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W. E. B. Du Boiss Sociology: The Philadelphia Negro and Social ScienceUniversity of Pennsylvania The author addresses how, as a scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois transcended disciplinary boundaries and genre by providing answers to questions of racial colonialism and enslavement, the role of theory in social change, and the role of race in the dehumanization of the African, to name only a few. Here, the author offers a critical review of Du Boiss application of sociology to the study of the African diaspora in America in The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. The article gives an overview of Du Boiss sociological research as historical, statistical, demographic, and cultural in naturethe type of research that, Du Bois demanded, must lead to social action.
Key Words: W. E. B. Du Bois The Philadelphia Negro African Americans racism sociology
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 595, No. 1,
146-156 (2004) |
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