Edward Franklin Frazier, who published as E. Franklin Frazier, was an American sociologist, born in Baltimore in 1894, who earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1931 and spent most of his career on the faculty of Howard University. His 1939 book The Negro Family in the United States examined the effects of slavery, migration and urbanization on Black American family structure and won the 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, ranking among the first sociological studies of Black American life researched and written by a Black scholar. His later book Black Bourgeoisie (1957) offered a critical account of the Black American middle class. In 1948 he became the first Black sociologist elected president of the American Sociological Association. He died in 1962.
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Frazier The Negro Family in the United States traced how slavery and its aftermath reshaped Black family structure in America.
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Frazier earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago under Park, part of the first generation of the Chicago School.
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Edward Franklin Frazier (; September 24, 1894, May 17, 1962), was an American sociologist and author, publishing as E. Franklin Frazier.
Biography section
Frazier was born in Baltimore in 1894 as one of five children of James H. Frazier, a bank messenger, and Mary (Clark) Frazier, a homemaker.
Biography section, birth sentence
Frazier was born in Baltimore in 1894 as one of five children of James H. Frazier, a bank messenger, and Mary (Clark) Frazier, a homemaker.
Biography section, death sentence
Frazier died on May 17, 1962, age 67, in Washington, D.C.
Lead section, dissertation sentence
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.
Lead section, ASA president sentence
In 1948 Frazier was elected as the first black president of the American Sociological Association.
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