Racial and Cultural Minorities

George Eaton Simpson (1904-1998) was an American sociologist and anthropologist renowned for his studies on Caribbean religions and racial minorities, authoring over 60 works including Religious Cults of the Caribbean, Black Religions in the New World, and Racial and Cultural Minorities: An Analysis of Prejudice and Discrimination co-authored with J. Milton Yinger, for which they received the 1958 Anisfield-Wolf Award in Race Relations. He taught at Oberlin College from 1947 to 1971, earning the Wellcome Medal for Anthropological Research and honorary doctorates from Oberlin (1976) and Coe College (1980). Read more →