Laila Haidarali
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479875108
- eISBN:
- 9781479865499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479875108.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter daws on three published sociological works: Franklin E. Frazier’s, Negro Youth at the Crossways (1940), Charles S. Johnson’s, Growing Up in the Black Belt (1941), and Charles H. ...
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This chapter daws on three published sociological works: Franklin E. Frazier’s, Negro Youth at the Crossways (1940), Charles S. Johnson’s, Growing Up in the Black Belt (1941), and Charles H. Parrish’s, Color Names and Color Notions (1946). These sociological views on color showed brown identity as an emergent social ideal and image of African America, and in varying degrees drew crucial connections of brownness to values associated with an ascendant middle-class status. These sociologists are presented as racial liberals who offered concrete and critical assessments of the rising idealization of brown complexions among African American youth coming of age between the Great Depression and World War II.Less
This chapter daws on three published sociological works: Franklin E. Frazier’s, Negro Youth at the Crossways (1940), Charles S. Johnson’s, Growing Up in the Black Belt (1941), and Charles H. Parrish’s, Color Names and Color Notions (1946). These sociological views on color showed brown identity as an emergent social ideal and image of African America, and in varying degrees drew crucial connections of brownness to values associated with an ascendant middle-class status. These sociologists are presented as racial liberals who offered concrete and critical assessments of the rising idealization of brown complexions among African American youth coming of age between the Great Depression and World War II.
Anastasia C. Curwood
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834343
- eISBN:
- 9781469603872
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807868386_curwood.6
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter describes the ideal New Negro husband. After World War II, many men sought to claim the right to rule their households. The chapter examines three places where New Negro men constructed ...
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This chapter describes the ideal New Negro husband. After World War II, many men sought to claim the right to rule their households. The chapter examines three places where New Negro men constructed husband's roles: the pages of the magazine, Messenger; the writings of sociologist E. Franklin Frazier; and the unpublished journals and correspondence of the writer Jean Toomer.Less
This chapter describes the ideal New Negro husband. After World War II, many men sought to claim the right to rule their households. The chapter examines three places where New Negro men constructed husband's roles: the pages of the magazine, Messenger; the writings of sociologist E. Franklin Frazier; and the unpublished journals and correspondence of the writer Jean Toomer.
Joseph R. Fitzgerald
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780813176499
- eISBN:
- 9780813176529
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813176499.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter follows Gloria Richardson’s ongoing intellectual development at Howard University in Washington, DC. Under the tutelage of intellectual giants such as E. Franklin Frazier, Rayford Logan, ...
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This chapter follows Gloria Richardson’s ongoing intellectual development at Howard University in Washington, DC. Under the tutelage of intellectual giants such as E. Franklin Frazier, Rayford Logan, and Sterling Brown, Richardson broadened and sharpened her social, economic, and political philosophies. Through her sociology courses, Richardson obtained the knowledge and research skills that would provecritical to her leadership of the Cambridge movement. It was also during her time at Howard that Richardson participated in her first organized protest against racism.Less
This chapter follows Gloria Richardson’s ongoing intellectual development at Howard University in Washington, DC. Under the tutelage of intellectual giants such as E. Franklin Frazier, Rayford Logan, and Sterling Brown, Richardson broadened and sharpened her social, economic, and political philosophies. Through her sociology courses, Richardson obtained the knowledge and research skills that would provecritical to her leadership of the Cambridge movement. It was also during her time at Howard that Richardson participated in her first organized protest against racism.
Alma J. Carten
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- April 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780197518465
- eISBN:
- 9780197518496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197518465.003.0008
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
In establishing context, this chapter examines the ways in which the system of enslavement continues to influence economic and well-being outcomes for black Atlantans. Events covered include the ...
