The Philadelphia Negro : : A Social Study /

The Philadelphia Negro : : A Social Study / / W. E. B. Du Bois.

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In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those st...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
VerfasserIn:
Du Bois, W. E. B.,
TeilnehmendeR:
Anderson, Elijah
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©1996
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (568 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Introduction to the 1996 Edition by Elijah Anderson
  • Chapter I. The Scope of This Study
  • Chapter II. The Problem
  • Chapter III. The Negro in Philadelphia, 1638-1820
  • Chapter IV. The Negro in Philadelphia, 1820-1896
  • Chapter V.The Size, Age and Sex of the Negro Population
  • Chapter VI. Conjugal Condition
  • Chapter VII. Sources of the Negro Population
  • Chapter VIII. Education and Illiteracy
  • Chapter IX. The Occupation of Negroes
  • Chapter X. The Health of Negroes
  • Chapter XI. The Negro Family
  • Chapter XII. The Organized Life of Negroes
  • Chapter XIII. The Negro Criminal
  • Chapter XIV. Pauperism and Alcoholism
  • Chapter XV. The Environment of the Negro
  • Chapter XVI. The Contact of the Races
  • Chapter XVII. Negro Suffrage
  • Chapter XVIII. A Final Word
  • APPENDICES
  • SPECIAL REPORT ON NEGRO DOMESTIC SERVICE IN THE SEVENTH WARD
  • INDEX

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