NEGRO YEAR BOOK: An Annual
Encyclopedia of the Negro
【黒人年鑑： 事実の記録 1913-1952】
別冊解説：大森 一輝（都留文科大学教授）
Part
1: Volumes 1–4
4 vols • 1,972 pp.
• Sept. 200９ ・ ISBN 13: 978-4-86340-034-4
定価（本体84,000円＋税）
Part 2: Volumes 5-7
4 vols ＋別冊解説• 2,322 pp. • Sept. 2010 ・ ISBN 13: 978-4-86340-035-1
予価（本体95,000円＋税）
Negro Year Bookは20世紀前半の黒人社会学者Monroe Nathan Work（1866-1945）の主要な業績として知られています。人種差別に反対する運動に事実という根拠を提供する、という考えに基づき、黒人のさまざまな社会活動や生活状況などの動向を細かく調査、記録したもので、1912年に刊行が開始され、各方面に受け入れられながら、途中で副題の変更を伴い1952年までの間にあわせて11版が刊行されました。当初は年次刊行の形態が維持されていましたが、全体としては、1910年代に五つの版（1912、1913、1914、1916、1919、いずれも刊行年）、20年代に二つ（1922、1925）、30年代に二つ（1931、1937）40年代と50年代に一つずつ（1947、1952）という状況で継続されました。
第9版までがWork自らの編集によるものです。彼が1945年に亡くなって後、Jesse Parkhurst Guzman に引き継がれて、2つの版が出ています。
本書は、初版増補版ともいえる第2版と、1919年刊行の第5版以降のすべてを復刻するもので、およそ5年から10年の間隔での調査結果が構成されたものになっています。
Volume 1 2nd Edition
(1913, enlarged and revised edition of the first 1912 ed.) 384 pp.
Volume 2 5th Edition (1919)
532 pp.
Volume 3 6th Edition (1922) 504 pp.
Volume 4 7th Edition (1925) 552 pp.
CONTENTS and examples of topics discussed vols 1–4:
Review of Events Affecting the Negro: Attempt to Prohibit Immigration of Persons of African
Descent • Negro Denominational Publishing Houses • Agitation against the
Baltimore Segregation Law • Separation of Races in Railroad Cars, Streetcars,
and Schools • Negro Suffrage from 1890 to 1912 • The “Grandfather Clause” •
Alain LeRoy Locke Wins Rhodes Scholarship • Annual Meeting of the National
Negro Business League • Is There Race Prejudice in the British West Indies? •
Emigration of Negroes into the British Northwest of Canada • Progress of Negro
and Russian Serf Compared • Negro and Mexican Labor Imported into US • National
Association of Colored Teachers • The Contributions of Negroes for Liberty
Bonds and to War Work Activities • The East St Louis, Chester, Philadelphia,
and Houston Riots • Riot Sentences Imposed on Negroes More Severe Than Those
Imposed on Whites • Not All Negroes Are Republicans • The Republican Party and
the Solid South • Negroes Condemn White Primary • Negro Women and Suffrage •
Lynching Records • The Race Problem in the US and the Negro in the World War •
Efforts to Discredit Negro Soldiers • Capitalizing “N” in the Word Negro •
Reasons for and against the Term Negro • Chinese and Japanese Restaurant
Keepers Discriminate against Negroes • The Negro and Jim Crow Cars • The
Problem of Telling Near-Whites from Whites • Agitation Continues Concerning Birth of a Nation • Work of the NAACP •
What Does the Negro Want or Expect after the War? • The Race Problem in the
West Indies • American Negro Bolsheviki Cabinet Minister • Germany Objects to
the Use of Black Soldiers • Use of Black Men for Fighting Raises Possibility of
Black Peril • Are Conditions Growing Better or Worse? • Negroes Win Honors in
Athletics • Efforts to Build Up White Republican Party in the South • Efforts
to Reduce Southern Representation in Congress • Negro Policemen and Police
Women • Poetry a Vehicle for Expression of Racial Consciousness • Use of Terms
Obnoxious to Negroes • The New Negro, What Does He Want? • The Negro’s Creed •
The Garvey Movement • The Pan-African Congress • The Negro and Radicalism • New
Attitude of Negro in Race Riots • Lynching Record • The Law and Lynching •
Eighty Per Cent of Lynchings for Crimes Other Than Rape • Ku Klux Klan • The
Race Problem in Africa • Scholarships and Other Distinctions • Negro Policemen
