Despite many accolades, E. Franklin Frazier, the first African American to be elected to the American Sociological Society, is also an object of scorn.Specifically, some accuse Frazier of a view that blames the ills of the Black community on female-headed households, illegitimacy, and family disorganization.Some also accuse Frazier of characterizing the Black family as broken and pathological and the opinion that families must be formal and nuclear in order to be viable.This paper argues that these representations of Frazier are mistaken and offers a more accurate and holistic portrayal of Frazier's sociological judgements and theorizing regarding the African-American family.E. Franklin Frazier, who in 1948 became the first African-American sociologist to be elected president of the American Sociological Society (now Association), was thirty-three years old and a seasoned social scientist by the time he came to the University of Chicago in 1927 to complete work on a doctorate in sociology.Frazier graduated cum laude from Howard University in 1916 before sociology was established as a curriculum.However, after working three years as a secondary teacher, Frazier earned a masters degree in sociology from Clark University.From 1920 to 1921, Frazier was a research fellow at the New York School of Social Work, where he conducted a study of the longshoremen of

American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934. By César J. Ayala. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp.xii, 321. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 19.95 paper. - Volume 58 Issue 2

Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico: Michoacán from the Late Colony to the Revolution. By Margaret Chowning. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 477. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Appendices. $60.00.) - Volume 57 Issue 1

Adrian A. Bantjes. As If Jesus Walked on Earth: Cardenismo, Sonora, and the Mexican Revolution. (Latin American Silhouettes: Studies in History and Culture.) Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources. 1998. Pp. xix, 320. $50.00 Get access Bantjes Adrian A.. As If Jesus Walked on Earth: Cardenismo, Sonora, and the Mexican Revolution. (Latin American Silhouettes: Studies in History and Culture.) Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources. 1998. Pp. xix, 320. $50.00. David W. Walker David W. Walker Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 104, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 618–619, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/104.2.618 Published: 01 April 1999

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chains of evidence and reasoning as she develops her interpretations. The University of Oklahoma Press also deserves praise for the high quality of the drawing reproductions along with the color photographs which provide some visual sense of the site and its artifacts. If the book were to come out in a paperback edition, a map situating the site and other sites and cultures mentioned would be a most useful addition, making the book more usable for students. However, any Latin American historian or ethnohistorian interested in the prehispanic background of Mesoamerica will find this challenging and aesthetically-pleasing volume of real interest.

Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State: Guerrero, 1800-1857. By Peter F. Guardino. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996, Pp. 319. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00.) - Volume 54 Issue 1

The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, The State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico. By Kevin J. Middlebrook. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. 463. Acronyms. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Cloth $59.95.) - Volume 52 Issue 3

A Question of Labour: Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana 1875-1917. By K.O. Laurence. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. ix, 648. Tables. Maps. Appendices. Diagram. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95.) - Volume 51 Issue 4

The Central Republic in Mexico, 1835-1846: Hombres de Bien in the Age of Santa Anna. By Michael P. Costeloe. [Cambridge Latin American Studies, No. 73.] (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 324. Sources. Index. $59.95.) - Volume 52 Issue 1

Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution 1910-1924. By Gregg Andrews. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pp. vii, 272. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price.) - Volume 51 Issue 1

IN the broad field of Latin American history few topics have drawn the interest of more scholars than the Mexican Revolution. From Frank Tannenbaum's Mexican Agrarian Revolution (1929) to Ramon Ruiz' Great Rebellion (1980) to Alan Knight's Mexican Revolution (1986) and John Hart's Revolutionary Mexico (1987), historians have explored and argued questions about the nature of this great conflict.' Was it the epic agrarian revolution that Tannenbaum celebrates? Or was it, as revisionists such as Ruiz suggest, only a series of lesser revolts with significant elite and middle-class direction and participation and with agrarian radicalism confined to specific areas like Morelos? Resolution of this historiographical impasse awaits the completion of studies of localized revolutionary movements in northern Mexico, where the revolution began in LgLo and where its main thrust originated during most of the revolutionary decade. Historians have studied exhaustively the prominent leaders (Madero, Zapata, Carranza, Obregon, and others), but until recently have displayed less interest in the anonymous doings of more ordinary agrarian revolutionaries who usually have minimal historical visibility outside their own communities.2 Similarly, scholars have