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

SES-0902399玛丽PattilloMarcus亨特西北大学本论文项目，W.E.B.的历史民族志重访。杜波依斯的费城黑人（1899 [1996]），研究了社会政治和文化因素，引起了种族和社会经济的变化，在费城一般，特别是第七区，杜波依斯的主要领域网站。使用第七区-一个最古老的黑人城市社区和第一个社区的任何一种被广泛研究的美国社会学家-作为一个案例研究，本研究的重点是回答以下问题：如何异质性和居住决定的黑人在费城影响邻里变化和模式的城市内迁移从1880年到2000年？虽然许多学者都集中在国家经济趋势和政策决定，这项研究的重点是什么黑人互相说，他们之间的决定作为核心的城市邻里变化的理解。 此外，虽然其他研究认为一个城市的城市变化的一个历史时期，这项研究图表的影响，黑人迁移北部和内部分裂在费城？美国的黑人社区和城市内的移民模式在许多历史时期都发生了变化。 为了揭示黑人的异质性和居住习惯对邻里变化的影响，本研究研究了第七区在两个经验驱动的时间点之间的社会政治历史，这两个时间点来自人口普查数据和城市社会学文献：1880,这标志着第七区作为一个黑人住宅区的突出地位，并开始了一段时间的增加-2000年，南方黑人移民到费城的人数增加，紧接着杜波依斯的研究，2000年，标志着黑人居民的消失，并遵循百年纪念版的费城黑人（1996年）的出版。 该项目使用档案数据（如人口普查数据，当地报纸，机构记录，城市和邻里地图，教堂记录和口述历史）和二手数据位于费城，宾夕法尼亚州和华盛顿特区更广泛的影响：这项研究揭示了黑人移民的持久和潜在的影响，无论是在费城和类似的城市。虽然社会现象的潜在和持久的影响，特别是那些涉及群众运动，往往是不透明的，难以跟踪，这项研究有助于澄清这些影响及其对当前和未来的城市黑人的空间流动性的影响。强调黑人移民模式和种族内分歧的影响，这项研究有望产生有关当代空间格局和城市变化的信息。 这项研究也将有助于了解当代城市黑人向南迁移的潜在影响。

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.