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E. Franklin Frazier
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E. Franklin Frazier

sociologist, university teacher, writer, historian

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1894  – 1962

Edward Franklin Frazier, was an American sociologist and author, publishing as E. Franklin Frazier. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation was published as a book titled The Negro Family in the United States (1939); it analyzed the historical forces that influenced the development of the African-American family from the time of slavery to the mid-1930s. The book was awarded the 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for the most significant work in the field of race relations. It was among the first sociological works on Black people researched and written by a black person.

All Quotes by E. Franklin Frazier

“Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.”
— E. Franklin Frazier
“Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.”
— E. Franklin Frazier
“When the opportunity has been present, the black bourgeoisie has exploited the Negro masses as ruthlessly as have whites. As the intellectual leaders in the Negro community, they have never dared think beyond a narrow, opportunistic philosophy that provided a rationalization for their own advantages.”
— E. Franklin Frazier
“The single factor that has dominated the mental outlook of the black bourgeoisie has been its obsession with the struggle for status.”
— E. Franklin Frazier