In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du
Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in
Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a
systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward
of Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great
empirical book on the Negro in American society. More than one
hundred years after its original publication by the University of
Pennsylvania Press, The Philadelphia Negro remains a classic work.
It is the first, and perhaps still the finest, example of engaged
sociological scholarship-the kind of work that, in contemplating
social reality, helps to change it. In his introduction, Elijah
Anderson examines how the neighborhood studied by Du Bois has
changed over the years and compares the status of blacks today with
their status when the book was initially published.
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