The Philadelphia Negro : a social study /

"More than one hundred years after its original publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press, ThePhiladelphia Negro remains a classic work and is the first sociological case study of an African American community in the United States.It is also the first, and perhaps still the finest, ex...

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Main Author: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 (Author)
Other Authors: Eaton, Isabel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
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Summary:"More than one hundred years after its original publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press, ThePhiladelphia Negro remains a classic work and is the first sociological case study of an African American community in the United States.It is also the first, and perhaps still the finest, example of engaged sociological scholarship-the kind of work that, in contemplating social reality, helps to change it. This edition features a newly revised introduction by Elijah Anderson that examines how the neighborhood studied by Du Bois has changed over the course of a century; and contextualizes the study in light of recent twenty-first-century scholarship"--
Item Description:Originally published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1899.
Physical Description:xxix, 520 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781512824346
1512824348