Frank H. Hankins | |
Birth Date: | September 27, 1877 |
Birth Place: | Willshire, Ohio, US |
Death Place: | Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, US |
Fields: | Sociology |
Workplaces: | Clark University |
Alma Mater: | Columbia University |
Thesis Title: | Adolphe Quetelet as Statistician |
Thesis Url: | https://books.google.com/books?id=cvs2AQAAMAAJ |
Thesis Year: | 1908 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Henry Ludwell Moore |
Doctoral Students: | Melvin M. Knight |
Frank Hamilton Hankins (September 27, 1877 – January 24, 1970) was an American sociologist and anthropologist who was the president of the American Sociological Society in 1938. He wrote the book The Racial Basis of Civilization (1926) which was critical of notions of racial superiority[1] and racial theories such as Aryanism, Gobinism, Celticism, Anglo-Saxonism and Nordicism.
In 1933 he was one of signers of the Humanist Manifesto.