THE NEGRO FAMILY IN THE UNITED STATES.
New York: Dryden Press, 1951.
Thick octavo. Cloth and boards. 372 pp. Near fine, in a typographical dust jacket that is rubbed at edges and tips. Contemporary postcard for "The Book Find Club" laid in. The Book Find Club, founded by George Braziller, was a Popular Front institution with an eclectic selection of books which principally covered the left side of the political spectrum from New Deal liberals to Stalin to social history and political exposés at reduced prices.
Revised and abridged edition. The 1939 edition of Howard University Professor E. Franklin Frazier's book, The Negro Family in the United States, was hailed as "a highly important contribution to the intimate history of the people of the United States." It was the first comprehensive study of the family life of African Americans, beginning with colonial-era slavery, extending through the years of slavery and emancipation, to the impact of Jim Crow and migrations to both southern and northern cities in the twentieth century.
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