The Emergence of African-American Sociology: DuBois, Frazier, Drake and Cayton | |
Weblinks
The Dead Sociologists' Society | | The Du Bois section of this website provides background on Du Bois the person, as well as a summary of his ideas and parts of his original texts, including The Souls of Black Folk and The Philadelphia Negro. (
http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/INDEX.HTML#dubois
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A Biographical Sketch of W.E.B. Du Bois | | This is a somewhat lengthy biographical sketch of Du Bois. It provides insight into his life and intellectual work, as well as a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. (
http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html
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Atlantic Monthly Article on Du Bois | | This article, which appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1965, is based on one of the last interviews Du Bois gave. (
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/black/mcgillbh.htm.
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The W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University | | According to its mission statement, "The W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University is a series of pages detailing various aspects of Du Bois studies
[intended] to spur intelligent scholarship and discussion of his life, legacy, and works." (
http://members.tripod.com/~DuBois/
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Works by W.E.B. Du Bois | | This site provides links to several of the original texts of Du Bois's work, including The Souls of Black Folk, "The Talented Tenth," and "The Evolution of Negro Leadership." (
http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/dubois.html
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The Souls of Black Folk | | This site provides access to the entire original text of Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk. It is organized by chapter. (
http://www.bartleby.com/114/
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W.E.B. Du Bois Webography | | This site provides Web resources on Du Bois, including biographical information, original texts, and articles written about Du Bois. (
http://faculty.millikin.edu/~rbrooks.hum.faculty.mu/MApoetry/Duboissite.html
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E. Franklin Frazier | | The Franklin page on the American Sociological Association's website provides biographical information. (
http://www.asanet.org/governance/frazier.html
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St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton | | In this excerpt from his book When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (1996), William Julius Williams discusses the contributions of Drake and Cayton in Black Metropolis, their landmark study of the black community of Chicago. (
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ii961228.html
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Black Metropolis | | This webpage provides an analysis of the findings of Drake and Cayton in their masterpiece of social research, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. (
http://www.poverty.smartlibrary.org/NewInterface/segment.cfm?segment=1903
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