Frank H. Hankins

Frank Hamilton Hankins (September 27, 1877 in Willshire, Ohio[1] – January 24, 1970 in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) was an American sociologist and anthropologist who was the president of the American Sociological Society in 1938. He wrote the book The Racial Basis of Civilization (1926) which was critical of racial theories such as Aryanism, Gobinism, Celticism, Anglo-Saxonism and Nordicism.[2]

In 1933 he was one of signers of the Humanist Manifesto.[3]

Works
  • Adolphe Quetelet as Statistician (1908)
  • The Racial Basis of Civilization: A Critique of the Nordic Doctrine (1926)
  • An Introduction to the Study of Society: An Outline of Primary Factors and Fundamental Institutions (1928)
  • Reminiscences of Frank Hamilton Hankins(1968)

References
  1. Hankins, Frank Hamilton – Smithipedia
  2. Calcutta Review. University of Calcutta Press. 1929. He vigorously attacks the doctrines of race-superiority embodied in Aryanism, Gobinism, Teutonism, Celticism, Anglo-Saxonism and Nordicism Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "Humanist Manifesto I". American Humanist Association. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
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