W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy

In 1896, W.e.b. Dubois 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 Dubois's Deeply Humane Vision Of Racial Equality, They Draw On Ethnography, Intellectual And Social History, And Statistical Analysis To Situate Dubois 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 Meaning Of His Work For Today. Introduction : The Context Of The Philadelphia Negro / Michael B. Katz And Thomas J. Sugrue -- The World Was Thinking Wrong About Race : The Philadelphia Negro And Nineteenth-century Science / Mia Bay -- W.e.b. Dubois's Archaeology Of Race : Re-reading The Conservation Of Races / Thomas C. Holt -- Giant Steps : W.e.b. Dubois And The Historical Enterprise / Robert Gregg -- Lifework And Its Limits : The Problem Of Labor In The Philadelphia Negro / Jacqueline Jones -- The 'brotherly Love' For Which This City Is Proverbial Should Extend To All : The Everyday Lives Of Working-class Women In Philadelphia And Atlanta In The 1890s / Tera W. Hunter -- (cont.) The Philadelphia Negro Then And Now : Implications For Empirical Research / Antonio Mcdaniel -- Operation Street Corner : The Wharton Centre And The Juvenile Gang Problem In Philadelphia, 1945-1958 / V.p. Franklin -- The Global Inner City : Toward A Historical Analysis / Carl Husemoller Nightingale -- Drugs And Violence In The Inner City / Elijah Anderson. Edited By Michael B. Katz And Thomas J. Sugrue. Revision Of Essays Presented At A Two-day Seminar Held May 1995 At The University Of Pennsylvania. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.