The goals of the essay are to provide 1. a means of organizing one’s thoughts about the readings; 2. practice writing in an argumentative form and 3. offer personal insight into problems effecting minority groups. Of course the essay must be entirely your work no plagiarism. Essay 1. W.E.B Du Bois’ Philadelphia Negro (1899) is one of the great works of American sociology and among the first to tackle one of the minority ?problems? which defined 20th century politics. What was the ?Negro problem? in Philadelphia and what did Du Bois do to study the problem? Be sure to draw on other class materials in order to describe the social and legal context, and the sociological theory and goals with which Du Bois was working. Link to book below. No outside work, your own words only. http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/DSS/DuBois/pntoc.html
