Abstract
Oliver Cox was a towering, radical, historical, and economic sociologist. He dared to criticize Robert Park, the doyen of race relations in the American academy of his day, at a time when it was not politic to do so. He was unfazed by the unpopularity of Marxism, claiming a commitment to socialism and a radical orientation at the height of the McCarthy purges of radical intellectuals and communists. These acts of intellectual defiance placed Cox firmly on the margins of American sociology and sealed his fate in the academy as an outsider. The marginalization of Cox was not simply confined to the United States, but extended to his native Trinidad, and for that matter the wider Caribbean. Despite his incredible contribution to the discipline of sociology, he is largely unknown in Caribbean intellectual circles. This article focuses on Cox’s path-breaking work in the area of race relations. The essay ends with a discussion of Cox’s legacy and what Caribbean academics, intellectuals, and students could learn from his contribution.
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