The Philadelphia Negro: A Social StudyUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1996 - Počet stran: 520 In 1897 a young sociologist who was already marked as a scholar of the highest promise submitted to the American Association of Political and Social Sciences a "plan for the study of the Negro problem". The product of that plan was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society. William Edward Burghardt DuBois (1868-1963), Ph.D. from Harvard (class of 1890), was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct in-depth studies on the Negro community in Philadelphia. The provost of the university was interested and sympathetic, but DuBois knew early on that white interest and sympathy were far from enough. He knew that scholarship was itself a great weapon in the Negro's struggle for a decent life. The Philadelphia Negro was originally published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1899. One of the first works to combine the use of urban ethnography, social history, and descriptive statistics, it has become a classic work in the social science literature. Both the issues the book raises and the evolution of DuBois's own thinking about the problems of black integration into American society sound strikingly contemporary. Among the intriguing aspects of The Philadelphia Negro are what it says about the author, about race in urban America and about social science at the time, but even more important is the fact that many of DuBois's observations can be made - in fact are being made - by investigators today. In his introduction to this edition, Elijah Anderson traces DuBois's life before his move to Philadelphia. He then examines how the neighborhood studied by DuBois has changed over the years, and he compares thestatus of blacks today with their status when the book was initially published. |
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The Scope of This Study | 1 |
The Negro in Philadelphia 16381820 IO24 | 10 |
The Negro in Philadelphia 18201896 2545 | 25 |
The guild of the caterers 18401870 | 32 |
The influx of the freedmen 18701896 | 39 |
The Size Age and Sex of the Negro | 46 |
The Seventh Ward 1896 | 58 |
Conjugal Condition 6672 | 66 |
Some cases of crime | 259 |
Pauperism and Alcoholism 269286 | 269 |
The drink habit | 277 |
The Environment of the Negro 287321 | 287 |
Social classes and amusements | 317 |
Color prejudice | 323 |
Benevolence | 357 |
The intermarriage of the races | 365 |
Sources of the Negro Population 7382 | 73 |
The city | 80 |
Education and Illiteracy 8396 | 83 |
The present condition | 89 |
The Occupation of Negroes 97146 | 97 |
Occupations in the city III | 111 |
History of the occupations of Negroes | 141 |
The Health of Negroes 147163 | 147 |
The Negro Family 164196 | 164 |
Property | 179 |
Family life | 192 |
The function of the Negro church | 201 |
The present condition of the churches | 207 |
Secret and beneficial societies and cooperative | 221 |
Institutions | 230 |
Negro crime since the war | 240 |
A special study in crime | 248 |
City politics | 372 |
Some good results of Negro suffrage | 382 |
The duty of the Negroes | 391 |
Appendix A Schedules used in the housetohouse | 400 |
Appendix B Legislation etc of Pennsylvania | 411 |
Bibliography | 419 |
Introduction | 427 |
Sources of the supply and methods of hiring | 435 |
Grades of service and wages 444455 | 444 |
Savings and expenditure 456462 | 456 |
Summary | 462 |
Length and quality of Negro domestic service 474489 | 474 |
Conjugal condition illiteracy and health | 490 |
Ideals of betterment 500509 | 500 |
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