Urged as Means of Preventing Racial Friction • Negro National Party • Negroes
Divide Their Votes • National Negro Democratic Convention • The Negro and the
Democratic White Primary • Black Mammy Monument • Creed of American Negro Youth
• This Is Not a White Man’s Country • Objections to Methods of Handling the
Negro in Newspaper Headlines • Negro Actors in Serious Plays • Residential
Segregation • Lynching Record • When in Doubt Accuse a Negro • The Negro in
Literature • France and the Race Problem • The Race Problem in South Africa
Population of Earth by Races
The African Slave Trade ◘ Negro Slavery in the Colonies and the States ◘
Abolition
Agitation in the Colonies and the States ◘ Slavery and Religious Denominations
◘ Slave
Insurrections ◘ Date of Abolition of Slavery in Various American
Countries ◘ The Underground Railroad ◘ Negroes
Connected with Abolition and Underground Railroad ◘ Emancipation:
Negro Anti-Slavery Newspapers • Freedmen’s Bureau ◘ Civil Status of the Negro ◘ Negroes as
Explorers
Missionary Societies Working in Africa ◘ Periodicals Published by and for Africans ◘ Possessions of
European Powers in Negro Africa ◘ Select Bibliography on Africa ◘ Where Black Men
Govern: Abyssinia • Liberia • Haiti • Santo Domingo
Civil Rights:
Constitutional Amendments • Federal and State Legislation • Separation of Races
in Public Conveyances and Schools • Negro Suffrage • Legal Definition of a
Negro • Miscegenation • Labor Contracts • Vagrancy Laws
Office Holding:
First Negro Members of a State Legislature • Colored Persons Holding Federal
Offices, and in Diplomatic and Consular Service • Negro Delegates to National
Republican Conventions
Soldiers: In
Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Confederate Army, Spanish-American
War, World War I • Colored and White Registrants Compared by States • Negroes
at West Point • Negro Officers in the Regular Army • Carnegie Hero Fund
Commission Award
The Church:
Noted Negro Preachers • Negroes in Catholic Church, YMCA, YWCA, etc. • First
Churches Organized and Date of Organization of Colored Denominations
Education:
Illiteracy • Negro College Graduates • Negroes Who Have Made Phi Beta Kappa •
Charts of Expenditures for Negro Education • Finances of Negro Schools •
Institutions for Negro Women • Educational Funds • Normal and Industrial
Schools • Schools of Theology, of Law, etc. • Negro Rural Schools • Libraries
for Negroes • Secondary, Private and Higher Education
Music: The
Future of Negro Music • Ragtime • Jazz • Composers • Singers • Negro Folk Songs
• Folklore References • Prominent Band Masters • Instrumentalists • Negroes’
Creative Genius • How Certain Songs Originated ◘ Painters, Sculptors, Poets ◘ The Theatrical
World: Theatres • Prominent Shows • Organizations • Noted Actors •
Theatrical Writers
Sports:
Pugilism • Baseball • Football • Track and Field
Occupations:
Proportion of Negroes in Gainful Occupations, as Factory Workers, in Business •
Occupations of Negro Women • The Negro and Trade Unions • World War I
Conditions and Negro Occupations
Inventions:
First Negro to Receive Patent on Invention • Number of Patents Granted to
Negroes • Range of Negro Inventions
Agriculture:
Negro Farmers and Farm Property Rapidly Increasing • Principal Crops Raised by
Negroes • Federal Farm Loans • Farm Tenure • List of Agents and Home Economic
Workers under United States Farm Demonstration Work
The Negro in Business: Negro Business Men and Business Leagues • Negro Banks
