Confronting the veil : Abram Harris, Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 / Jonathan Scott Holloway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holloway, Jonathan Scott.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harris, Abram Lincoln, 1899-1963.

Harris, Abram Lincoln.

Frazier, E. Franklin, 1894-1962.

Frazier, E. Franklin.

Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971.

Bunche, Ralph J.

African American intellectuals--Biography.

African American intellectuals.

Social classes.

History.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Social scientists--Biography.

Social scientists.

United States.

African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Economic conditions--20th century.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Social classes--United States--History--20th century.

Working class--United States--History--20th century.

Working class.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 290 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]

Summary:

This book examines the early lives and careers of economist Abram Harris Jr., sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, and political scientist Ralph Bunche--three black scholars at Howard University during the New Deal era who advocated class-based solutions to social problems that otherwise were interpreted as racial ones.

Notes:

Revision of the author's dissertation

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-280) and index.

ISBN:

0807826782

0807853437

OCLC:

47224661