12 Facts About Stanley Diamond

Stanley Diamond was an American poet and anthropologist.

Stanley Diamond wrote several books and founded Dialectical Anthropology, a Marxist anthropology journal, in 1975.

Stanley Diamond was born into a progressive and intellectual middle-class Jewish family in New York City.

Stanley Diamond's family had strong ties to the city's Yiddish community, and his grandfather had founded a Yiddish theater.

Stanley Diamond was interested in African-Americans' civil rights at a young age, writing about the topic as early as age fourteen.

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At the outbreak of World War II, Stanley Diamond joined the British Army Field Service and served in North Africa.

At Brandeis, Stanley Diamond became very close to Paul Radin and organized a Festschrift for that notable student of Franz Boas.

Stanley Diamond became the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Humanities at The New School and Poet in the University.

Stanley Diamond later taught as visiting professor in Berlin and Mexico and at Bard College.

Stanley Diamond is known for having founded social-science journal Dialectical Anthropology in 1976.

Stanley Diamond's published books are several volumes of poetry, including Totems and Going West and a collection of essays called In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization.

Stanley Diamond died of liver cancer on March 31,1991, at the age of 69.