John Dollard: Caste and Class revisited.(Interview)(Interview)

John Dollard's Caste and Class in a Southern Town was first published in 1937 and offers a thoughtful view from the psychologist's perspective of how caste and class shaped race relations in the Deep South. Dollard's interest in class was influenced by William Lloyd Warner, a sociologist and anthropologist who applied class structure to sociological studies of American society in works like his Social Class in America (1949).

Dollard spent five months in Indianola, Mississippi, doing field research for his study. Anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker had done research in Indianola ...

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