SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: The Philadelphia Negro, The Atlantic, Fisk University
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Du bois was the first black graduate in his high school"s history in massachusetts. Four liberal white men who took great interest in du bois and agreed to pay for his college education. These community leaders (who included du bois"s high school principal and several prominent pastors) decided that du bois should attend fisk university- a historically black school in nashville, tennessee- rather than harvard, as du bois initially desired. Du bois was primarily concerned with the nature and intersection of race and class. Within this program, du bois conducted three types of research: Empirical studies illuminating the actual social conditions of african. Interpretive essays informed by careful historical research and personal experience, as well as kneen obersertabion that emphasized the subjective experience and sources of inequality. Explicitly political essays focusing on pan-africanist and socialist. Introduction to the philadelphia negro solutions to inequality and racism. The philadelphia negro is the first major sociological study of an african.
