W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: "The Philadelphia Negro" and Its Legacy
"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&hellip;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 toThe Philadelphia Negro."—David Levering Lewis,Journal of American History