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In establishing context, this chapter examines the ways in which the system of enslavement continues to influence economic and well-being outcomes for black Atlantans. Events covered include the emergence of “Sweet Auburn Avenue,” the death of Booker T. Washington, and the elevation of DuBois as the leading voice of the black community. Consequential national events were the WWII, Great Depression, FDR’s New Deal and push-back from Georgia officials against on progressive reforms of the FDR administration intended to improve the conditions of blacks. The School moved forward under the directorships of E. Franklin Frazier and Forrester B. Washington, both of whom brought a strong black perspective to curriculum development.Less
In establishing context, this chapter examines the ways in which the system of enslavement continues to influence economic and well-being outcomes for black Atlantans. Events covered include the emergence of “Sweet Auburn Avenue,” the death of Booker T. Washington, and the elevation of DuBois as the leading voice of the black community. Consequential national events were the WWII, Great Depression, FDR’s New Deal and push-back from Georgia officials against on progressive reforms of the FDR administration intended to improve the conditions of blacks. The School moved forward under the directorships of E. Franklin Frazier and Forrester B. Washington, both of whom brought a strong black perspective to curriculum development.
Christopher Robert Reed
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037023
- eISBN:
- 9780252094392
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037023.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter examines the local historical context of the Black Chicago Renaissance. It discusses the existence of a layered class structure within the black community, and underscores the importance ...
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This chapter examines the local historical context of the Black Chicago Renaissance. It discusses the existence of a layered class structure within the black community, and underscores the importance and the complicated tradition of support of the arts by elite black and later members of the black entrepreneurial and professional middle class. Black patronage, for both aesthetic and exploitative reasons, served an important function in providing space for creative expression and the means for its distribution and commoditization. Furthermore, the chapter is a response to the claims made by social scientists Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier. In 1923, Johnson declared that Chicago's intellectual life had numerous excuses for not existing. In 1929, Fraser echoed Johnson's assertion, insisting that Chicago had no intelligentsia.Less
This chapter examines the local historical context of the Black Chicago Renaissance. It discusses the existence of a layered class structure within the black community, and underscores the importance and the complicated tradition of support of the arts by elite black and later members of the black entrepreneurial and professional middle class. Black patronage, for both aesthetic and exploitative reasons, served an important function in providing space for creative expression and the means for its distribution and commoditization. Furthermore, the chapter is a response to the claims made by social scientists Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier. In 1923, Johnson declared that Chicago's intellectual life had numerous excuses for not existing. In 1929, Fraser echoed Johnson's assertion, insisting that Chicago had no intelligentsia.
Gregory D. Smithers
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813042381
- eISBN:
- 9780813043012
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813042381.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
An historical discussion of how African American scholars responded to the historical writing of white professional historians and how they crafted their own narratives of slavery.
An historical discussion of how African American scholars responded to the historical writing of white professional historians and how they crafted their own narratives of slavery.
Melissa L. Cooper
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469632681
- eISBN:
- 9781469632704
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632681.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter explores the 1920s and 1930s "voodoo craze" by examing the way that negative ideas about "Africa" and "Africans" during these years, and the prevelance of the common association between ...
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This chapter explores the 1920s and 1930s "voodoo craze" by examing the way that negative ideas about "Africa" and "Africans" during these years, and the prevelance of the common association between Africa and spiritual primitivism (superstitions, the belief in black magic, and dark rituals) became a prominent theme in assessments of Gullah folk's African connection. Using newspapers that circulated in popular migration destinations, films, plays, and travel writers' accounts to trace popular ideas about African survivals, this chapter charts a mounting obsession with southern black voodoo and superstition that reenergizes the debate over African survivals in the academe.Less
This chapter explores the 1920s and 1930s "voodoo craze" by examing the way that negative ideas about "Africa" and "Africans" during these years, and the prevelance of the common association between Africa and spiritual primitivism (superstitions, the belief in black magic, and dark rituals) became a prominent theme in assessments of Gullah folk's African connection. Using newspapers that circulated in popular migration destinations, films, plays, and travel writers' accounts to trace popular ideas about African survivals, this chapter charts a mounting obsession with southern black voodoo and superstition that reenergizes the debate over African survivals in the academe.
Ted Ownby
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469647005
- eISBN:
- 9781469647029
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469647005.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter compares discussions of family problems among African Americans and whites in the American South in the early 1900s. Both African American and white southerners discussed an ongoing ...
