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Author Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Title The Philadelphia negro : a social study / W.E.B. Du Bois ; series editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; introduction by Lawrence Bobo.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Works. Selections. 2007.
Note Originally published: Philadelphia : The University, 1899, in series: Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law. With new introd.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The scope of this study -- The problem -- The Negro in Philadelphia, 1638-1820 -- The Negro in Philadelphia, 1820-1896 -- The size, age and sex of the Negro population -- Conjugal condition -- Sources of the Negro population -- Education and illiteracy -- The occupations of Negroes -- The health of Negroes -- The Negro family -- The organized life of Negroes -- The Negro criminal -- Pauperism and alcoholism -- The environment of the Negro -- The contact of the races -- Negro suffrage -- A final word.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Summary 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.
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Subject African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
African Americans.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Social conditions.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Du Bois, W.E.B. Philadelphia negro : a social study. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2007] xxx 315 pages Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois 9780199957958 (DLC) 2007009378
ISBN 9780199383719 (electronic book)
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