Arthur F. Raper

Arthur Franklin Raper (8 November 1899 – 10 August 1979) was an American sociologist.[1][2] He is best known for his research on lynching, sharecropping, and rural development.

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]

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 1927 he produced a report on the conditions of "Negros" in Tampa, Florida with Benjamin Elijah Mays.[4]

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][5] 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).

A collection of Raper's materials and reports are house at the Special Collections Research Center at Fenwick Library at George Mason University.

Bibliography

References
  1. Fincher, Matthew L. (5 August 2013). "Arthur F. Raper (1899-1979)". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  2. Fincher, Matthew L. (November 19, 2002). "Arthur F. Raper (1899-1979)". dlg.galileo.usg.edu.
  3. "Log In · Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History". museum.unc.edu.
  4. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/326639
  5. Giesen, James C. (28 August 2019). "Sharecropping". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 August 2020.

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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