Racial Self-Expression

Racial Self-Expression

In "Racial Self-Expression," E. Franklin Frazier (1894-1962) turned to anthropology and sociology to contextualize the two sides of the debate, one seeking "to efface Negroid characteristics," the other to glorify "things black." Frazier graduated from Howard University and received an M.A. in sociology from Clark University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. From 1934 to 1959 he led the sociology department at Howard. During a distinguished career he published important research that challenged racial stereotypes. Frazier locates the source of the "effacement-glorification" conflict in the typical behavior of nationalistic groups (Franklin Frazier, E. 1927).

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