Table of Contents
Preface xi
Introduction 3
Part 1 Anglo-American Sociology and the Race Question 13
1 From the Civil War to the First World War 15
Sociological Theories of Race 22
From Biological Racism to Cultural Racism 36
From Race Problem to Race Relations 40
2 The Rise of the Chicago School 45
Origins of a Scientific Hothouse: 1892-1914 47
The Parkian Era 49
Park's Theory of Race Relations 54
Alternative Positions in the Interwar Period 76
Park versus Warner: The Outcome of a Dispute 82
3 From the Second World War to the 1960s 85
The Sociopolitical Landscape 85
Race Relations after the War 88
An American Dilemma 90
Scholarly Reactions to Myrdal 103
Part 2 The Genesis of African American Sociology, 1896-1964 117
4 W.E.B. Du Bois: Scientific Sociology and Exclusion 121
Early Works 125
The Philadelphia Negro 131
Sources of Du Bois's Innovation 140
The Institution Builder 144
Controversy and Decline 148
A Limited Scientific Legacy 151
The Sociologist in His Time 154
5 Four 'New Negroes' 157
Johnson: The Activist as Organization Man 157
Cayton and Drake: Theorists of the Ghetto 167
Cox: Innovator and Iconoclast 186
6 Edward Franklin Frazier 204
The Committed Intellectual 208
The Emergence of a Social Scientist 212
Toward a More Radical Approach 216
The Poverty and Greatness of the Black Middle Class 225
For a Comparative World Sociology 231
The Importance of Theory 234
Frazier's Originality 246
Part 3 From Explanation to Comprehension 249
Two Sociologies, One Society 250
Breaking Down the Barriers: Racism in Academia 271
The Solace of Culture 285
Postface: Imagining a Different History295
Notes 299
Bibliography 345
Index 371