Cox's Race Relations in America

Cox wrote of park and the others as paternalistic white liberals to whom fraser remained subserviently faithful. But it is worth noting that 19 forty eight, the year that cox published cast class and race, was the same year that fraser became the first black president of the american sociological association. Cox objected to the analogy on a number of grounds, but at bottom, his fundamental concern was to distinguish caste in india as a pre modern and religious form of social stratification from the racial subordination of african America. He therefore summarizes the problem of raceism in 19 forties america this way. Today, the ruling class in the south effectively controls legislation