The Philadelphia Negro. W. E. B. Du Bois

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       24. History of the occupations of Negroes

       Chapter X. The Health of Negroes

       25. The interpretation of statistics

       26. The statistics of the city

       Chapter XI. The Negro Family

       27. The size of the family

       28. Incomes

       29. Property

       30. Family life

       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 cooperative business

       35. Institutions

       36. The experiment of organization

       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

       Chapter XIV Pauperism and Alcoholism

       41. Pauperism

       42. The drink habit

       43. The causes of crime and poverty

       Chapter XV The Environment of the Negro

       44. Houses and rent

       45. Sections and wards

       46. Social classes and amusements

       Chapter XVI. The Contact of the Races

       47. Color prejudice

       48. Benevolence

       49. The intermarriage of the races

       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

       Chapter XVIII. A Final Word

       56. The meaning of all this

       57. The duty of the Negroes

       58. The duty of the whites

       Appendix A. Schedules used in the house-to-house inquiry

       Appendix B. Legislation, etc., of Pennsylvania in regard to the Negro

       Appendix C. Bibliography

       SPECIAL REPORT ON NEGRO DOMESTIC SERVICE IN THE SEVENTH WARD.

       Historical note by Tera Hunter

       I. Introduction

       II. Enumeration of Negro domestic servants

       Recent reform in domestic service

       Enumeration

       III. Sources of the supply and methods of hiring

       Methods of hiring

       Personnel of colored domestic service

       IV. Grades of service and wages

       Work required of various sub-occupations

       V. Savings and expenditure

       Assistance given by domestic servants

       Summary

       VI. Amusements and recreations

       VII. Length and quality of Negro domestic service

       VIII. Conjugal condition, illiteracy and health of Negro domestics

       Conjugal condition

       Health statistics for domestic servants

       IX. Ideals of betterment

       INDEX

       MAPS.

       I. Map of Seventh Ward, showing streets and political divisions

       II. Map of Seventh Ward, showing distribution of Negro inhabitants throughout the ward, and their social condition

INTRODUCTION TO THE 1996 EDITION OF THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO

      Elijah Anderson

      The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by W.E.B. DuBois was originally published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1899. One of the first works to combine the use of urban ethnography, social history, and descriptive statistics, it has become a classic work in the social science literature. For that reason alone it is an important study that deserves to be read by students of sociology and others interested in the development of the discipline in particular or in American intellectual history in general. W.E.B. DuBois is a founding father of American sociology, but, unfortunately, neither this masterpiece nor much of DuBoiss other work has been given proper recognition; in fact, it is possible to advance through a graduate program in sociology in this country without ever hearing about DuBois. It is my hope that this reprint edition will help rectify a situation undoubtedly rooted in the racial relationships of the era in which the book was first published.

      This fine book, however, is no mere museum piece. Both the issues it raises and the evolution of СКАЧАТЬ