316 pages : 24 cm

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"March 2000."

"The articles were prepared for a conference titled 'The Study of African American Problems, ' held at the University of Pennsylvania on February 23 and 24, 1999"--Preface (p.7)

Includes reprint of W.E.B. Du Bois's prospectus "The Study of the Negro Problem," first printed in "The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science," January 1898

Includes bibliographical references and index

Preface / Elijah Anderson -- Introduction: the study of African American problems / Tukufu Zuberi -- Study of the Negro problems / W E Burghardt Du Bois -- Black feminists and Du Bois: respectability, protection, and beyond / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- Gender, Black feminism, and Black political economy / Patricia Hill Collins -- Emerging Philadelphia African American class structure / Elijah Anderson -- Rising inequality and the case for coalition politics / William Julius Wilson -- Du Bois as a social activist: why we are not saved / Mary Frances Berry -- Race poverty, and welfare: Du Bois's legacy for policy / Michael B Katz -- Identity and economic performance / Gerald D Jaynes -- Anthropology: from bones to the human genome / James E Bowman -- Anthropological measurement: the mismeasure of African Americans / Fatimah L C Jackson -- Deracializing social statistics: problems in the quantification of race / Tukufu Zuberi -- Reclaiming a Du Boisian perspective on racial attitudes / Lawrence D Bobo -- W E B Du Bois and the encyclopedia Africana, 1909-63 / Henry Louis Gates, Jr -- Being an African in the world: the Du Boisian epistemology / Anthony Monteiro -- W E B Du Bois and the "Negro Church" / Barbara Dianne Savage -- Romancing the body politic: Du Bois's propaganda of the dark world / Herman Beavers -- Du Bois's humanistic philosophy of human sciences / Lewis R Gordon -- W E B Du Bois on the study of social problems / Lucius T Outlaw, Jr -- Washington and Du Bois leadership paradigms reconsidered / Martin Kilson -- Index

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