{"id":1106,"date":"2014-10-02T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T19:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2014-10-02T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T20:03:27","slug":"cox-oliver-cromwell-1901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"COX, OLIVER CROMWELL, 1901-1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sociologist; university professor. Born&#8211; August 25, 1901, Trinidad, British West Indies. Parents&#8211; William Raphael and Virginia (Austin) Cox. Moved to the U.S., 1919; became an American citizen,\u00a0 July 14, 1926. Education&#8211; Northwestern University, B.S.L., 1928, University of Chicago, M.A., 1932; Ph.D. 1938. Professor; Wiley College, Marshall, Tex., 1938-1944; Tuskegee Institute, 1944-1949; Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo., 1949-1974; Wayne State University, 1970-74. Published many articles in professional journals. Member American Economics Association; American Sociological Association; National Education Association; Society for Social Research and other professional associations. Awarded LL.D. , Wiley College, 1945; George Washington Carver award in 1948 for Caste, Class, and Race. The American Sociological Association created the Oliver C. Cox Award for the best book in sociology;\u00a0 George\u00a0Washington University named a Scholarship Fund in his honor. \u00a0Died September 4, 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online; African-American Registry online; article &#8220;Oliver C. Cox: A Biographical Sketch of his Life and Work,&#8221; by Herbert M. Hunter; <em>Phylon,<\/em> vol. 44 (1983), 249-261.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Capitalism and American Leadership. New York; Philosophical Library, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Capitalism as a System. New York; Monthly Review, 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Caste, Class, and Race; a Study in Social Dynamics. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundations of Capitalism. New York; Philosophical Library, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish Self-Interest and Black Pluralism.\u00a0 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Origin of Direct-Action Protest Among Negroes. New York; Bell and Howell, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Race: A Study in Social Dynamics.\u00a0 Monthly Review\u00a0 Press, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Race Relations; Elements and Social Dynamics. Detroit; Wayne University Press, 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Sociologist; university professor. Born&#8211; August 25, 1901, Trinidad, British West Indies. Parents&#8211; William Raphael and Virginia (Austin) Cox. Moved to the U.S., 1919; became an American citizen,\u00a0 July 14, 1926. Education&#8211; Northwestern University, B.S.L., 1928, University of Chicago, M.A., 1932; Ph.D. 1938. Professor; Wiley College, Marshall, Tex., 1938-1944; Tuskegee Institute, 1944-1949; Lincoln University, Jefferson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}