Research Catalog

Title

The Negro American family; report of a social study made principally by the college classes of 1909 and 1910 of Atlanta University, under the patronage of the trustees of the John F. Slater Fund; together with the proceedings of the 13th annual Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University on Tuesday, May the 26th 1908.

Author

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

Publication

New York, Negro Universities Press [1969]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
• Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems (13th : 1908 : Atlanta University)

Description

156 p. illus.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Family
• Families > United States
• African Americans > Social conditions

Note

• "Originally published in 1908."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 6-8.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Marriage. Scope of this study -- Africa -- Slavery -- Present conjugal condition -- The size of the family -- Sexual morals -- The home. Africa -- Slavery -- The country home -- The village home -- The city home -- City homes of the better class -- A study of eight homes -- The evolution of the Negro home -- The economics of the family. Africa -- Slavery -- General economic condition -- Georgia -- Income -- Budgets -- Rents -- Food -- The family group. Differentiation of classes -- The Negro families of Dougherty County, Ga. -- The social life of the country -- The Negro family in New York -- A study of thirteen families -- Expenditures of laborers.

ISBN

0837113423

LCCN

^^^68055882^//r843

OCLC

10953

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library