This volume collects W.E.B. Du Bois' sociological writings from 1898 to 1910. The selections include discussion on the conception of sociology and sociological research, especially as a tool in the struggle for racial justice along with an assessment of race relations before and after World War II.

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Dan S. Green, Edwin D. Driver. I: The Tasks of Sociology 1: The Atlanta Conferences 2: The Laboratory in Sociology at Atlanta University 3: The Twelfth Census and the Negro Problems 4: The Study of the Negro Problems 5: The Negro Race in the United States of America II: Community Studies 6: The Philadelphia Negro 7: The Black North in 1901: New York 8: The Negroes of Dougherty County, Georgia 9: The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia III: Black Culture and Creativity 10: The Negro American Family 11: The Religion of the American Negro 12: The Problem of Amusement 13: The Conservation of Races IV: Changing Patterns of Racial Relations 14: The Relations of the Negroes to the Whites in the South 15: The Social Evolution of the Black South 16: The Problem of the Twentieth Century Is the Problem of the Color Line 17: Prospect of a World without Race Conflict Notes Selected Bibliography of W. E. B. Du Bois Index