The American Negro.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Philadelphia : American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1928.
Description
viii, 359 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Editor
Library of Congress genre(s)
Series
  • Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 140. [More in this series]
  • Annals / American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 140
Notes
  • Edited by Donald Young.
  • Includes contributions by Herbert Adolphus Miller, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, et al.
  • Woodcut frontispiece, "A Lackawanna steel mill" by J.L. Wells.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Binding note
Princeton copy 1 In original dust jacket.
Contents
  • Part I. Race relations
  • Race and class parallelism / Herbert Adolphus Miller
  • Race relations in the United States / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
  • The bases of race prejudice / Robert E. Park
  • Part II. The negro as an element in the population of the United States
  • Self-respect as a factor in racial advancement / H.M. Bond
  • The Negro in the United States, a statistical statement / Charles Luther Fry
  • The American mulatto / E.B. Reuter
  • The Negro family / E. Franklin Frazier
  • The Negro criminal, a statistical note / Thorsten Sellin
  • Feebleminded and pauper Negroes in public institutions / Niles Carpenter
  • The health of the Negro / Louis I. Dublin
  • Tuberculosis and the Negro / H.M.R. Landis
  • Part III. The legal status of the negro
  • Legal aspects of the Negro problem / James Weldon Johnson and Herbert Seligmann
  • Government and the Negro / Kelly Miller
  • Residential segregation in American cities / Ernest W. Burgess
  • Part IV. The economic achievement of the negro
  • The progress of the American Negro in slavery / Roy F. Nichols
  • Industrial training for the Negro / James E. Gregg
  • The changing economic status of the Negro / Charles S. Johnson
  • The Negro in business and the professions / Monroe N. Work
  • The Negro in the New South / Will W. Alexander
  • Part V. The mental ability and achievement of the Negro
  • Early African culture as an indication of present Negro potentialities / Leo Frobenius
  • The mental status of the Negro / Morris S. Viteles
  • Methods of investigating comparative abilities in races / Joseph Peterson
  • The musical ability of the Negro / Yale Nathanson
  • Three new approaches to the study of Negro music / Carl E. Seashore
  • The educational achievements of Negro children / Charles J. Thompson
  • Common schools for Negroes in the South / N.C. Newbold
  • Negroes in the public elementary schools of the North / E. George Payne
  • The Negro's contribution to American art and literature / Alain Locke
  • The Negro press / Eugene Gordon
  • Part VI. Organizations for social betterment
  • Organized Negro effort for racial progress / R.R. Moton
  • The church and Negro progress / George E. Haynes
  • Recreational facilities for the Negro / Forrester B. Washington
  • The work of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations with Negro youth / C.H. Tobias
  • Social work among Negroes / Eugene Kinckle Joness
  • Health measures as they relate to the Negro race / F.O. Nichols
  • Part VII. Race relations in other lands
  • Black and White in South Africa / Raymond Leslie Buell
  • The Negro in relation to other races in Latin America / L.L. and J.S. Bernard
  • Black and White in certain parts of West Africa / Isaac Fisher
  • The color line in Europe / Walter White.
LCCN
28029716
OCLC
171268
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