E. Franklin Frazier
American sociologist and writer (1894-1962) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 67
Edward Franklin Frazier, was an American sociologist and author, publishing as E. Franklin Frazier.
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His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation was published as a book titled The Negro Family in the United States (1939); it analyzed the historical forces that influenced the development of the African-American family from the time of slavery to the mid-1930s. The book was awarded the 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for the most significant work in the field of race relations. It was among the first sociological works on Black people researched and written by a black person.
