W.E.B. Dubois, Race, and the City
Subtitle: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy
Contributors: Michael B. Katz (Editor); Thomas J. Sugrue (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: May 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780812233629
Subjects: Black studies; Multicultural studies; Social issues; Urban communities; Social Science; Pennsylvania; Domestics; Sociology; Blacks In The U.S.; Pennsylvania - Local History; People of Color; History - General History; United States - State & Local - General; USA; Du Bois, W. E. B.; Cultural Heritage; General; Du Bois, W. E. B; 1868-1963; Philadelphia; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Philadelphia Negro; (William Edward Burghardt),; African Americans; Congresses
First sentence: "Nobody ever reads that fat volume on 'The Philadelphia Negro,' " W.E.B. DuBois wrote in 1920, recalling his second book two decades after it was published, "but they treat it with respect, and that consoles me."