Horace R. Clayton

Horace R. Clayton

Horace R. Clayton was a prominent American sociologist [Cite book|last = Roediger|first=David R.|title=The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class|publisher=Verso; Revised edition|ISBN=1859842402|date=1999] known for his studies of working class black Americans, particularly in mid-twentieth century Chicago, Illinois. Clayton was born in Seattle, Washington and moved to Chicago in 1929 to study sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the coauthor, with St. Clair Drake, of the 1945 "Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City" (introduction by Richard Wright), a history of Chicago's South Side and its black residents from the 1840s, when the area was a major transport hub for the Underground Railroad, to the 1930s. [Cite book|last=Drake|first=St. Clair|title=Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City|date=1945] The book was considered pioneering in its exploration of the role race relations played in creating the economic situation of lower and middle class blacks in urban America. [Cite book|last=Bullard|first=Robert D.|title=The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and Politics of Place|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.|date=2007|ISBN=0742543293] [Cite web|last=Overybey|first=Mary Margaret|coauthors=Kathryn Marie Dudley, editors|title=Anthropology and Middle Class Working Families: A Research Agenda Edited|url=http://www.aaanet.org/publications/pubs/upload/mcwf.pdf|publisher=American Anthropological Association] Clayton is also the coauthor, with George S. Mitchell, of a work on the roles early 20th century unions played in the economic situation of blacks, "Black Workers and the New Unions". [Cite book|last=Clayton|first=Horace R.|coauthors=George S. Mitchell|title=Black Workers and the New Unions|publisher=Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press|date=1939]

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