Bob Blauner

Robert "Bob" Blauner (born May 18, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American sociologist, college professor and author.

Blauner's sociological writings and teachings on class, race and men are rooted in his years as a factory worker. His formal studies led to a B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1948, followed by an M.A. in 1950; he earned his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1962.

Married twice, he began teaching at San Francisco State University, the University of Chicago and from 1963 on he taught at Berkeley.

The well-known "Blauner Hypothesis" states that minority groups created by colonization, because it is forced on them, experience a greater degree of racism and discrimination than those created by voluntary immigration.

In his studies, Blauner contrasts the assimilation experiences of Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexican-Americans.

His work was funded by major groups such as the National Institute of Mental Health, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council

Bibliography

• Alienation and Freedom: The Factory Worker and His Industry (1964).
• Racial Oppression in America (1972).
• Black Lives, White Lives: Three Decades of Race Relations in America (1989).
• Our Mothers' Spirits: Great Writers on the Death of Mothers and the Grief of Men, editor (1997).
• Resisting McCarthyism: To Sign or Not to Sign California’s Loyalty Oath (2009).
• Colonized and Immigrant Minorities

See also

• Policy alienation
• Social alienation

Sources

• "Robert Blauner." World of Sociology. Gale Group, 2001.