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The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

W. E. B. Du Bois

What were the lives of Black Philadelphians really like in the eighteen nineties, and what does a careful door to door survey show about their problems?

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W. E. B. Du Bois

Why read it

  • You will see how to study a community by asking its people directly instead of guessing
  • You will understand how work, wages, rent and city politics together shaped the daily lives of a city's Black residents
  • You will learn to read social statistics with care, checking how they were gathered and how evasive answers were handled before trusting them

Who it is for

  • A housing or health worker mapping a neighborhood's needs
  • A researcher designing a survey of a community
  • Someone arguing about poverty who wants evidence, not opinion

Contents

  1. The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
  2. Title
  3. The Black Letters on the Sign: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Canon
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter I: The Scope of this Study
  6. 1. General Aim
  7. 2. The Methods of Inquiry
  8. 3. The Credibility of the Results
  9. Chapter II: The Problem
  10. 4. The Negro Problems of Philadelphia
  11. 5. Plan of Presentment
  12. Chapter III: The Negro in Philadelphia, 1638–1820
  13. 6. General Survey
  14. 7. The Transplanting of the Negro, 1638–1760
  15. 8. Emancipation, 1760–1780
  16. 9. The Rise of the Freedmen, 1780–1820
  17. Chapter IV: The Negro in Philadelphia, 1820–1896
  18. 10. Fugitives and Foreigners, 1820–1840
  19. 11. The Guild of the Caterers, 1840–1870
  20. 12. The Influx of the Freedmen, 1870–1896
  21. Chapter V: The Size, Age and Sex of the Negro Population
  22. 13. The City for a Century
  23. 14. The Seventh Ward, 1896
  24. Chapter VI: Conjugal Condition
  25. 15. The Seventh Ward
  26. 16. The City
  27. Chapter VII: Sources of the Negro Population
  28. 17. The Seventh Ward
  29. 18. The City
  30. Chapter VIII: Education and Illiteracy
  31. 19. The History of Negro Education
  32. 20. The Present Condition
  33. Chapter IX: The Occupations of Negroes
  34. 21. The Question of Earning a Living
  35. 22. Occupations in the Seventh Ward
  36. 23. Occupations in the City
  37. 24. History of the Occupations of Negroes
  38. Chapter X: The Health of Negroes
  39. 25. The Interpretation of Statistics
  40. 26. The Statistics of the City
  41. Chapter XI: The Negro Family
  42. 27. The Size of the Family
  43. 28. Incomes
  44. 29. Property
  45. 30. Family Life
  46. Chapter XII: The Organized Life of Negroes
  47. 31. History of the Negro Church in Philadelphia
  48. 32. The Function of the Negro Church
  49. 33. The Present Condition of the Churches
  50. 34. Secret and Beneficial Societies, and Co-operative Business
  51. 35. Institutions
  52. 36. The Experiment of Organization
  53. Chapter XIII: The Negro Criminal
  54. 37. History of Negro Crime in the City
  55. 38. Negro Crime Since the War
  56. 39. A Special Study in Crime
  57. 40. Some Cases of Crime
  58. Chapter XIV: Pauperism and Alcoholism
  59. 41. Pauperism
  60. 42. The Drink Habit

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