St. Clair Drake

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St. Clair Drake was an influential African American sociologist, anthropologist, and activist known for his pioneering studies of Black urban life and race relations, particularly in Chicago.

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instanceOf African American
activist
anthropologist
person
sociologist
academicDiscipline sociology of race
urban sociology
birthDate 1911-01-27
coAuthorOf Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
coAuthorWith Horace Cayton
surface form: Horace R. Cayton Jr.
deathDate 1990-06-15
educatedAt Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
surface form: Hampton Institute

University of Chicago
employer Dillard University
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
surface form: Hampton Institute

Roosevelt University
Stanford University
ethnicity African American
familyName Drake
fieldOfWork African American studies
anthropology
race relations
sociology
urban studies
fullName John Gibbs St. Clair Drake
gender male
genre social science
givenName John
knownFor activism in civil rights and anti-colonial movements
pioneering studies of Black urban life in Chicago
research on race relations
scholarship on the African diaspora
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Pan-Africanism
American civil rights movement
surface form: civil rights movement
nationality United States of America
surface form: United States
notableWork Black Folk Here and There
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
occupation university professor
placeOfBirth Suffolk, Virginia, United States
surface form: Suffolk, Virginia
placeOfDeath Palo Alto, California
positionHeld chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Roosevelt University
founding director of the Program in African and Afro-American Studies at Stanford University
studied African independence movements
Black urban communities
segregation in northern U.S. cities
taughtAt Dillard University
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
surface form: Hampton Institute

Roosevelt University
Stanford University

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