Research Catalog

Title

St. Clair Drake papers, 1935-1990.

Author

Drake, St. Clair.

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Additional Authors

• Bailey, Ronald.
• Birmingham, Walter.
• Barnett, Claude, 1889-1967.
• Roberts, Robert, 1905-1974.
• Bond, Horace Mann, 1904-1972.
• Jordan, Glenn H.
• Busia, K. A. (Kofi Abrefa)
• Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970.
• Cromwell, Adelaide M.
• Harrison, Faye Venetia.
• Moody, Harold.
• Koinange-wa-Mbiyu.
• Gatheru, R. Mugo, 1925-
• Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984.
• Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995.
• Smythe, Hugh H. (Hugh Heyne), 1913-1977.
• Tetteh, John K.
• Untermeyer, Frank.
• Walker, Sheila S.
• Association of Black Anthropologists.
• League of Coloured Peoples.

Description

48 lin. ft. (27 cartons, 76 boxes).

Summary

• Divided into 18 series and spanning the years 1935 to 1990, the collection documents Drake's career as an educator and social anthropologist in the United States, Liberia, Great Britain and Ghana, and consists for the most part of correspondence, writings, office files and research materials.
• Research materials in the collection include a series of interviews and records of participants-observers in a survey of churches and voluntary associations in New Orleans, gathered by students and research assistants at Dillard University under the direction of Allison Davis and Drake in 1937; interview material, participant-observer records and printed matter on race relations and community life in Chicago; writings, field notes and documents of black social service organizations relating to black life in the British Isles; and correspondence, curriculum material, research notes, office files and printed matter related to education and social life in Ghana and the development of a new town and modern harbor in the old fishing village of Tema. Smaller bodies of material relate to Liberia, Kenya, Somalia, India, the U.S. Peace Corps in Africa, and to a survey of mass communications in tropical Africa.

Subject

• Drake, St. Clair
• Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
• Davis, Alison, 1902-
• Binga, Jesse
• Stanford University. African and Afro-American Studies Program
• Peace Corps (U.S.). Africa Region
• University of Ghana. Sociology Dept
• American Committee on Africa
• American Society of African Culture
• Woodlawn Organization
• Tema Corporation
• Dillard University
• Roosevelt University
• University of Liberia
• African Studies Association
• Harbors > Ghana
• African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions
• Race relations > Study and teaching
• Black people > Study and teaching
• African Americans > Study and teaching
• Mass media > Africa
• Black people and mass media > Africa
• Communication > Africa
• Black people > Caribbean Area > History
• Black people > West Indies > History
• Miscegenation > Great Britain
• Black people > Great Britain
• Universities and colleges > Ghana
• Sociology, Urban > Ghana
• Gã (African people) > Social conditions
• African diaspora
• Slave rebellions
• Pan-Africanism
• Urban renewal > Illinois > Chicago
• Community development > Illinois > Chicago
• African Americans > Housing > Illinois > Chicago
• Discrimination in housing > Illinois > Chicago
• Minorities > Illinois > Illinois > Chicago
• Housing policy > Illinois > Chicago Metropolitan Area
• Tema (Ghana)
• Ghana > Politics and government
• Ghana > History > Coup d'état, 1966
• United States > Race relations
• Southern States > Race relations
• Horn of Africa
• Caribbean Area > History
• Great Britain > Race relations
• Barbados > History
• Africa > Civilization
• Kenwood (Chicago, Ill.)
• Hyde Park (Ill.)
• Cardiff (Wales)

Note

• Photographs and recordings transferred to the Photographs and Prints and the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Divisions.

Source (note)

• Drake, St. Clair

Biography (note)

• Born in 1911, St. Clair Drake was an educator and social anthropologist who taught sociology at Roosevelt and Stanford Universities and at the Universities of Liberia and Ghana.

Processing Action (note)

• Processed.
• Catalogued.

Call Number

Sc MG 309

OCLC

NYPW98-A406

Author

Drake, St. Clair.

Title

St. Clair Drake papers, 1935-1990.

Biography

Born in 1911, St. Clair Drake was an educator and social anthropologist who taught sociology at Roosevelt and Stanford Universities and at the Universities of Liberia and Ghana. His study of social life in the Caribbean and West Africa and in the black communities of Chicago and Great Britain spanned the 1930s to the 1980. His major study of Blacks in Chicago, Black Metropolis, written in collaboration with Horace Cayton, was published in 1945. A prolific lecturer and author, his many articles and essays appeared in books and in scholarly and non-scholarly journals in the United States and in Africa. At the time of his death in 1990, he had been working for several years on a voluminous manuscript entitled "Africa and the Black Diaspora," several chapters of which exist in final form.

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Added Author

Bailey, Ronald.

Birmingham, Walter.

Barnett, Claude, 1889-1967.

Roberts, Robert, 1905-1974.

Bond, Horace Mann, 1904-1972.

Jordan, Glenn H.

Busia, K. A. (Kofi Abrefa)

Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970.

Cromwell, Adelaide M.

Harrison, Faye Venetia.

Moody, Harold.

Koinange-wa-Mbiyu.

Gatheru, R. Mugo, 1925-

Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995.

Smythe, Hugh H. (Hugh Heyne), 1913-1977.

Tetteh, John K.

Untermeyer, Frank.

Walker, Sheila S.

Association of Black Anthropologists.

League of Coloured Peoples.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 309