The Philadelphia Negro : a social study / W.E.B. Du Bois ; with a newly updated introduction by Elijah Anderson ; together with a special report on domestic service by Isabel Eaton.
By: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) [author.].
Contributor(s): Anderson, Elijah [writer of introduction.].
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TextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]Description: xxix, 520 pages : maps, charts ; 23 cm.Content type: Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781512824346.Subject(s): African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions | Household employees -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 305.896 DUB Summary: "More than one hundred years after its original publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press, ThePhiladelphia Negro remains a classic work and is the first sociological case study of an African American community in the United States.It is also the first, and perhaps still the finest, example of engaged sociological scholarship-the kind of work that, in contemplating social reality, helps to change it. This edition features a newly revised introduction by Elijah Anderson that examines how the neighborhood studied by Du Bois has changed over the course of a century; and contextualizes the study in light of recent twenty-first-century scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.
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Originally published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1899.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"More than one hundred years after its original publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press, ThePhiladelphia Negro remains a classic work and is the first sociological case study of an African American community in the United States.It is also the first, and perhaps still the finest, example of engaged sociological scholarship-the kind of work that, in contemplating social reality, helps to change it. This edition features a newly revised introduction by Elijah Anderson that examines how the neighborhood studied by Du Bois has changed over the course of a century; and contextualizes the study in light of recent twenty-first-century scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.