"The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of African Americans in Philadelphia written by W. E. B. Du Bois, commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and published ...

"The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of African Americans in Philadelphia written by W. E. B. Du Bois, commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and published ...

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 ...

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study is a landmark in empirical sociological research. Du Bois was the first sociologist to document the living circumstances of urban Black ...

Originally published in 1899, this is one of the first works to combine the use of urban ethnography, social history, and descriptive statistics. The issues the book raises and ...

Originally published in 1899, this is one of the first works to combine the use of urban ethnography, social history, and descriptive statistics. The issues the book raises and ...