The Location of Franz Boas within the African-American Struggle
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1. Logan alludes to this argument. He suggests that President Harrison's appeal for Negro suffrage and education was an attempt to alleviate 'the prejudices and paralysis of slavery [which] continue to hang upon the skirts of progress'. Employing this type of rhetorical strategy Harrison argued that concessions should be given to Negroes. If they were not given, Harrison feared, Negroes would fall prey to the Farmers Alliance or the Socialists. Logan argues that Harrison's views were precursors for the overwhelming acceptance of Washing ton (Logan, 1972: 64).
2. The collection of professional correspondence of Franz Boas is held at the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, hereafter (APS).
3. Quoting Diggs, Harrison (1992:242) suggests that both the method and theoretical point of view in such classic studies as Franz Boas's The Mind of Pnmitive Man (1911), W. I. Thomas and Znaniecki's Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918-1921), W. Lloyd Wamer's school of community studies at Harvard and Chicago, St Clair Drake's Black Metropolis as well as the classic Yankee City series are all found in The Philadelphia Negro (Du Bois, 1967) on which the Atlanta Studies were based. Monteiro (1990: 22), Baltzell (1967: xxvi) and Baker (1990: 24) each contend that Boas's chapter in The Mind of Primitive Man entitled 'The Race Problem in Modem Society' was influenced by Du Bois's Philadelphia Negro (1967) and the Atlanta Studies.
4. For example, M.F. Ashley-Montagu's text 'Origins, Composition and Physical Characteristics of the American Negro Population' was used to explain racial equality. However, Herskovits's texts on the African continuites in African- American culture were side-lined.
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