ISBN:
9780199957958
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (363 p)
Series Statement:
Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois v.2
Parallel Title:
Print version The Philadelphia Negro (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)
DDC:
305.896/073074811
Keywords:
African Americans ; Pennsylvania ; Philadelphia ; Social conditions ; 19th century
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African Americans ; Pennsylvania ; Philadelphia ; Social life and customs ; 19th century
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Philadelphia (Pa.) ; Race relations ; History ; 19th century
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Philadelphia (Pa.) ; Social conditions ; 19th century
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Abstract:
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO: A Social Study; Copyright; Contents; The Black Letters on the Sign: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Canon; Introduction: Lawrence Bobo, Stanford University; Map of Seventh Ward, showing distribution of Negroinhabitants throughout the ward, and their socialcondition; CHAPTER I: The Scope of This Study; 1. General Aim; 2. The Methods of Inquiry; 3. The Credibility of the Results; NOTES; CHAPTER II: The Problem; 4. The Negro Problems of Philadelphia; 5. Plan of Presentment; CHAPTER III: The Negro in Philadelphia, 1638-1820; 6. General Survey
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7. The Transplanting of the Negro, 1638-17608. Emancipation, 1760-1780; 9. The Rise of the Freedman, 1780-1820; NOTES; CHAPTER IV: The Negro in Philadelphia,1820-1896; 10. Fugitives and Foreigners, 1820-1840; 11. The Guild of the Caterers, 1840-1870; 12. The Influx of the Freedmen, 1870-1896; NOTES; CHAPTER V: The Size, Age and Sex of the Negro Population; 13. The City for a Century; 14. The Seventh Ward, 1896; Map of Seventh Ward, showing streets and politicaldivisions; NOTES; CHAPTER VI: Conjugal Condition; 15. The Seventh Ward; 16. The City; NOTES
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CHAPTER VII: Sources of the Negro Population17. The Seventh Ward; 18. The City; NOTES; CHAPTER VIII: Education and Illiteracy; 19. The History of Negro Education; 20. The Present Condition; NOTES; CHAPTER IX: The Occupations of Negroes; 21. The Question of Earning a Living; 22. Occupations in the Seventh Ward; 23. Occupations in the City; 24. History of the Occupations of Negroes; NOTES; CHAPTER X: The Health of Negroes; 25. The Interpretation of Statistics; 26. The Statistics of the City; NOTES; CHAPTER XI: The Negro Family; 27. The Size of the Family; 28. Incomes; 29. Property
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30. Family LifeNOTES; CHAPTER XII: The Organized Life of Negroes; 31. History of the Negro Church in Philadelphia; 32. The Function of the Negro Church; 33. The Present Condition of the Churches; 34. Secret and Beneficial Societies, and Co-operative Business; 35. Institutions; 36. The Experiment of Organization; NOTES; CHAPTER XIII: The Negro Criminal; 37. History of Negro Crime in the City; 38. Negro Crime Since the War; 39. A Special Study in Crime; 40. Some Cases of Crime; NOTES; CHAPTER XIV: Pauperism and Alcoholism; 41. Pauperism; 42. The Drink Habit; 43. The Causes of Crime and Poverty
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NOTESCHAPTER XV: The Environment of the Negro; 44. Houses and Rent; 45. Sections and Wards; 46. Social Classes and Amusements; NOTES; CHAPTER XVI: The Contact of the Races; 47. Color Prejudice; 48. Benevolence; NOTES; CHAPTER XVII: Negro Suffrage; 50. The Significance of the Experiment; 51. The History of Negro Suffrage in Pennsylvania; 52. City Politics; 53. Some Bad Results of Negro Suffrage; 54. Some Good Results of Negro Suffrage; 55. The Paradox of Reform; NOTES; CHAPTER XVIII: A Final Word; 56. The Meaning of All This; 57. The Duty of the Negroes; 58. The Duty of the Whites
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APPENDIX A Schedules used in the House-to-House Inquiry
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