The Negro Family in the United States

Edward Franklin Frazier (1894–1962) was an American sociologist and author renowned for his pioneering studies on African-American family and social structures. His seminal work, The Negro Family in the United States (1939), won the 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was among the first sociological analyses of Black families by a Black scholar; he also critiqued the Black middle class in Black Bourgeoisie (1957). Frazier became the first African American president of the American Sociological Association in 1948 and taught at Howard University for nearly three decades. Read more →