A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED URBAN WATERS W. E. B. Du Bois's The Philadelphia Negro and the Ecological Conundrum

• Published in: Du Bois review Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 7 - 27
• Main Author: Hunter, Marcus Anthony
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.01.2013
• Subjects: Du Bois, W E B (1868-1963); Minority & ethnic groups; Social research; Sociology; Urban areas

Abstract Generating new understandings of the contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois's The Philadelphia Negro (1899) for sociology and social science more generally, this article posits that the urban analysis provided in the book demonstrates how interwoven cultural and economic factors undergird t...