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This chapter compares discussions of family problems among African Americans and whites in the American South in the early 1900s. Both African American and white southerners discussed an ongoing crisis among African Americans, with considerable disagreement about whether they should explain that crisis, fix the problems that caused it, or pass laws to protect white people against the consequences. By contrast, white southerners imagined that most whites had stable family lives, especially when they lived on farms, and perhaps needed occasional reform movements to address specific problems.Less
This chapter compares discussions of family problems among African Americans and whites in the American South in the early 1900s. Both African American and white southerners discussed an ongoing crisis among African Americans, with considerable disagreement about whether they should explain that crisis, fix the problems that caused it, or pass laws to protect white people against the consequences. By contrast, white southerners imagined that most whites had stable family lives, especially when they lived on farms, and perhaps needed occasional reform movements to address specific problems.
David A. Varel
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781469660967
- eISBN:
- 9781469660981
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660967.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter chronicles Reddick’s early life from his adolescence in Jacksonville, Florida to his collegiate career in Nashville, Tennessee. It explains how Fisk University, where he earned a BA in ...
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This chapter chronicles Reddick’s early life from his adolescence in Jacksonville, Florida to his collegiate career in Nashville, Tennessee. It explains how Fisk University, where he earned a BA in 1932 and an MA in 1933 while studying under Charles S. Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Horace Mann Bond, and Arturo Schomburg, provided Reddick with the social network and intellectual training that guided his early entry into professional academic life. At Fisk, he became active in Carter G. Woodson’s Association for the Study of Negro Life and History; published in the Journal of Negro Education, The Crisis, and Opportunity; criticized the Southern Agrarians, and studied the racism in history textbooks. This chapter also explains how the Great Depression loomed large in Reddick’s formative years and pushed his politics to the left.Less
This chapter chronicles Reddick’s early life from his adolescence in Jacksonville, Florida to his collegiate career in Nashville, Tennessee. It explains how Fisk University, where he earned a BA in 1932 and an MA in 1933 while studying under Charles S. Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Horace Mann Bond, and Arturo Schomburg, provided Reddick with the social network and intellectual training that guided his early entry into professional academic life. At Fisk, he became active in Carter G. Woodson’s Association for the Study of Negro Life and History; published in the Journal of Negro Education, The Crisis, and Opportunity; criticized the Southern Agrarians, and studied the racism in history textbooks. This chapter also explains how the Great Depression loomed large in Reddick’s formative years and pushed his politics to the left.
David A. Varel
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226534886
- eISBN:
- 9780226534916
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226534916.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
The seventh chapter examines Davis’s work as part of the Department of Education at the University of Chicago in the 1940s. It explains the productive interdisciplinary research he conducted ...
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The seventh chapter examines Davis’s work as part of the Department of Education at the University of Chicago in the 1940s. It explains the productive interdisciplinary research he conducted alongside Ralph Tyler, Robert Havighurst, Lloyd Warner, and many others as part of Chicago’s Committee on Human Development and other organizations. In this period, Davis developed his most significant social thought, which drew from his culture-and-personality orientation to posit class as a type of culture, or learning environment. While most American theorists had turned away from class analyses, Davis continued to explore the deep-seated class divisions within the United States, particularly as they characterized the family, the workplace, and the school. In many ways, his analyses and accomplishments matched those of prominent black sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. In addition to publishing many articles in esteemed journals, Davis released Father of the Man (1947), which explained to a public audience the implications of class divisions for the rearing of children. His work related to the intercultural education movement had the most enduring impact.Less
The seventh chapter examines Davis’s work as part of the Department of Education at the University of Chicago in the 1940s. It explains the productive interdisciplinary research he conducted alongside Ralph Tyler, Robert Havighurst, Lloyd Warner, and many others as part of Chicago’s Committee on Human Development and other organizations. In this period, Davis developed his most significant social thought, which drew from his culture-and-personality orientation to posit class as a type of culture, or learning environment. While most American theorists had turned away from class analyses, Davis continued to explore the deep-seated class divisions within the United States, particularly as they characterized the family, the workplace, and the school. In many ways, his analyses and accomplishments matched those of prominent black sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. In addition to publishing many articles in esteemed journals, Davis released Father of the Man (1947), which explained to a public audience the implications of class divisions for the rearing of children. His work related to the intercultural education movement had the most enduring impact.