- African Americans, Blacks, Chicago, Economic conditions
Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton
- First published
- 1945
- Pages
- 809
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace And Company, Harper & Row, Cape
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780226253213
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“America is known by her big cities, those amazing congeries of people and houses, offices and factories, which constitute the nerve centers of our civilization, the ganglia of our collective being.”
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
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