| W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy Contributor(s): Katz, Michael B. (Editor), Sugrue, Thomas J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0812215931 ISBN-13: 9780812215939 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: "There is unanimity among these historians and sociologists in ascribing seminal importance to |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 97047731 |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.17" W x 9.23" (1.04 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, and statistical analysis to situate Du Bois and his pioneering study in the intellectual milieu of the late nineteenth century, consider his contributions to the subsequent social scientific and historical studies of the city, and assess the contemporary meaning of his work. Together these essays show that The Philadelphia Negro remains as vital and relevant a book at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the start. Contributors include Elijah Anderson, Mia Bay, V. P. Franklin, Robert Gregg, Thomas C. Holt, Tera W. Hunter, Jacqueline Jones, Antonio McDaniel, and Carl Husemoller Nightingale. |