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OverviewIn 1896 W. E. B. Du Bois began research that resulted three years later in the publication of his great classic of urban sociology and history, The Philadelphia Negro. Today, a group of the nation's leading historians and sociologists celebrate the centenary of his project through a reappraisal of his book. Motivated by Du Bois's deeply humane vision of racial equality, the contributors draw on ethnography, intellectual and social history, and statistical analysis to situate Du Bois and his pioneering study in the intellectual milieu of the late nineteenth century, consider his contributions to the subsequent social scientific and historical studies of the city, and assess the contemporary meaning of his work. Together these essays show that The Philadelphia Negro remains as vital and relevant a book at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the start. Contributors include Elijah Anderson, Mia Bay, V. P. Franklin, Robert Gregg, Thomas C. Holt, Tera W. Hunter, Jacqueline Jones, Antonio McDaniel, and Carl Husemoller Nightingale. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael B. Katz , Thomas J. SugruePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.449kg ISBN: 9780812215939ISBN 10: 0812215931 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 20 April 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""A splendid collection of essays."" * <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> * ""This book not only reassesses the role of W. E. B. Du Bois as a public intellectual but reappraises the impact of his seminal study on interpretations of the twentieth-century African-American experience…It offers an interdisciplinary critique that will shape scholarship in the twenty-first century."" * Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University * ""There is unanimity among these historians and sociologists in ascribing seminal importance to The Philadelphia Negro."" * David Levering Lewis, <i>Journal of American History</i> *" A splendid collection of essays. -Times Literary Supplement This book not only reassesses the role of W. E. B. Du Bois as a public intellectual but reappraises the impact of his seminal study on interpretations of the twentieth-century African-American experience...It offers an interdisciplinary critique that will shape scholarship in the twenty-first century. -Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University There is unanimity among these historians and sociologists in ascribing seminal importance to The Philadelphia Negro. -David Levering Lewis, Journal of American History A splendid collection of essays. * <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> * This book not only reassesses the role of W. E. B. Du Bois as a public intellectual but reappraises the impact of his seminal study on interpretations of the twentieth-century African-American experience…It offers an interdisciplinary critique that will shape scholarship in the twenty-first century. * Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University * There is unanimity among these historians and sociologists in ascribing seminal importance to The Philadelphia Negro. * David Levering Lewis, <i>Journal of American History</i> * Author InformationMichael B. Katz is Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the ""Underclass,"" and Urban Schools as History, among other books. Thomas J. Sugrue is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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