Table of Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
The Sociological Souls of Black Folk: Editor's Introduction xiii
Part 1 The Sociological Souls of Black Folk 1
1 Strivings of the Negro People 3
2 A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South 9
3 The Religion of the American Negro 17
4 The Freedman's Bureau 27
5 The Negro as He Really Is 41
6 The Evolution of Negro Leadership 55
7 The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South 59
8 Of the Training of Black Men 73
Part 2 Contextual Sociological Essays: 1897-1900 85
9 The Negro in Business: Results of the Investigation 87
10 The Negro and Crime 103
11 The American Negro at Paris 107
12 The Conservation of Races 111
13 Careers Open to College-Bred Negroes 121
14 The Problem of Amusement 133
15 The Negro in the Black Belt: Some Social Sketches 143
16 The Georgia Negro: A Social Study-Editor's Reconstruction 163
Editor's Bibliography 197
Bibliography of W.E.B. Du Bois' Early Sociological Studies: 1897-1902 203
Index 207