Kuper, Leo.

Kuper was born in 1908 in Johannesburg, South Africa; he practiced law there, defending human rights victims and representing integrated trade unions; served as an intelligence officer in WWII; studied sociology at the Univ. of North Carolina and at Birmingham Univ. in England; chairman of Dept. of Sociology and dean of the faculty of social sciences at the Univ. of Natal in South Africa; faculty member in UCLA Dept. of Sociology (1961-77); director of the UCLA African Studies Center from 1968 to 1972; published articles and books include: Passive resistance in South Africa (1957), Durban : a study in racial ecology (1958), An African bourgeoisie (1965), The pity of it all : polarization of racial and ethnic relations (1977), Genocide : its political use in the twentieth century (1981), and The prevention of genocide (1985); established International Alert in 1985 with Lord Michael Young in London and Los Angeles; he died on May 23, 1994.

From the description of Papers, 1951-1993. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 39029006

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