Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Recollections -- E. Franklin Frazier A Memoir -- A Focused Memoir Howard University and Frazier, 1933-1941 -- Frazier's Background and an Overview -- Part II Graduate Study -- E. Franklin Frazier and the Chicago School of Sociology A Study in the Sociology of Knowledge -- Part III Reflections on the Black Middle Class and the Black Community -- Between Scorn and Longing Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie -- Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie Talented Tenth or a Parasitic Class? -- The Middle-Class Black Male A Barometer of the Well-Being of African American Communities -- E. Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie Reconsidered Frazier's Analytical Perspective -- E. Franklin Frazier's Role in African Studies -- Conclusion and Some Research Questions -- About the Contributors -- Index.