1. St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1945).
2. St. Clair Drake, “Black Studies and Global Perspectives: An Essay,” Journal of Negro Education 53:3 (Summer 1984): 226–242.
3. St. Clair Drake, “Reflections on Anthropology and the Black Experience,” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 9:2 (Summer 1978), 86.
4. George Clement Bond, “A Social Portrait of John Gibbs St. Clair Drake: An American Anthropologist,” American Ethnologist, 15:4, (1988), 769.
5. Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, and Mary Gardner, Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941).