Its penetrating critique, however, led to his dismissal from the university. Frazier’s lifelong image as “harsh critic” was revealed in a scholarly essay, in a 1929 issue of Forum magazine, entitled “The Pathology of Race Prejudice.” This was his essay to examine white racism and its effects on its black victims. he accepted a position at Atlanta University as its director of social work. Best known for his critical work on the black middle class, Black Bourgeoisie (1957), Frazier was also a harsh critic of Jim Crow as the great inhibitor of the American Dream for the “American Negro.”Īfter graduating from Howard University with honors in 1916.Like many of his black contemporary scholars, Frazier used “philanthropic” funding to continue his studies at the New York School of Social Work, and overseas at the University of Copenhagen. Edward Franklin Frazier, the most prominent African American sociologist of the 20th Century, was born on Septemand died on May 17, 1962.
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