The Philadelphia negro : a social study

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868-1963 (Author).

Summary: W.E.B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several.

Record details

ISBN: 0199383715
ISBN: 9780199383719
Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2007]
Copyright: ©2007

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: Philadelphia : The University, 1899, in series: Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law. With new introd.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The scope of this study -- The problem -- The Negro in Philadelphia, 1638-1820 -- The Negro in Philadelphia, 1820-1896 -- The size, age and sex of the Negro population -- Conjugal condition -- Sources of the Negro population -- Education and illiteracy -- The occupations of Negroes -- The health of Negroes -- The Negro family -- The organized life of Negroes -- The Negro criminal -- Pauperism and alcoholism -- The environment of the Negro -- The contact of the races -- Negro suffrage -- A final word.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version record.