| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919–1941. By Jonathan Scott Holloway. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xxii, 290 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2678-2. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5343-7.)

This historical investigation into the thought of the economist Abram Harris Jr., the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, and the political scientist Ralph Bunche during the interwar years and beyond is thoroughly researched and clearly written. Taking to task the distinguished historians Barbara Fields and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Jonathan Scott Holloway argues that all three of the persons under scrutiny "wanted to think 'beyond race'" (p. 17). Thus, during the period from 1919 to 1941, those social scientists and activists of African American ancestry, despite the racial circumscribing of their lives and careers, pursued "class-based" solutions in a nation where "racialist thinking" was the norm. As a consequence, this trio of Howard University professors regrettably enjoyed "only limited" success—primarily because of the obdurateness of race as a "pivotal" factor in American life during the midst of the age of segregation.

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