Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth Harvard Forum of the year, a trio which includes a sociologist, a philosopher, and a former Labor Member of Parliament will discuss the degeneration of western society and culture this evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson...
...Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson had been "understanding" white folks for Negroes and Negroes for white folks much of his life. Last week, at 53, he became the first Negro president of Nashville's Fisk University...
Author Asbury's conclusions are disputed by Sociologist John H. Burma of Grinnell College, who thinks the "authorities" exaggerate. In the American Journal of Sociology he argues that the number of Negroes passing as whites is much smaller...
Facts about Negro "passing" are understandably hard to come by. Guesstimates have depended largely on a pioneering study made in 1921 by Duke University Sociologist Hornell Hart...
Fathers & Sons. A much more reliable index of Negro passing than Hart's, Burma thinks, is a study of 346 mulatto families made by Sociologist Caroline Day. She found that 10% of these families had members who had passed. Estimating that 40% of the 2,750,000 U.S. Negro families are comparable to Dr. Day's group (in their proportion of white blood), Burma figured that there are some 110,000 passers all told. His estimate of the number passing each year...