Du Bois and the Early Development of Urban and Rural Sociology: The Philadelphia Negro and the Sociology of the Souls of Black Farming Folk

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-160
Author(s):  
MISSING-VALUE MISSING-VALUE
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Rural Sociology ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
The Philadelphia Negro

W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and Its Legacy

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
David Levering Lewis ◽  
Michael B. Katz ◽  
Thomas J. Sugrue
Keyword(s):  
Du Bois ◽  
The Philadelphia Negro ◽  
The City

scholarly journals A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED URBAN WATERS

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Urban Ethnography ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Analysis ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Philadelphia Negro ◽  
American Cities

AbstractGenerating 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 the social organization of urban communities more so than any pragmatic economic pattern or logic. It is the interwoven nature of these factors (defined in this article as the counterintuitive economic logics of the study) that have been insufficiently acknowledged in recent decades of social scientific urban studies research. Exploring the interwoven nature of cultural and economic factors in the sustenance of Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward, this article suggests that the agency of African Americans is a critical, yet undervalued, aspect of their urban living. This article situates W. E. B. Du Bois as the first of some later voices (mostly within urban ethnography) that offer a corrective and alternative to urban spatial conceptual frameworks that did not and do not fully account for the persistent influence of race and the agency of racial minorities on the landscape of American cities.

Emancipatory Empiricism: The Rural Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Jakubek ◽  
Spencer D. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Rural Sociology ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Department Of Labor ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
The Social

In this article, the authors discuss W.E.B. Du Bois’ contributions to rural sociology, focusing specifically on his discussions of rural communities and the structure of agriculture. The authors frame his research agenda as an emancipatory empiricism and discuss the ways his rural research is primarily focused on social justice and the social progress of Black communities in rural spaces. Du Bois’ empirical research, funded by the Department of Labor from 1898 to 1905, provides evidence that Du Bois was among the first American sociologists to conduct empirical agrarian analyses and case studies of rural communities.

THE PHILADELPHIA NEGROAND THE CANON OF CLASSICAL URBAN THEORY

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Loughran
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Racial Stratification ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The Philadelphia Negro

AbstractThis paper outlines the urban theory of W. E. B. Du Bois as presented in the classic sociological textThe Philadelphia Negro. I argue that Du Bois’s urban theory, which focused on how the socially-constructed racial hierarchy of the United States was shaping the material conditions of industrial cities, prefigured important later work and offered a sociologically richer understanding of urban processes than the canonized classical urban theorists—Weber, Simmel, and Park. I focus on two key areas of Du Bois’s urban theory: (1) racial stratification as a fundamental feature of the modern city and (2) urbanization and urban migration. WhileThe Philadelphia Negrohas gained recent praise for Du Bois’s methodological achievements, I use extensive passages from the work to demonstrate the theoretical importance ofThe Philadelphia Negroand to argue that this groundbreaking work should be considered canonical urban theory.

“Negroes Plan to Kill All Whites”

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-134
Author(s):  
Peter Irons
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Black Intellectual ◽  
Northern Cities ◽  
The Great Migration ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Philadelphia Negro

This chapter, which covers the first three decades of the twentieth century, begins with an account of the life and career of W. E. B. Du Bois, the most influential Black intellectual and social scientist of that period. A classic insider/outsider in American society, Du Bois earned a Harvard PhD in sociology and wrote a pioneering study of systemic racism in The Philadelphia Negro. He was also an outspoken activist in the Socialist Party and NAACP. Du Bois’s work placed him at the forefront of struggles against racism, especially in northern cities into which 1.5 million southern Blacks moved in the Great Migration, lured by the prospect of steady, well-paid factory jobs. These Black migrants, however, were outnumbered two to one by southern White migrants to those cities, who forced Blacks into ghettos with rundown, overcrowded housing and inferior schools. Tensions between the races intensified after World War I, sparking the “Red Summer” of 1919, with major race riots—instigated by Whites—in Washington, D.C., and Chicago, leaving dozens dead and thousand with burned-out homes. The bloodshed culminated that fall with the massacre of some two hundred Black tenant farmers and their families in the town of Elaine, Arkansas, followed two years later by another massacre, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The decade of the 1920s offered northern Blacks little respite from the racism that kept them from escaping poverty.

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