E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered - Hardcover

Platt, Anthony M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813516315 ISBN 13: 9780813516318

Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr, 1991

Synopsis

Book by Platt, Anthony M.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

A pioneer of Afro-American studies, E. Franklin Frazier (1894-1962) was embroiled in controversy. An outspoken critic of the black middle class's ``servile conformity,'' an unwavering atheist, a leftist continually harassed by the FBI, the pugnacious, determined sociologist was highly suspicious of the cultural nationalism of the 1920s Negro Renaissance. His portrayal of the ``disorganized'' black urban family, battered by racism and exploitation, was held by critics to be a key influence on the notorious Moynihan Report , the 1965 study in which Daniel P. Moynihan posited a ``tangle of pathology'' strangling inner-city communities. In this admirably balanced, engrossing biography, Platt defends Frazier from his detractors, showing that Frazier's writings on African-American family life demolished racist stereotypes about the monolithic nature of the black family. Platt is a professor of social work at California State University. Photos.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0813516315
• ISBN 13: 9780813516318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278