![]() ![]() Part I, "DuBois and the Color Line," will be of interest primarily to intellectual historians. It makes a case for the hybrid genealogy and equivocal assumptions of that text in as comprehensive yet focused and trustworthy a fashion as any succinct treatment could hope to do. Aptly subtitled "the city, the settlement house movement, and the rise of the social sciences," it unpacks the circumstances in which The Philadelphia Negro was produced. The editors' discussion of "The Context of The Philadelphia Negro" introduces nine essays grouped in three parts. ![]() The seminar was convened to situate that work in its late nineteenth-century intellectual and social contexts, and to consider its enduring resonance for the new African American urban history of the late twentieth-century or-in the editors' alternative phrasing-"to reflect on the book's meaning for interpreting the intersections of race and the city today" (p. DuBois, Race, and the City, a collection of essays, grew out of a May 1995 seminar at the University of Pennsylvania celebrating the centenary of the research project that became DuBois's The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899). ![]() The Philadelphia Negro a Century Later: Revisiting an Ur-Text ![]()
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