Lost Black Scholar
Lost Black Scholar Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and…
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Lost Black Scholar
Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing. Board of Education, the federal Head Start program, and school testing practices. Davis, one of America's first black anthropologists and the first tenured African American professor at a predominantly white university, produced work that had tangible and lasting effects on public policy, including contributions to Brown v.
For someone who generated such an extensive body of work this marginalization is particularly surprising. Yet Davis remains largely absent from the historical record. But it is also revelatory.In The Lost Black Scholar, David A.
Varel tells Davis's compelling story, showing how a combination of institutional racism,