Tag: Everett V. Stonequist

  • Robert Park’s Marginal Man: The Career of a Concept in American Sociology Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research ISSN 2076-8214 (print) ISSN 2078-1938 (online) Volume 4, Number 2 (2012) pages 199-217 Chad Alan Goldberg, Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Who now reads Robert Park? The answer, it turns out, is that many still…

  • Toni Morrison and the Evolution of American Biracial Identity Occidental College Oxy Scholar: ECLS Student Scholarship Submisions for 2009 2008-12-10 17 pages Emily Isenberg She enchanted the entire school. When teachers called on her, they smiled encouragingly. Black boys didn’t trip her in the halls; white boys didn’t stone her, white girls didn’t suck their…

  • Stonequist’s Concept of “The Marginal Man” in Langston Hughes’ Play Mulatto International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature ISSN 2200-3592 (Print), ISSN 2200-3452 (Online) Volume 1, Number 4 (September 2012) pages 125-130 Farshid Nowrouzi Roshnavand University of Tehran, Iran Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh, Assistant Professor of Letters and Humanities Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran Born…

  • The Problem of the Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 1 (July 1935) Pages 1-12 DOI: 10.1086/217001 Everett V. Stonequist (1901-1979), Professor of Sociology Skidmore College The marginal man arises in a bi-cultural or multi-cultural situation.  The natural desire of the mixed-blood is to advance toward the group occupying the higher status.  He…