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Biography of Abram Lincoln Harris, Jr.
Name: Abram Lincoln Harris, Jr.
Birth Date: January 17, 1899
Death Date: 1963
Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: economist, professor
Abram Lincoln Harris, Jr.
Abram Lincoln Harris, Jr. (1899-1963), was the first African American to achieve prominence in the economics profession in the United States as an academic. Harris's influence touched fields as disparate as economic anthropology, African American studies, institutional economics, and the history of economic doctrines.Abram Lincoln Harris, Jr., was born into a comparatively middle-class African American family in Richmond, Virginia, on January 17, 1899. His father, a butcher, and his mother, a schoolteacher, together made it possible for their son's upbringing to occur in the midst of relative economic security with a high degree of intellectual stimulation. The elder Harris worked at a meat shop owned by a German-American in Richmond, and the younger Harris, as a consequence of his interaction with the owner's family, developed fluency in German at an early age. This would serve him well in his mature years when he devoted much of his attention to the writings of …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…thinking of Abram Harris, Jr., is available in three major sources: the aforementioned work with Spero, The Black Worker (1931); his study of African American entrepreneurial history in the United States, The Negro as Capitalist (1936), which included a savage attack on the impact of African American businessmen on the African American masses; and his essays and book reviews, virtually all of which are available in a volume entitled Economics and Social Reform (1957) and a volume entitled Race, Radicalism, and Reform: Selected Papers (edited by William Darity, Jr., 1989). The last includes an introductory essay with an appraisal of Harris's life and accomplishments as well as a series of appraisals of each bloc of essays in the volume, both prepared by the editor. For additional biographical information on Harris's career see William Darity, Jr., and Julian Ellison, "Abram Harris, Jr.: The Economics of Race and Social Reform" in History of Political Economy (Winter 1990).
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