Leo Kuper papers, 1952-1966 (inclusive), [microform].

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Leo Kuper papers, 1952-1966 (inclusive), [microform].

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The papers of Leo Kuper, sociologist and author, consist almost entirely of research materials collected between 1957 and 1963 for his book The African Bourgeoisie. Included are translations of interviews, responses to questionnaires, analyses by Kuper and his assistants, and newspaper clippings on South African life. There is also a small amount of correspondence.

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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...