The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

by W.E.B. Du Bois and Web DuBois

Book Overview

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 studies was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society.

More than one hundred years after its original publication by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812215737
• ISBN13: 9780812215731
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Sociological Ground Breaker

Read this book! Not only was "The Philadelphia Negro" a groundbreaking piece of sociological research in its day (the late 19th century), the book also goes a long way to explain the historical roots of much of what we see today in Philadelphia and other cities in America. Organized simply and effectively into clear chapters, we learn how African Americans really lived in Philadelphia after emancipation; detailing family and household arrangements, employment, education, health and religion. Elijah Anderson's introduction is a fantastic bonus, helping to illuminate the book even more. Everyone living in Philadelphia should read this!