † 17 May 1962 Washington, DC) was an American sociologist and 38th President of the American Sociological Association. He was the first African-American scientists in this office.

Life and work

Frazier was one of five children of James H. Frazier, a bank messenger and his wife, Mary Clark Frazier. Originally from the small African-American middle class young man fell even as his graduate Colored High School in Baltimore (June 1912) and received the scholarship awarded annually to its School of Howard University in Washington, DC. There he graduated with honors in 1916. E. Franklin Frazier was devoted to diverse Interessem and so occupied different subjects such as Latin, Ancient Greek, German and mathematics. He was also in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) and was involved in the Intercollegiate Socialist Society.

Frazier began his career as a teacher of mathematics at Tuskegee Institute (1916 - 1917), then taught English and history at the HSt. Paul's Normal and Industrial School in Lawrenceville, Virginia (1917-1918) and French and mathematics at a high school in Baltimore ( 1918-1919 ).

1920 Frazier gained as a student at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts a Master 's Degree with a sociological work on " New Currents of Thought Among the Colored People of America" ​​.

After a fellowship at the New York School of Social Work (later Columbia University School of Social Work ) and a year at the University of Copenhagen as a Fellow of the American Scandinavian Foundation Frazier took over the leadership of the Atlanta School of Social Work at Georgia State University. In addition, he taught sociology at Morehouse College.

Frazier's article "The Pathology of Race Prejudice " (1927 ), in which he compared the racial prejudice with a mental illness, led to his dismissal in Atlanta. As a result, Frazier put his doctorate in sociology at the University of Chicago. His dissertation The Negro Family in Chicago, later expanded to the book The Negro Family in the United States, is dedicated to open the sometimes problematic Familienstukturen his minority, which interfere with the social advancement, but also shows the cultural and historical reasons for this phenomena. The book won the 1939 Anisfield Award. In the 1930s, Frazier taught at Fisk University in Nashville, and as of 1934 at Howard University in Washington. 1948 Frazier was elected as the first African American president of the American Sociological Society.

Frazier's book Black bourgeoisie, which first appeared in French in 1955, criticized the conservatism of the black middle class. His leftist critical and self-critical view of their own minority, and his pugnacious temperament also promoted otherwise repeated conflicts academic and political nature Charles S. Johnson and Melville J. Herskovits here were his main opponents. Frazier's mentor was W. E. B. Du Bois.

Works

  • The Free Negro Family: a Study of Family Origins Before the Civil War ( Nashville: Fisk University Press, 1932)
  • The Negro Family in Chicago ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1932)
  • The Negro Family in the United States ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939)
  • The Negro Family in Bahia, Brazil ( 1942)
  • The Negro in the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1949)
  • The integration of the Negro into American Society (editor) (Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1951).
  • Bourgeoisie noire (Paris: Plon, 1955)
  • Black bourgeoisie (translation of bourgeoisie noire ) ( Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1957)
  • Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World (New York: Knopf, 1957)
  • The Negro Church in America (New York: Schocken Books, 1963)
  • On Race Relations: Selected Writings, edited and with an introduction by G. Franklin Edwards, ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968 )
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