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 afte...(展开全部)

The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic selling more than one million copies, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis- that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior-and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in famili...(展开全部)

First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books ). In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholar...(展开全部)

This book, originally published in 1974 by Little, Brown and Company, is a sweeping reexamination of the economic foundations of American Negro slavery. Based upon a vast research effort, this volume constitutes an entirely new portrayal of slavery's past. It challenges traditional assumptions about the material condition and management of slaves, their work habits, domestic we...(展开全部)

Jorge Amado escreveu O Gato Malhado e a Andorinha Sinhá em 1948, para o seu filho João Jorge, quando este completou um ano de idade. O texto andou perdido, e só em 1978 conheceu a sua primeira edição, depois de ter sido recuperado pelo filho e levado a Carybé para ilustrar. Com ilustrações belíssimas, para um belíssimo texto, a história de amor d'O Gato Malhado e da Andorinha S...(展开全部)

艾略特·列堡，曾担任国家精神卫生研究所劳动与精神健康研究中心的负责人。《泰利的街角》是作为列堡在美国天主教大学的博士论文而写作的。他还在1993年出版了《告诉他们我是谁》，这是一项有关美国无家可归妇女的研究。