Vera Mae Green

Abstract

This chapter presents an overview of Vera Green’s intellectual contributions to anthropology. It explores the influences in Green’s life that shaped her approach to applied anthropology, particularly focusing on her Quaker roots. Green’s research is centered on the study of black families and social and cultural influences impacting their construction. Green earned degrees from Roosevelt College, Columbia University, and the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her dissertation examines the interethnic relations on the island of Aruba, Netherlands Antilles. She died after a long battle with cancer on January 17, 1982, at the age of fifty-three.