Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New YorkOvington, Mary White
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Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York
Ovington, Mary White
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York
[4] Careful readers of economic Negro studies by white writers will
notice this tendency to look upon the Negro as belonging to a servile
class. Emphasis is laid upon his responsibilities to the white man, not
upon the white man's responsibilities to him. Any one familiar with the
sympathetic attitude toward the workers in such a study as the
_Pittsburg Survey_ will notice at once the difference in attitude in
Negro surveys by whites, the slight emphasis laid upon the black
laborers' long hours and poor pay, and the failure to emphasize the
white man's responsibility. Negro laborers are still studied from the
viewpoint of the capitalist. There is one notable exception to this, the
study by the governor of Jamaica, Sir Sidney Olivier, on "White Capital
and Coloured Labor."
APPENDIX
The federal census in 1900 contained a volume on the Negro in the United
States, a source of information quoted by nearly every writer on the
American Negro. The tables in that volume, however, do not classify by
cities, and any one desiring information regarding the Negro in some
especial city must search through other volumes. As this is a lengthy
task, I am affixing a list of the tables in the census of 1900, treating
of the Negro in New York City, believing that it may also be a guide to
students of the new census of 1910, who wish to find New York Negro
statistics.
Population. Vol. I, Part I. Published 1901.
Page 868, Table 57. Aggregate, white, and colored population
distributed according to native or foreign parentage, for cities
having 25,000 inhabitants or more: 1900.
Page 934, Table 81. Total males twenty-one years of age and over,
classified by general nativity, color, and literacy, for cities
having 25,000 inhabitants or more: 1900.
Vol. II. Published 1902.
Page 163, Table 19. Persons of school age, five to twenty years,
inclusive, by general nativity and color, for cities having 25,000
inhabitants or more: 1900. Also, pages 165 and 167, Tables 20 and
21.
Page 332, Table 32. Conjugal condition of the aggregate population,
classified by sex, general nativity, color, and age periods, for
cities having 100,000 inhabitants or more: 1900.
Page 397, Table 54. Negro persons attending school during the
census year, classified by sex and age periods, for cities having
25,000 inhabitants or more: 1900.
Page 737, Table 111. Persons owning and hiring their homes,
classified by color, for cities having 100,000 inhabitants or more:
1900.
Vital Statistics. Vol. III. Published 1902.
Page 458, Table 19. Population, births, deaths, and death rates at
certain ages, and deaths from certain causes, by sex, color,
general nativity, and parent nativity: census year 1900.
Occupations. Published 1904.
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