St. Clair Drake
1911 – 1990
16 works on record
Biography
John Gibbs St. Clair Drake, known simply as St. Clair Drake, was an American urban sociologist and anthropologist whose scholarship and activism focused on the racism and racial tensions of the mid-twentieth century. Born in Virginia in 1911, he first studied biology at Hampton Institute, then completed a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Chicago. Drake then became one of the first Black faculty members at Roosevelt University. After working there for 23 years, he left to found the African and African American Studies program at Stanford University. -thoughtco
Works
Black metropolis
1945
Churches and voluntary associations in the Chicago Negro community
Black Folk Here and There
Being Somebody and Black Besides
Being Somebody and Black Besides
Black Metropolis--Volume I
Black Metropolis--Volume II
The redemption of Africa and Black religion
The redemption of Africa and Black religion
St. Clair Drake collection of Africana
St. Clair Drake collection of Africana
Black Folk Here and There
Black Folk Here and There
Our urban poor
Our urban poor
Race relations in a time of rapid social change
Race relations in a time of rapid social change
Black Folk Here and There
Value systems, social structure and race relations in the British Isles
Value systems, social structure and race relations in the British Isles
The American dream and the Negro
The American dream and the Negro
The redemption of Africa and Black religion
The social and economic status of the negro in the United States
The social and economic status of the negro in the United States