Book
The Philadelphia Negro: a social study
B. Blom • (14) • Published In 1967 • Pages: xx, 520
By: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a classic sociological study of Blacks in Philadelphia at the end of the nineteenth century by a well-known Black scholar, W. E. B. DuBois. It contains information on the history of Blacks in Philadelphia from 1638 to 1896, the size and age and sex distribution of the Philadelphia Black population from ca. 1800 to 1890, marriage statistics, immigration into Philadelphia from other parts of the United States, education and illiteracy, occupations, health, the family, churches and voluntary organizations, crime, poverty and alcoholism, housing and recreational activities, interaction with Whites, and suffrage.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Religious denominations
- Occupational specialization
- Domestic service
- Crime
- Settlement patterns
- Urban and rural life
- Housing
- Poverty
- Labor supply and employment
- Sociocultural trends
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- African Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1896-1898
- NotesAdditional notes
- W. E. Burghardt DuBois ; together with a special report on domestic service, by Isabel Eaton.
- The Philadelphia Negro.--Appendixes:--A. Schedules used in the house-to-house inquiry.--B. Legislation, etc., of Pennsylvania in regard to the Negro.--C. Bibliography (p. 419-423). Special report on Negro domestic service in the seventh ward, Philadelphia, by I. Eaton.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-423)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 67013005
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions