W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy

by Thomas J. Sugrue, Michael B. Katz, Susan Slymowicz

Book Overview

In 1896 W. E. B. Du Bois began research that resulted three years later in the publication of his great classic of urban sociology and history, The Philadelphia Negro. Today, a group of the nation's leading historians and sociologists celebrate the centenary of his project through a reappraisal of his book. Motivated by Du Bois's deeply humane vision of racial equality, the contributors draw on ethnography, intellectual and social history,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812215931
• ISBN13: 9780812215939
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"