89. Separate but Unequal: E. Franklin Frazier

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Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier critiques the Harlem Renaissance and the “black bourgeoisie” for failing to embrace values that will empower black Americans.

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Further Reading

E.F. Frazier, The Negro in the United States (New York: 1951).

E.F. Frazier, Black Bourgeoisie (New York: 1957).

E.F. Frazier, The Negro Family in the United States (Chicago: 1966).

E.F. Frazier, The Negro Church in America (New York: 1974).

E.F. Frazier, Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World (New York: 1978).

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• K. Gaines, “E. Franklin Frazier’s Revenge: Anticolonialism, Nonalignment, and Black Intellectuals’ Critiques of Western Culture,” American Literary History 17 (2005), 506-29.

• J.S. Holloway, Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (Chapel Hill: 2002).

• B. Landry, “A Reinterpretation of the Writings of Frazier on the Black Middle Class,” Social Problems 26 (1978), 211-22.

• A.M. Platt, E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered (New Brunswick: 1991).

• P. Saint-Arnaud, African-American Pioneers of Sociology: a Critical History, trans. P. Feldstein (Toronto: 2009), ch.6.

• J.E. Teele (ed.), E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie (Columbia: 2002).

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