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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Great Migration"”.
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Variation In African American English: The Great Migration And Regional Differentiation
… it patterns with movement of people during the Great Migration, and that it cannot be characterized solely by the presence or absence of the proposed African American Vowel Shift. To do so, I introduced a novel reading passage specifically designed to elicit naturalistic AAE speech, read by …
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Progress is Painful: Race Relations and Education in Chicago Before The Great Migration
… relations and education in Chicago before the Great Migration. Proceeding from the dearth of sources covering black Chicago before the First World War era, I argue three main points. First, I disagree with historians who assert that because African-Americans received certain educational …
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Relocation & Realignment: How the Great Migration Changed the Face of the Democratic Party
… issues. In Relocation and Realignment: How the Great Migration changed the face of the Democratic Party, I argue that increasing competition between the parties for the presidency and the mass movement of Black people out of the South coincided to drive the Democratic Party's change on racial …
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The specter of Black labor: African American workers in Illinois before the Great Migration, 1847 to 1910
… the largely understudied period prior to the Great Migration. By utilizing a racial formation theoretical framework, this project seeks to provide a foundation for a critical examination of race as it acquires different meanings, depending on specific historic circumstances. The contention …
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Education in West Africa
… the effect of an increase in blacks during the Great Migration (1940-1970) on crime during the Great Migration and post-great Migration. Between 1940 and 1970, more than four million blacks moved north. This massive movement created a change in the racial composition of destination places. Using …
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Education in West Africa
… the effect of an increase in blacks during the Great Migration (1940-1970) on crime during the Great Migration and post-great Migration. Between 1940 and 1970, more than four million blacks moved north. This massive movement created a change in the racial composition of destination places. Using …
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Essays in public finance and labor economics
… the level of segregation that ensued after the Great Migration of African-Americans to northern and western cities in the 20th century. Prior to the Great Migration, however, track configurations were uncorrelated with racial concentration, income, education and population, indicating that …
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Higher than those of their race of less fortunate advantages:Race, ethnicity, and West Indian political leadership in Detroit's African American community, 1885-1940
… This work is divided into two parts, with the Great Migration as the line of demarcation. The research method consists largely of collective biographies and a survey of periodicals, census records, and records generated by the institutions that had West Indian leaders. The dissertation …
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Flood of Change: the Vanport Flood and Race Relations in Portland, Oregon
… amid dramatic social changes caused by the migration of African Americans and other Southerners into Portland, Oregon during World War II. The migrants lived in a housing project named Vanport and an exploration behind Portlanders’ negative opinion of newcomers will be undertaken. A history …
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Locating a Black Planning Tradition and Spatializing Black Nationalism
… life for Muslims and non-Muslims during the Great Migration. The second essay draws on economic theological doctrine and newspaper advertisements to map the economic footprint of the Nation of Islam. The third essay interrogates the history of a single parcel of land to understand the …
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Visions of Paradise: The Migration to Oakland and Community Development Efforts of African Americans, 1900-1940
… African American population as a result of the Great Migration. Several factors contributed to Oakland's popularity as a West Coast destination and by 1940 the city contained the second largest Black population in the state. Upon arrival, African American migrants shaped their community through …
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Persistence in Residential Choice and Neighborhood Attachment
… choice using data from Boston during the Great Migration, where the in-migration of African Americans was a large demographic shock to existing neighborhood composition. Using novel panel data that tracks individual residential choices, I document stark differences in out-migration …
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Nervous Kitchens: Critical Readings of Black Women's Food Practices in The Soul Food Imaginary
… but also the ways that histories of enslavement, migration, and domesticity are disseminated through fictionalized representations of Black women in the kitchen offering comfort through food. The project explores how images of these kitchens adhere to and diverge from the imaginary's four …
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The Picaresque in Six Afro-American Novels
… of the picaresque: flights from slavery and the Great Migration; "masking"; a marginal economic and social status; satire at the expense of masters; victimization; the outsider-victim as hero; the manipulation of language; the primacy of community; exclusion as a threat to emotional wholeness and …
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Detroit blues women
… century relates to two different types of migration, the first being the very physical and concrete Great Migration of 1910 to 1930 that brought blues music and many southern African Americans north. The second migration was the more abstract, aesthetic, transcendent journey that took blues …
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Racialized Perceptions: a Comparative Study of Symbolic Racism in Europe
… a relationship with the African Diaspora and/or Great Migration of North Africans and Caribbean. Furthermore, symbolic racism is present where the state has laws implemented that prohibit actions of overt racism, old-fashion racism, and discrimination. Thus, this thesis examines symbolic racism …
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Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857–1914
… of New York City between the Civil War and the Great Migration. Through the construction of charitable and reform institutions throughout Manhattan, they articulated a strategy of racial uplift through deliberate spatial construction.</p> <p>As reform work was one of the very few arenas in the …
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How Lupus Crossed the Color Line: Chronic Illness and the Reproduction of Racism in Health Care
… With the transformations that came with the Great Migration and the Medical Civil Rights Movement, Black people started getting more access to medical facilities that were previously “white only.” Now that Blacks had access to more equitable healthcare, awareness of Black health and Black …
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August Wilson’s Century Cycle: Preserving History and Honoring African Rituals Through the Proverb of the Sankofa
… Chapter 3 demonstrates the effects of the Great Migration through the characters in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Chapter 4 illustrates the history of blues music that is present in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Seven Guitars. Chapter 5 covers the period of integration using the story of …
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Hope and Struggle in the Policed Inner-City: Black Criminalization and Racial Capitalism in Philadelphia, 1914-1978
During the Great Migration (1916-1970) of African Americans to the North, Philadelphia’s police department, journalists, and city officials used news media to disseminate crime narratives laced with statistics and racial stereotypes of “black invasions,” “urban neighborhood jungles,” “roving black …
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