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American sociologist
Arthur Franklin Raper (8 November 1899 – 10 August 1979) was an American
sociologist .
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[2]
[3] He is best known for his research on
lynching ,
sharecropping , and rural development.
Life and career
Raper grew up in
Davidson County, North Carolina and attended the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .
[1] He received an M.A. in
Sociology from
Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee .
[1] In 1925, he started his PhD at Chapel Hill, under the direction of
Howard W. Odum , and completed it in 1931.
[1]
[4]
In 1926, he worked for the
Commission on Interracial Cooperation with
Will W. Alexander in
Atlanta, Georgia .
[1] He later taught at
Agnes Scott College in
Decatur, Georgia .
[1] In 1927 he produced a report on the conditions of African Americans in Tampa, Florida with
Benjamin Elijah Mays .
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In 1939, he resigned after a furor over taking his students to visit the
Tuskegee Institute .
[1] He studied and wrote about
sharecropping in
Macon County and
Greene County .
[1]
[6] He exposed sharecropping as exploitative.
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[2] His papers are in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Library; four of his books were reviewed by
The New York Times .
A collection of Raper's materials are housed at the Special Collections Research Center at Fenwick Library at
George Mason University .
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Bibliography
Preface to Peasantry (University of North Carolina Press, 1936);
excerpts ;
Online free to borrow
Sharecroppers All (University of North Carolina Press, 1941, co-authored with
Ira De Augustine Reid )
Tenants of the Almighty (University of North Carolina Press, 1943)
Raper, Arthur F.; Han-sheng Chuan; Shao-hsing Chen (1954).
Urban and Industrial Taiwan―Crowded and Resourceful . Taipei: Good Earth Press.
OCLC
1686127 .
Rural Development in Action (Cornell University Press, 1970)
"Some Effects of Land Reform in 13 Japanese Villages," Journal of Farm Economics (Vol. 33, No. 2, May 1951)
"Old Conflicts in the New South," by Ira De Augustine Reid and Arthur Raper, Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1940.
References
Further reading
Mazzari, Louis. 2003. "Arthur Raper and Documentary Realism in Greene County, Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 87, no. 3/4: 389-407.
Southern Modernist: Arthur Raper from the New Deal to the Cold War , by Louis Mazzari (Louisiana State University Press, 2006)
The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 , by Daniel Joseph Singal (University of North Carolina Press, 1982)
Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960 , by Jack Temple Kirby (Louisiana State University Press, 1987)
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South by John Egerton (University of North Carolina Press, 1994)
"Arthur Raper," by Clifford M. Kuhn, in Encyclopedia of the Great Depression , edited by Robert S. Mcllvaine (Thomson-Gale, 2004)
" Arthur Raper." The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 20: Social Class, edited by Larry J. Griffin, et al.
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