• Enterprises in Which 200 or More Negroes Are Engaged • Landmarks in Negro
Business Enterprises • Negro Insurance Companies
Crime: Rate
of Crime Higher in the North • Negro Crime Rate Lower Than Rate for Emigrant
Races • Lynchings • Institutions for Juvenile Delinquents
Health:
Mortality and Birth Statistics • Health Charts • Negro Physicians and Medical
Associations • Hospitals and Nurse Training Schools • Estimated Cost of
Sickness and Death among Negroes • Necrology
Population:
Black and Mulatto Population • Marital Conditions • Migration • Black Counties
• Population in Cities • Negroes of Voting and School Age, and Illiterates by
States
Negro Towns and Settlements ◘ Homes for the Care of Adults and Children ◘ Community
Service Work for Negroes ◘ Fraternal Organizations ◘ Directory of National Organizations
◘ Directory
of Social Settlements for Negroes
Periodical Publications and Newspapers: Negro Anti-Slavery Newspapers • First
Negro Newspapers • Directory of Newspapers, Weeklies, Monthlies • News Agencies
Bibliographies
Index
Volume 5 8th Edition (1931) 558 pp.
Volume 6 9th Edition (1937) 592 pp.
Volume 7 10th Edition (1947) 724 pp.
Volume 8 11th Edition (1952) 448 pp.
CONTENTS and examples of topics discussed vols 5–8:
(1) THE NEGRO IN THE UNITED
STATES
Interracial Cooperation ◘ National Association of Colored Women ◘ Emancipation
Celebrations
Racial Consciousness: What Is the New Negro • Burlesquing the Negro in
Films and over the Radio • What Term Should Be Used to Designate the Group of
African Descent • What Is a Negro • Capitalizing the “N” in Negro • Why Should
the Negro Want a Capital Letter • Rules of Some Newspapers Relative to the Word
Negro
Race Differences and Discriminations: Discrimination in Business, Athletics, Education,
Hospitals, etc. • Negroes Establish the Right to Play in Public Golf Tournament
• Japanese Born in Africa Probably Eligible to American Citizenship • Laws for
Separation of Races in Public Conveyances • Chinese Pupils Barred from White
Schools in Mississippi Refuse to Go to Negro Schools
Residential Segregation: Right to a Home in Theory and in Practice • Court
Rules Negroes May Buy Property but Not Occupy It
Racial Relations and Racial Integrity: Is There Pollution in Mingling the Blood
of Races? • Attempt to Set Up Specific Standards for Determining Race • Is
There Such a Thing as Racial Integrity? • Definition of a Colored Person •
Census Bureau Racial Classification vs. Virginia Definition • The Negro and Texas Inheritance Law • The Definition of a Negro
According to the Statutes of Various States • Intelligence Test Methods
Examined • Racial Classifications Inexact • The Theoretical Aspects of the Race
Problem • Race Riots
The Negro and National Recovery: Number on Relief • Youth on Relief • Transient
Unemployed • Migrant Families • The NRA and the Negro • The Negro and the Soil
Conservation Act • Slum Clearance Projects, Resettlements Projects and Land
Utilization Projects for Negroes
The Negro in the National Economy: World War II Affects the Economy of the Negro •
Workers in War and Non-War Industries • The Negro Veteran in the Economy •
Early Trends in Peace-Time Employment
The Negro and World War II: In the Army, the Navy, the Naval Academy, the Air Forces • The Women’s Army Corps •
The American Red Cross • The Negro Veteran
Politics:
Negro Policemen and Policewomen • Political Appointments • Negroes in the
Diplomatic and Consular Services • Negro Members of Congress, State
