The Negro in the United States
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 796
Subjects: African Americans.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 707-752.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Louis Wirth; title: Preface to revised edition; title: Author's preface; title: Part one : The Negro under the slave regime.; title: Significance of the African background; title: Evolution of the slave status; title: The plantation as a social institution; title: The free Negro; title: Slave revolts and the Underground Railroad; title: Part two : Racial conflict and new forms of accommodation.; title: The Civil War and Emancipation; title: Reconstruction : period of acute race conflict; title: New forms of accommodation; title: Part three : The Negro community and its institutions.; title: The growth and distribution of the Negro population; title: Rural Negro communities; title: Urban Negro communities; title: Social and economic stratification; title: The Negro family; title: The Negro church; title: Mutual aid and fraternal organizations; title: Business enterprise; title: Part four : Intellectual life and leadership.; title: Elementary and secondary schools; title: Institutions of higher education; title: Negro press and literature; title: Social movements and race consciousness; title: Negro leaders and the Negro intelligentsia; title: Part five : Problems of adjustment.; title: Health and survival; title: Unemployment and poverty; title: Family disorganization; title: Crime and delinquency; title: Mental deficiency and insanity; title: Race relations; title: Conclusion.; title: Prospects for integration of the Negro into American society; title: A classified bibliography; title: Supplementary bibliography