St. Clair Drake

John Gibbs St. Clair Drake (January 2, 1911 – June 15, 1990) was an African-American sociologist and anthropologist. Quotes The very use of the term Black Studies is by implication an indictment of American and Western European scholarship. It makes bold assertion that what we have heretofore called ‘Objective’ intellectual activities were actually white studies in perspective and content; and that a corrective bias, a shift in emphasis, is needed, even if something called ‘truth’ is set as the goal. To use a technical sociological term, the present body of knowledge has an ideological element in it, and a counterideology is needed. Black Studies supply that counterideology. 1969 address to Brooklyn College, as cited in Marable, Manning. 2000. “Black Studies and the Racial Mountain.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 2, no. 3, p. 21. External links Category:1911 births Category:1990 deaths Category:People from Virginia Category:African Americans Category:Academics from the United States Category:Anthropologists from the United States Category:Sociologists from the United States Category:Civil rights activists Category:Activists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States