Legislatures, and City Councils • Negro Judges and Justices of the Peace •
Negros and Jury Service • Efforts to Make the Negro a Political Issue • The
Negro and the Republican Party in the South • The Negro and the Democratic
Party • Views of the White Press on a Two-Party System in the South • Why the
Negro Would Divide His Vote • Emergence of the Negro “Bloc” • The Poll Tax •
The Left-Wing Vote • Un-American Activities
Agriculture:
Agricultural Extension Work • Farm Tenure • Size of Farms • Farm Population •
Share Cropper Union Movement • What Is a Fair Wage in Agriculture • Cotton
Picking Machines • The Farm Security Administration and the Negro •
Mechanization in Agriculture
Business:
Program of the National Negro Business League • Survey of Negro Business
Enterprises, Insurance Companies and Banks • C.M.A. Stores • Life Insurance as
an Investment • Negro Business and the Depression • Negro Chambers of Commerce
and Boards of Trade
Labor:
Migration Movement a Good Thing for the Negro and for the South • Negro Women
in Industry • Mexican Labor Competes with Negro Labor • Some Replacements of
Negro Labor by White Labor • The “Black Shirts” • The Negro in Domestic Service
• Negro and White Union Labor Cooperates • Communist Party Propaganda for
Organizing Negro Workers • Communist International Resolution on Negro Question
in the United States • The Issue of Communism and the Issue of Race •
Congressional Investigation of Communist Activities • Negro and Craft Unions
vs. Industrial Unions • Labor and Negro Women • Negro Labor and Wage Differentials
• New Occupations • Fair Employment Practices
Inventions ◘
Carnegie
Hero Fund Commission Awards ◘ Negro Soldiers
Sports:
Pugilism • Baseball • Football • Track and Field • Track and Field Records Held
by Negroes • Tennis
Scholastic and Other Distinctions: Negros Elected to Honorary Societies • Negroes Who
Have Received the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Other Doctorates • Negroes
in Engineering • Spingarn Achievement Awards • William E. Harmon Awards for
Distinguished Achievement among Negroes • Negroes Listed in Who’s Who of America, Who’s
Who in American Medicine, etc. • The Negro in the Natural and the Social
Sciences
Education:
National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools • US Bureau of Education
Surveys Negro Colleges • An Educational Awakening in the South • Illiteracy •
Educational Discrimination • Legal Efforts to Equalize Salaries of White and
Negro Teachers • The New York Times
Survey • Negro Teachers in White Institutions
The Church:
Independent Negro Denominations • Negro Priests in the Catholic Church • YMCA
& YWCA • Statistics of Negro Churches, Urban and Rural • Denominations and
Sects among Negroes
Crime: Crime
Rates • Juvenile Delinquents • Marked Increase in Number of Whites Committed to
Prisons in the South • Police Brutality • Some Examples of Extreme Sentences
Imposed on Negroes • Whites Sometimes Punished in South for Crimes against
Negroes • Placing Crimes of Whites on Negroes
Lynching:
Before the Civil War • Lynchings by States • Four-Fifths of Lynchings for
Crimes Other Than Rape • Causes of Lynchings Classified • Legislation
Housing, Health, and Social Welfare: Housing Situation • Federal Housing Aids • Relocating
Families Displaced by Slum Clearance • Unemployment Insurance • Child Welfare
Services • Child Labor • Public Health • Negro Social Workers
Mortality Statistics: Mortality of Negroes Prior to Civil War • Present
