Teele, the collection's editor, suggested that, "All of his criticisms were good, but people were embarrassed by them. "Because of their social isolation and lack of a cultural tradition," wrote Frazier, "the members of the black bourgeoisie in the United States seem to be in the process of becoming no-body." He railed against the professional classes, the black press, and the intellectual and scholarly classes still "mis-educating the Negro." James E. In fact Frazier believed that the Black middle class lived in "a world of make-believe" mimicking a culture and social practice that excluded them. It is still considered a screed against the very class from which "race men" fighting for black advancement originated. Among sociologists of African American life and culture, Frazier is best known for his critical assessment of the Black middle class, Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class in the United States (1957). Franklin Frazier was a controversial pioneering social scientist, Howard University professor, the first African American president of the American Sociological Association, and the first African American elected president of the African Studies Association. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.
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