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Marxian, it is not because we have taken the ideas of this justly famous writer as gospel, but because we have not discovered any other that could explain the facts so consistently. (p. xi)
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officer. Virginia Blake Cox was the mother of Cox and his seven siblings. Cox's uncle, Reginald Vidale was the
Catholic school master at St. Thomas Boys’ School. He was a prominent teacher in the local school system and was highly respected in the community. Reginald transitioned from the position of
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At best, Marxian hypotheses are "servants, not masters." Indeed, it has been said that Karl Marx himself was not
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The Racial and Ethnic
Minorities' Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award (for Anti-Racist Scholarship) is given out annually and also The Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities' Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award (for Anti-Racist Scholarship). Cox was the first ever recipient of the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier
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provided an alternative to the liberal pluralist view of race by attempting to integrate race and class in order to critique capitalism. Cox believed that the racialized system in the US was a result of the intersection of class and democracy. Understanding race, and race relations in the United
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until March 11, 1970, where he told the president at the college, Walter
Daniels, that he was retiring. Cox moved and accepted a position as a Visiting Professor in the sociology department that was encouraged by Alvin W. Rose at
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Inspector of schools in 1943 and later became a city councilman, an alderman, and then mayor of Port Spain. Cox had three nieces Ann V. Awon-Pantin, Esther Awon-Thomasos, and Juliet Awon-Uibopuu/
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