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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... Read Full Overview

"The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (Grapevine edition)" presents an influential sociological work by W. E. B. du Bois that provides a comprehensive examination of the African American community in Philadelphia at the turn of the 20th century. This groundbreaking study is... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full 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... Read Full Overview

W. E. B. Du Bois's groundbreaking social study of black Americans living in Philadelphia at the end of the 1800s remains an outstanding and thorough example of sociology.

Using knowledge gained from research of black neighborhoods during his time at... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

W. E. B. Du Bois's groundbreaking social study of black Americans living in Philadelphia at the end of the 1800s remains an outstanding and thorough example of sociology.

Using knowledge gained from research of black neighborhoods during his time at... Read Full Overview

"The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (Grapevine edition)" presents an influential sociological work by W. E. B. du Bois that provides a comprehensive examination of the African American community in Philadelphia at the turn of the 20th century. This groundbreaking study is... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

W. E. B. Du Bois's groundbreaking social study of black Americans living in Philadelphia at the end of the 1800s remains an outstanding and thorough example of sociology.

Using knowledge gained from research of black neighborhoods during his time at... Read Full Overview

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study is a groundbreaking sociological work written by W. E. B. DuBois in 1899. The book is a comprehensive study of the African American community in Philadelphia at the turn of the 20th century. DuBois uses a combination of quantitative data... Read Full Overview

In 1897 a young sociologist who was already marked as a scholar of the highest promise submitted to the American Association of Political and Social Sciences a plan for the study of the Negro problem. The product of that plan was the first great empirical book on the Negro in... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study is a groundbreaking book written by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, an African-American sociologist and civil rights activist. The book is a comprehensive study of the black community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the late 19th century... Read Full Overview

In 1897 a 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 in-depth studies on the Negro community in Philadelphia. The product of those studies... Read Full Overview