Trends in Negro Death Rates • Life Span of Negroes Increases Seven Years •
Birth Statistics
United States Population: Survey and Statistics of Black and Mulatto Population
• Centers of Negro Population • Movement to Cities • Negro Immigration and
Emigration • Black Belt Areas
(2) THE NEGRO IN LATIN AMERICA
Population ◘
Race Problem
◘ Virgin
Islands ◘ Republic of Santo Domingo ◘ Republic of
Haiti
(3) THE NEGRO IN EUROPE
The Colour Bar in England ◘ Germany and the Negro ◘ The Negro in French Military and Political
Service ◘ The Negro in Russia
(4) THE NEGRO IN AFRICA
Independent Governments: Empire of Abyssinia • Republic of Liberia ◘ Possessions of European Powers
European Policies and the Problem of Races: Do Africans Have Peculiar and Permanent
Characteristics? • Land Tenure Policies in Africa • The Liquor Problem •
Problems of Race in the Union of South Africa
The Labor Problem: The Color Bar in Labor, Is It Breaking Down? • South African Trade
Union Congress Refuses Affiliation with Native Trade Unions • Program of Action
for Negro Workers of the World • International Conference of Negro Workers
Forced Labor:
Demands of Labor and Socialist International Congress • Catholics and Forced
Labor of Natives • Forced Labor in Belgian, Portuguese, British and French Colonial Territories • Liberia and Forced Labor
Slavery: The
League of Nations and Slavery • Slavery in Sierra Leone, Tripoli and Libya, the Sudan and Abyssinia • The Slave Trade between Africa and
Asia
Education and Health ◘ Taxation ◘ Missions and Race Relations ◘ Africa and
Interracial Cooperation ◘ Expressions of Racial Consciousness
(5) THE NEGRO IN POETRY AND
FINE ARTS
Music: The
Future of Negro Music • The Negro’s Creative Genius • Ragtime • Jazz • The Tango,
the Rumba • Negro Folk-Songs • Composers • Singers • Instrumentalists •
Achievements in Music • Folk Music in Africa • The Negro and Popular Music • Negro Musicians and
the War Effort • Negroes in Opera
Art:
Painters • Sculptors • Students Win Prizes in Art • African Art • Alain L.
Locke’s Influence on the Development of Negro Art • Museum of Negro Art and Culture at Tuskegee Institute • Art in
Negro Colleges
Literature:
Negro Literature Characterized • Poetry • Fiction • Autobiography and Biography
The Theatre, Radio, and Moving Pictures: Actors of Distinction • The Negro on
Vaudeville Circuits • Negro Plays on Broadway • Negroes in Serious Drama and in
Motion Pictures • Negro Plays and Actors Abroad
(6) LITERATURE ON THE NEGRO: A Review of Books on or Relating to the
Negro
(7) DIRECTORY: NEWSPAPERS,
AGENCIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS
National Organizations ◘ Fraternal
Organizations ◘ Institution in the South for Negro Juvenile Delinquents
◘ Hospitals
and Nurse Training Schools ◘ Negro Towns and Settlements ◘ Social Service
Centers ◘ Newspaper Directory ◘ The Negro Press
(8) STATISTICS SHOWING RACIAL
DISTRIBUTION OF MANKIND
Index
Monroe
Nathan Workについて
Negro Year Bookの編集者Workは解放奴隷出身で、シカゴ大学で社会学を修めた人物です。シカゴ学派第一世代の学生で事実の収集や統計調査に力を発揮しました。大学卒業後はアラバマ州でDuBoisとともにナイアガラ運動に参加しますが、運動の挫折とともに改めて学究の道を志し、黒人に対する偏見を、事実を示すことで変えていこうとする立場をとり、Booker
T. Washingtonの誘いを受けて当時唯一環境の整っていたタスキーギ大学の研究職に就くことになります。Workはライバル関係にあった当時の黒人指導者二人と密接な関係を持った唯一の人物でもありました。
黒人の衛生環境の改善やリンチの防止のために、黒人と白人双方が加わった団体やその活動にも積極的に関係しながら、差別と戦う人たちに事実に関する材料を提供するという作業量の多い大きな仕事に取り組み続け、1945年5月2日に亡くなるまでに、66のリンチ報告書、9つの版のNegro Year Book、そして70以上の論文などを世に出しました。
地味な学究の人生を過ごしたワークは、後の公民権運動の基礎を築く助けをした静かな改革運動者であったと言えます。