"Oliver Cox"

From Port of Spain,Trinidad,he was one of eight children and was raised by his uncle Reginald was a teacher.He came to the United States and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in law from Northwestern University in 1928.He had plan to return Trinidad after graduation;he succumbed to poliomyelitis which permanently cripped both legs.Faced with disability Oliver felt compelled to find another career.He entered the Department of Economics at the University Chicago.In June 1932,he graduated with a Master's Degree.He also attended the University of Chicago Department of Sociology,and graduated in 1938 with a P.hD.in Sociology.He joined the faulty of Lincoln University in Jefferson City,Missouri in 1949.He stayed there until 1970,when he joined the faulty of Wayne State University in Michigan.Oliver is best known for attack on the "caste school of relations,"in later years he argued his Marxist views capitalism and race in three books:Foundations of Capitalism (1959),Capitalism and American Leadership (1962),and Capitalism as a System (1964).His final work Jewish Selfinterest and Black Pluralism (1974).