In 1946 St. Clair Drake received a tenured teaching appointment at Roosevelt College (now university). 1. by on June 21, 2020. Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Addeddate 2017-01-25 16:35:13 Identifier in.ernet.dli.2015.7040 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3131b624 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ppi 600 Scanner Internet Archive Python library 1.2.0.dev4 We'll publish them on our site once we've reviewed them. Drake … St. Clair Drake (1911-1990) and Horace R. Cayton, Jr. (1903-1970) will forever be bound together for their collaboration on the groundbreaking Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945). Both authors had former experience in research and field work. Black Metropolis. IN COLLECTIONS. By St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton.

eBook Details. by St. Clair Drake,Horace R. Cayton. You submitted the following rating and review. Books for People with Print Disabilities. But the racism he sought to avoid pursued him even into Greenwich Village, where he had purchased a home. Drake was born in Suffolk, Virginia, graduated from Hampton Institute and enrolled at the University of Chicago focusing on the sociology and cultural anthropology of black Chicago.

The latter study received the Ainsfiled-Wolf award in 1945 as one of the years’ two best books on race relations in an American city. While at Roosevelt he helped create their African American Studies program. Books to Borrow. John Gibbs St. Clair Drake (1911–90) was a sociologist and anthropologist who founded African American Studies programs at Roosevelt University and Stanford University. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, authored by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Jr., is an anthropological and sociological study of the African-American urban experience in the first half of the 20th century.

His books included Social Work in West Africa, Race Relations in a Time of Rapid Social Change, and Black Religion and the Redemption of Africa. In 1946 St. Clair Drake received a tenured … Published in 1945, later expanded editions added some material relating to the 1950s and 1960s. 1.

Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers in the late 1930s, it is a historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side, the classic urban ghetto.

BLACK METROPOLIS. Write your review. Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. St. Clair Drake (1911-1990) and Horace R. Cayton, Jr. (1903-1970) will forever be bound together for their collaboration on the groundbreaking Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945). Black Metropolis was initially a Works Prog-ress Administration project in collaboration with Lloyd Warner to use the money coming … Thanks for Sharing!