Leo Kuper (1908-1994) Papers 1952-1966

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Leo Kuper (1908-1994) Papers 1952-1966

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South African sociologist; includes correspondence and research materials from 1957-1963 relating to Leo Kuper's study of An African Bourgeoisie.

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Melville J. Herskovits library of African studies

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Melville J. Herskovits library of African studies

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Kuper, Leo.

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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 t...