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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"The Great Migration"”.
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Variation In African American English: The Great Migration And Regional Differentiation
While African American English is among the best studied language varieties, it was historically taken to be relatively uniform, and it is only recently that regional variation in AAE has become an object of sustained study among sociolinguists. There has been as of yet no comprehensive, …
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Progress is Painful: Race Relations and Education in Chicago Before The Great Migration
This thesis is the first work focused directly on race 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 …
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Relocation & Realignment: How the Great Migration Changed the Face of the Democratic Party
… of hostility toward Black people, what motivated the Democratic Party of the 1960s to change its position on civil rights? My dissertation examines one of the most significant developments in American political history--the shift of the U.S. political parties on racial issues. In Relocation and …
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The specter of Black labor: African American workers in Illinois before the Great Migration, 1847 to 1910
The Specter of Black Labor is interested in examining the actions, reactions and opinions of Afro-Illinoisans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in relation to their own position as laborers. While previous studies on Black workers in Illinois focus heavily on African …
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Essays in public finance and labor economics
This thesis examines three questions of causality relevant to public finance and labor economics: the effect of racial segregation on city characteristics, the effect of divorce on women's economic outcomes, and the effect of abortion legalization on completed fertility. Chapter one examines the …
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Education in West Africa
The dissertation explores various aspects of education and its impact on societal dynamics. Chapter 1 delves into the challenges faced in secondary education in developing countries, particularly focusing on low completion rates. Primary education enrollment rates in developing countries have …
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Education in West Africa
The dissertation explores various aspects of education and its impact on societal dynamics. Chapter 1 delves into the challenges faced in secondary education in developing countries, particularly focusing on low completion rates. Primary education enrollment rates in developing countries have …
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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
… dissertation explores West Indian immigrants in the city of Detroit and their leadership of key institutions in the African American community from 1885 to 1940. This work is divided into two parts, with the Great Migration as the line of demarcation. The research method consists largely of …
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Locating a Black Planning Tradition and Spatializing Black Nationalism
This dissertation explores the Black planning tradition and how Muslims, particularly those in Black nationalist organizations, utilize newspapers and land to critique urban planning practice and offer alternative models of planned organization and development. The first essay in this three-essay …
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Visions of Paradise: The Migration to Oakland and Community Development Efforts of African Americans, 1900-1940
The rapid transformation of Oakland into an industrial power during the early twentieth century was accompanied by a steady increase in the 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 …
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Persistence in Residential Choice and Neighborhood Attachment
In this dissertation, I study the persistence of household residential 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 …
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Nervous Kitchens: Critical Readings of Black Women's Food Practices in The Soul Food Imaginary
Nervous Kitchens intervenes in the story of soul food by treating the kitchen as a central site of instability. These kitchens reveal and critique their importance to constructions of Black womanhood. Utilizing close readings of Black women’s culinary practices in popular televisual kitchens and …
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The Picaresque in Six Afro-American Novels
The form, characterization, narration, and subjects of Blake or The Huts of America, Home to Harlem, Native Son, Invisible Man, Quicksand, and Their Eyes Were Watching God are distinctly picaresque. The genre continues a tradition begun with the trickster tales of Africa (Anansi, the Spider and …
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Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857–1914
<p>“Building Black Manhattan” is the first study to examine the architectural contributions of Black women reformers to the urban development of New York City between the Civil War and the Great Migration. Through the construction of charitable and reform institutions throughout Manhattan, they …
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How Lupus Crossed the Color Line: Chronic Illness and the Reproduction of Racism in Health Care
The treatment of lupus speaks to the transformation of health care through civil rights and the ongoing indifference to Black pain. In one sense, the documented history of lupus dates to 400 BC, where skin diseases were commonly grouped together. In another sense, as research techniques changed, so …
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August Wilson’s Century Cycle: Preserving History and Honoring African Rituals Through the Proverb of the Sankofa
… been studied by scholars as a documentation of the history of African Americans. His ten plays in that cycle use historical events to chronicle the African American experience in America during the twentieth-century. My examination of his plays focuses on connection between the characters in his …
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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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A Black Sense of Place: Deep Mapping the Career Journeys of Black Mid-level Student Affairs Administrators
… administrators are underrepresented within the literature despite years of research on university administration. Moreover, there is significantly less knowledge about administrators of color in higher education. While the reason for their decreased prominence is unclear, Jackson and …
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Thomas A. Dorsey's influence on African-American worship
This dissertation focuses upon the background of African-American worship during the 1930s which served as the Sitz im Leben for Dorsey. This dissertation examines how Charles Albert Tindley's gospel hymn singing tradition influenced Dorsey to create and perpetuate gospel music as a theologically …
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Sacred Freedom: Sustaining Afrocentric Spiritual Jazz in 21St Century Chicago
<p>This dissertation explores the historical and ideological headwaters of a certain form of Great Black Music that I call Afrocentric spiritual jazz in Chicago. However, that label is quickly expended as the work begins by examining the resistance of these Black musicians to any label. I theorize …
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