The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial EvolutionThompson, Holland
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The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution
Thompson, Holland
Southern States -- Economic conditions; Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951; Southern States -- Social conditions
The number of books, pamphlets, and special articles upon this subject,
written by Northerners, Southerners, negroes, and even foreigners, is
enormous. These publications range from displays of hysterical
emotionalism to statistical studies, but no one book can treat fully all
phases of so complex a question. Bibliographies have been prepared by
W. E. B. Du Bois, A. P. C. Griffin, and others. W. L. Fleming has
appended a useful list of titles to Reconstruction of the Seceded States
(1905).
F. L. Hoffman, a professional statistician of German birth, in Race
Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro (1896), has collected much
valuable material but all his conclusions cannot be accepted without
question. Special Bulletins on the negro are published by the United
States Census Bureau, of which the issues for 1904 and 1915 should
especially be consulted. Some of the Publications of Atlanta University
contain valuable studies of special localities or occupations.
Several negroes have written histories of their race. George W.
Williams's History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, 2
vols. (1883), is old but contains material of value. William H. Thomas,
in The American Negro (1901), is pessimistic as to the future because of
the moral delinquencies of his people. Booker T. Washington's The Story
of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery (1909), on the other
hand, emphasizes achievements rather than deficiencies and is optimistic
in tone. Of this writer's several other books, the Future of the
American Negro (1899) is the most valuable. Kelly Miller has written
Race Adjustment (1908) and An Appeal to Conscience (1918), besides many
articles and monographs all marked by excellent temper. On the other
hand, W. E. B. Du Bois, in The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and in his
other writings, voices the bitterness of one to whom the color line has
proved an "intolerable indignity."
Ray Stannard Baker in Following the Color Line (1908) gives the
observations of a trained metropolitan journalist and is eminently sane
in treatment. William Archer, the English author and journalist
expresses a European point of view in Through Afro-America (1910). Carl
Kelsey's The Negro Farmer (1903) is a careful study of agricultural
conditions in eastern Virginia. A collection of valuable though unequal
papers is contained in the Annals of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science under The Negro's Progress in Fifty Years, No. 138
(1913) and America's Race Problem (1901).
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