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)

珍娜•莱文（Janna Levin），知名天体物理学家，MIT博士，哥伦比亚大学物理学和天文学教授，一直致力于黑洞、时空与引力波的研究。同时也是布鲁克林艺术与科学中心“先锋工厂”的科学总监，这是一个占地约3000平方英尺的文化中心，集艺术、音乐、电影和科学于一体，致力于跨领域的实验、教育与创新。她也新任艾美奖提名的NOVA专题片《黑洞启示录》的主持人，在此之前NOVA的主持人一直为男性。 《纽约时报书评》称珍娜•莱文为“一位用精湛技巧使科学与生活完美和谐的作家”。她的作品也受到了因直接探测到引力波而荣获诺贝尔物理奖的LIGO团队主要成员赞许，其领队之一也是科幻电影《星际穿越》的执行制片人基普•索恩。 她的作品屡获殊荣： 《宇宙斑点从哪里来》（广受好评的科普书）； 《图灵机器的狂人梦》（本书也获得了美国笔会新人小说奖，她也因此获得2012年的古根海姆奖...(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)

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)

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。