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The Philadelphia Negro

Name: The Philadelphia Negro
Brand: Cosimo Classics
SKU: 9781602069428
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Contributors:

W. E. B. Du Bois

Publisher:

Cosimo Classics

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, Sociology, United States

Book Topic:

American, Urban, 19th Century

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Release Date:

2007-11-01

ISBN 13:

9781602069428

Weight:

1.49 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.50 x 1.20 inches

Pages:

540

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Originally published in 1899, The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of the blacks living in Philadelphia in 1896-7. DuBois was hired by the University of Pennsylvania to conduct the study, under what some believe to be false pretenses. Some suspect that the study was meant, by those funding it, to show how the black community was responsible for a number of problems within the city. The report they received, however, was of quite a different nature. The Philadelphia Negro was the first sociological study of black urban Americans ever conducted. It detailed their lives, their social structures, their education, their marriages, and their jobs. The study sought to illuminate ways in which philanthropy could help the people living in Philadelphia's Seventh Ward. It did not presume, as many people did at the time, that blacks lived in poor conditions due to an innate weakness in their race. This scholarly work serves as an excellent reference for students of history and sociology. American writer, civil rights activist, and scholar WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DUBOIS (1868-1963) was the first black man to receive a PhD from Harvard University. A cofounder of the NAACP, he wrote a number of important books, including Black Folk, Then and Now (1899) and The Negro (1915).

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