An African American Anthropologist in Wales: St. Clair Drake and the Transatlantic Ecologies of Race Relations

• Published in: The Journal of British studies Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 167 - 198
• Main Author: Connell, Kieran
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 2024
• Subjects: Original Manuscript

In summer 1947, African American anthropologist John Gibbs St. Clair Drake arrived in Tiger Bay, the port neighborhood of Cardiff in South Wales, to begin field work for his doctoral thesis, “Race Relations in the British Isles.” Drake's academic reputation had already been established by the p...