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

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• VerfasserIn: Du Bois, W. E. B.,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Elijah,; Eaton, Isabel,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (568 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION TO THE 2023 EDITION OF THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO
• MAPS
• THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO
• 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
• Appendix A. Schedules used in the house-to-house inquiry
• Appendix B. Legislation, etc., of Pennsylvania in regard to the Negro
• Appendix C. Bibliography
• SPECIAL REPORT ON NEGRO DOMESTIC SERVICE IN THE SEVENTH WARD
• INDEX