The Negro American family

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The Negro American family

edited by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois

M.I.T. Press, 1970

1st M.I.T. Press pbk. ed

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The Atlanta University publications series

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Reprint. Originally published: Atlanta : Atlanta University Press , 1908. (The Atlanta University publications series)

"Foreword by Daniel P. Moynihan and introduction by James E. Conyers"--Cover

"Report of a social study made principally by the college classes of 1909 and 1910 of Atlanta University ... together with the proceedings of the 13th annual Conference for the Study of Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University on Tuesday, May the 26th, 1908."--p. [ii]

"MIT 137"--Spine

Includes bibliographical references (p. 6-7) and index

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The present interest in the Negro American family, and in the family-connected problems explicit in such a concern, makes the republication of Du Bois's "The Negro American Family" singularly welcome. The work was originally published as No. 13 of the now famous Atlanta University Publications.It is not a description of contemporary black families or of the consciences of blacks as they interpret and respond to present circumstances. A salient point about this study is that it was written prior to 1910. Aside from the question of the quality of the data on Negroes in 1900 and before, it is obvious they do not reflect current situations. Since then changes have occurred in such vital areas as urbanization and literacy. Moreover, the civil rights movement has altered the emphasis on, if not the substance of, the problems Du Bois examines.What then is the principal contribution that this book makes to the social sciences and to contemporary America? It lets us know that some of the problems of power, family stability, economic support, alienation, etc., have deep roots in the past. Even more important, however, are its methodological and theoretical contributions. To Du Bois the Negro family did not just happen; it had a history. For this reason he consistently strives to connect present conditions with an African past. He does not do this because ..".Negro-Americans are Africans, or can trace an unbroken social history from Africa, but because there is a distinct nexus between Africa and America which, though broken and perverted, is nevertheless not to be neglected by the careful student."

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