The Negro American
Published as a double issue of the Academy鈥檚 journal, 顿忙诲补濒耻蝉, this study is a comprehensive survey of the problems and the status of Blacks in American society, a topic of great urgency at the time. The resulting volume has been considered seminal in explaining the complexities and implications of racial problems in the United States in the 1960s.
The Negro American
Published as a double issue of the Academy鈥檚 journal, 顿忙诲补濒耻蝉, this study is a comprehensive survey of the problems and the status of African-Americans in American society. As President Lyndon B. Johnson wrote in the foreword of the volume, 鈥淣othing is of greater significance to the welfare and vitality of this nation than the movement to secure equal rights for Negro Americans.鈥 The 顿忙诲补濒耻蝉 issues were critically acclaimed and well received. The Academy later followed with a comprehensive bibliography of research and writings on the Negro American experience.
Resulting Publications
- The Negro American, ed. Talcott Parsons and Kenneth B. Clark, with foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company and the 亚色影库app, 1967. (out of print)
- The Negro in America: A Bibliography, first edition, by Elizabeth W. Miller. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. (out of print)
- The Negro in America: A Bibliography, Second Revised and Enlarged Edition, by Elizabeth W. Miller and Mary L. Fisher. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. (out of print)
Project Data
- PROJECT DATE: 1965-1967
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Kenneth B. Clark (City College of New York) and Talcott Parsons (Harvard University)
- SOURCES OF FUNDING: Carnegie Corporation of New York, American Academy