Doctoral Dissertation Research: Intra-Neighborhood Dynamics and Neighborhood Change in Philadelphia (1880-2000)

SES-0902399玛丽·帕蒂洛·马库斯·亨特西北大学本论文项目是对W.E.B.Dubois的《费城黑人》(1899[1996])的历史民族志重访，考察了引起费城种族和社会经济变化的社会政治和文化因素，特别是第七区，Dubois的主要实地考察地点。这项研究以第七区--美国社会学家广泛研究的最古老的城市黑人社区之一和第一个任何类型的社区--为例，重点回答了以下问题：从1880年到2000年，费城黑人的异质性和居住决定如何影响社区变化和城市内移民的模式？虽然许多学者关注的是国家经济趋势和政策决策，但这项研究关注的是黑人之间的对话和他们之间的决定，这是理解城市社区变化的核心。此外，尽管其他研究考虑的是城市变化的一个历史时期，但本研究绘制了多个历史时期费城-S黑人社区北部黑人移民和内部划分以及城市内部移民模式对社区变化的影响。为了揭示黑人的异质性和居住习惯对社区变化的影响，本研究研究了来自人口普查数据和城市社会学文献的两个经验性时间点之间的第七区的社会政治史：1880年标志着第七区作为黑人住宅区的突出地位，并开始了一个时期，南部黑人移民进入费城的移民增加的增加，紧接在杜博伊斯的研究之前，以及2000年，标志着黑人居民的消失，紧随《费城黑人》(1996)的百年版出版。该项目使用档案数据(例如，人口普查数据、当地报纸、机构记录、城市和社区地图、教堂记录和口述历史)和位于费城、宾夕法尼亚州和华盛顿特区的二级数据。布罗德影响：这项研究揭示了进入费城和类似城市的黑人移民的持久和潜在影响。虽然社会现象的潜在和持久影响，特别是那些涉及大规模流动的社会现象，往往是不透明的，很难追踪，但这项研究有助于澄清这些影响及其对城市黑人当前和未来空间流动性的影响。这项研究强调了黑人迁徙模式和种族内部分歧的影响，承诺提供与当代空间模式和城市变化相关的信息。这项研究也将对理解当代城市黑人向南迁移的潜在影响具有指导意义。

SES-0902399Mary PattilloMarcus HunterNorthwestern UniversityThis dissertation project, a historical ethnographic revisit of W.E.B. DuBois' The Philadelphia Negro (1899 [1996]), examines the socio-political and cultural factors that gave rise to racial and socioeconomic change in Philadelphia generally and specifically the 7th Ward, DuBois' primary field site. Using the 7th Ward -- one of the oldest black urban neighborhoods and first neighborhood of any kind to be studied extensively by an American sociologist -- as a case study, this study focuses on answering the following question: How did the heterogeneity and residential decisions of blacks in Philadelphia affect neighborhood change and patterns of within-city migration from 1880 to 2000? While many scholars have focused on national economic trends and policy decisions, this research focuses on what black people were saying to each other and the decisions amongst themselves as central to an understanding of urban neighborhood change. Furthermore, while other studies consider one historical period of urban change in a city, this research charts the effects of the black migration north and internal divisions within Philadelphia?s black community and patterns of within-city migration on neighborhood change over many historical periods. To uncover the effects of the heterogeneity and residential practices of blacks on neighborhood change, this research studies the socio-political history of the 7th Ward between two empirically driven time points derived from census data and urban sociological literature: 1880, which marks the prominence of the 7th Ward as a black residential neighborhood and begins a period of increased in-migration rise of southern black migrants to Philadelphia and immediately precedes DuBois' study, and 2000, which marks the disappearance of black residents and follows the publication of the centennial edition of The Philadelphia Negro (1996). The project uses archival data (e.g. census data, local newspapers, institutional records, city and neighborhood maps, church records and oral histories) and secondary data located in Philadelphia, Pa and Washington D.C.Broader Impacts: This research sheds light on the lasting and latent effects of black migration both into and within Philadelphia and cities of the like. While latent and lasting effects of social phenomena, particularly those involving mass movement, are often opaque and difficult to track, this research helps to clarify these effects and their implications for the current and future spatial mobility of urban blacks. Highlighting the impact of black migratory patterns and intra-racial divisions this research promises to yield information pertinent to contemporary spatial patterns and urban changes. This study will also be instructive for understanding the potential effects of contemporary migration south by urban blacks.