Oliver Cox

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Oliver Cromwell Cox (born 25 October 1901 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago - died 4 September 1974) was a Trinidadian-American sociologist noted for his early Marxist viewpoint on Fascism. He is a member of the Chicago school of sociology

Contents 1 Education 2 Academia 3 Writings 4 Source

[edit] Education

Cox immgrated to the United States and earned a bachelor of science degree from Northwestern University in 1928. He soon developed Poliomyelitis (Polio), causing both his legs to be permanently crippled. He then attended the University of Chicago Economics department and graduated with a Master's degree in 1932. From there, he continued at Chicago in the Sociology department where he graduated from with a Ph.D in 1938.

[edit] Academia

Cox lectured at Lincoln University of Missouri from 1949 - 1970 where he then moved onto a position at Wayne State University until his death in 1974.

[edit] Writings

Cox was a Marxist that criticized capitalism and race in Foundations of Capitalism (1959), Capitalism and American Leadership (1962), Capitalism as a System (1964) and his last, Jewish Self-Interest and Black Pluralism (1974).

[edit] Source

• Biography on the African-American Registry