50th Anniversary Edition
of Caste, Class and Race
RACE: A STUDY IN SOCIAL DYNAMICS
by
Oliver Cromwell Cox
New Introduction by Adolph Reed, Jr.
“The Life and Career of Oliver C. Cox”
by Herbert M. Hunter
"I welcome this
new edition of Oliver Cromwell Cox's brilliant work. Published amid Cold War
repression and postwar racist violence, and kept in print by Monthly Review
Press ever since, it is as fresh and urgent as ever. It stands not only as one
of the most incisive materialist analyses of race and racism but as a true
classic in the sociology of race."—
ROBIN D.G. KELLEY, New
York University
"This touchstone
book is second only to Gunnar Myrdal's American Dilemma as a classic in
the field." —
WERNER SOLLORS, Harvard
University
First published in 1948, this pioneering work investigates how racism began
and why it remains a persistent problem in the United States, tracing racial
inequality to the social and economic system that generates it.
Race, the unexpurgated final section of Caste, Class, and
Race, makes a touchstone work accessible to a new generation. Two major
contemporary intellectuals, Adolph Reed and Herbert M. Hunter, offer commentary
on the study's lasting importance.
Contents
Introduction to Oliver
C. Cox by Adolph Reed, Jr.
The Life and Career
of Oliver C. Cox by Herbert M. Hunter
The Concept of Race
Relations:
An Introduction to Caste, Class, and Race
1. Race
Relations—Its Meaning, Beginning, and Progress
2. Situations of Race
Relations
3. Race Prejudice,
Intolerance, and Nationalism
4. Race and
Caste
5. The Meaning of
Heredity and Outcasting in Caste
and Race Relations
6. The New Orthodoxy
in Theories of Race Relations
7. The Modern Caste
School of Race Relations
8. An American
Dilemma: A Mythical Approach to the Study
of Race Relations
9. The Area of Caste
Society and Practcal Value of the Concept
10. The Race Problem
in the United States
Bibliography
Index
About the Author and
Contributors
OLIVER
CROMWELL COX (1901-1974) was born in Trinidad, received an M.A. in
economics and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago, and taught
at Wiley College, the Tuskegee Institute, Lincoln University, and Wayne State
University.
ADOLPH
REED, JR. is professor of political science at New School University
and the author of W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought (1997),
and Stirrings in the Jug(1999).
HERBERT
M. HUNTER is professor of sociology at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania and the author of Race, Class, and the World System: The
Sociology of Oliver C. Cox and The Sociology of Oliver C. Cox: New
Perspectives.
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