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Benjamin P. Bowser

1946–

United States

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Benjamin Paul Bowser (born 1946) is an American sociologist, research methodologist and professor emeritus of Sociology and Social Services at California State University, East Bay. His scholarship focuses on race relations, the Black middle class, drug abuse prevention, and the social impacts of racism. He is the author or editor of a dozen books including The Black Middle Class: Social Mobility and Vulnerability and Against the Odds: Scholars Who Challenged Racism in the Twentieth Century.

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