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On its 125th anniversary, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ offers lasting lessons on gentrification in Philly’s historically Black neighborhoods

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par Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
Freeden Blume Oeur, Associate Professor of Sociology, Tufts University

Du Bois’ study, published in 1899, detailed the social conditions of poor Black residents of the Seventh Ward. The area is now home to some of Philadelphia’s ritziest neighborhoods.

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