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The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Studyby W. E. B. Du Bois
Synopses & ReviewsBook News Annotation:Twenty-three research papers written by Liberman and colleagues at
Haskins Laboratories charts the techniques, methods and insights
discovered about speech perception over a period of five decades. The
topics span a number of research dilemmas, for example creating
machine produced speech in 1944 when technology had not risen to the
researchers' imagination level. Other subjects such as speech
perception research, motor theory research, and investigations in
auditory and phonetic modes, are shown in process, i.e. the errors
and reversals as well as the successes.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct in-depth studies of the Negro community in Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society. More than one hundred years after its original publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press, The Philadelphia Negro remains a classic work. It is the first, and perhaps still the finest, example of engaged sociological scholarship--the kind of work that, in contemplating social reality, helps to change it. In his introduction, Elijah Anderson examines how the neighborhood studied by Du Bois has changed over the years and compares the status of blacks today with their status when the book was initially published. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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