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Matar negros, hacer blancos : los colores y los nombres del enemigo en las guerras civiles de la España contemporánea

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie V, Historia Contemporánea, 2008
La guerra civil, omnipresente en numerosos países europeos a lo largo del siglo XIX, estuvo presidida por una guerra de colores. La lucha entre revolucionarios y contrarrevolucionarios se representó en colores, frecuentemente en fuerte contraste.
Jordi Canal
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Why are Latinos More Politically Trusting than Other Americans? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper examines why Latinos, over the past thirty years, are consistently more trusting of the federal government than are Anglos and Blacks. We address this puzzle by turning to previous research on racial politics and political trust.
Abrajanoa, Marisa, Alvarez, R. Michael
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Educational Attainment and Exercise Frequency in American Women; Blacks’ Diminished Returns [PDF]

open access: yesWomen’s Health Bulletin, 2019
Background: Minorities’ diminished returns (MDRs) refer to smaller protects health effects of socioeconomic status (SES) indicators for Blacks and other minority groups than Whites. Objectives: The current study aimed to explore Black - White differences
Shervin Assari
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Young Black America Part One: High School Completion Rates are at their Highest Ever [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
By most measures, the educational attainment of blacks is currently at the highest it has ever been. After decades of stagnation, high school completion rates for blacks have increased rapidly since 2000.
Cherrie Bucknor
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Racial Sorting and Neighborhood Quality [PDF]

open access: yes
In cities throughout the United States, blacks tend to live in significantly poorer and lower-amenity neighborhoods than whites. An obvious first-order explanation for this is that an individual%u2019%u2019s race is strongly correlated with socioeconomic
Patrick Bayer, Robert McMillan
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[Review of] Philip S. Foner and Josephine F. Pacheco. Three Who Dared: Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner-Champions of Antebellum Black Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
Foner and Pacheco have written biographical sketches of three women who endured personal hardship and suffered persecution because they decided to teach non-slave black children in antebellum America. While the three teachers, Prudence Crandall, Margaret
Laughlin, Margaret A.
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Third Generation Disadvantage among Mexican Americans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Among Mexican Americans, generational differences in education do not fit with assimilation theory’s predictions of significant improvement from the second to third generation; instead, education for third generation remains similar to the second ...
Ortiz, Vilma, Telles, Edward
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Approaches and perspectives on the independence and formation period of the State of Nuevo Reino de Granada, 1780-1816

open access: yesHistoria y Sociedad, 2012
This article presents a synthesis of different approaches that historians and the authorraised in order to reinterpret the transition period between the old colonial regime and the birth of the republic in the Viceroyalty of New Granada.
Catalina Reyes Cárdenas
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Education and Labor-Market Discrimination [PDF]

open access: yes
We propose a model that combines statistical discrimination and educational sorting that explains why blacks get more education than do whites of similar cognitive ability.
Kevin Lang, Michael Manove
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Young Black America Part Three: Employment, Unemployment, and the Incomplete Recovery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
As documented in parts one and two of this series, young blacks are completing high school and college at higher rates than in the past. This third installment and subsequent reports will examine whether these increases in educational attainment have led
Cherrie Bucknor
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