Oliver Cromwell Cox

In many ways, Oliver Cromwell Cox's academic career was similar to those of other Black sociologists; however, his experiences, given his perspectives and their time and place, were unique. Like any other major Black sociologist, similar to Charles S. Johnson or E. Franklin Frazier, Cox endured the stigma of skin color produced by White supremacy. Yet Cox's approach differs markedly from the conciliatory sociological approach of Johnson's (1941) work or the more liberal/integrationist approach of the work of Frazier (Metzger, 1971; van den Berghe, 1981). Charles U. Smith and Lewis Killian suggested in their essay on Black sociologists and social protest that