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Frank H. Hankins

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Frank Hamilton Hankins (1877 to 1970) was an American sociologist and anthropologist who was president of the American Sociological Society in 1938. He wrote The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic Doctrine (1926), a book critical of notions of racial superiority and of racial theories such as Aryanism, Gobinism, Celticism, Anglo-Saxonism and Nordicism. His other works include Adolphe Quetelet as Statistician (1908), An Introduction to the Study of Society: An Outline of Primary Factors and Fundamental Institutions (1928) and the memoir Reminiscences of Frank Hamilton Hankins (1968). In 1933 he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. He died in New York City on 23 January 1970.

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Frank Hamilton Hankins (September 27, 1877 – January 23, 1970) was an American sociologist and anthropologist
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    Frank Hamilton Hankins (September 27, 1877, January 23, 1970) was an American sociologist and anthropologist
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    He wrote the book The Racial Basis of Civilization (1926) which was critical of notions of racial superiority
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    Frank Hamilton Hankins (September 27, 1877, January 23, 1970) was an American sociologist and anthropologist
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    He wrote the book The Racial Basis of Civilization (1926) which was critical of notions of racial superiority
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  • Informed By: Franklin Henry Giddings, Biography, intellectual influences
    in his general sociological thinking by Herbert Spencer, Lester F. Ward, William Graham Sumner, and Franklin H. Giddings
  • Informed By: Herbert Spencer, Biography, intellectual influences
    in his general sociological thinking by Herbert Spencer, Lester F. Ward, William Graham Sumner, and Franklin H. Giddings
  • Informed By: Lester Frank Ward, Biography, intellectual influences
    in his general sociological thinking by Herbert Spencer, Lester F. Ward, William Graham Sumner, and Franklin H. Giddings
  • Informed By: William Graham Sumner, Biography, intellectual influences
    in his general sociological thinking by Herbert Spencer, Lester F. Ward, William Graham Sumner, and Franklin H. Giddings
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