Arthur F. Raper

Arthur Franklin Raper (8 November 1899 – 10 August 1979) was an American sociologist.[1][2]

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 a PhD at Chapel Hill, under the direction of Howard W. Odum, and completed it in 1931.[1][3] He is best known for his research on lynching, sharecropping, and rural development.

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 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][4] He exposed sharecropping as exploitative.[1][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 (the reviews can be found in their archives).

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Georgia Encyclopedia biography
  2. 1 2 Digital library of Georgia
  3. ↑ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill museum
  4. ↑ Georgia encyclopedia sharecropping

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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