Research Catalog

Title

St. Clair Drake papers, 1935-1990.

Author

Drake, St. Clair.

Supplementary Content

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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.

Subjects

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

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