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“Separate, Therefore Equal”: American Spatial Segregation from Jim Crow to Kiryas Joel
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2021 In rejecting Plessy v. Ferguson’s “separate but equal” doctrine in Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court created a presumption that segregation equals discrimination. However, alongside this assertion, American space has become increasingly
Shai Stern
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation
Columbia Journal of Race and Law, 2023 With billions of dollars pledged and trillions of dollars demanded to redress slavery and Jim Crow (“Black Reparations”) the question of how best to use these funds has moved into the forefront of the ongoing campaign for racial justice in our post ...
Roy Brooks
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The Great Migration in Myth and Reality
Quaderni di Sociologia, 2020 The founders of professional sociology in the United States constructed a system of racial segregation that paralleled the Jim Crow system in the American South.
Michael Schwartz
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Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
Southern Spaces, 2010 David Lindsey and friends, Goin' to Chicago, 2000. This multimedia essay presents two excerpts and accompanying commentary from the film Goin' to Chicago, a documentary which takes as its subject the African American migration out of the Jim Crow ...
George King
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Jim Crow\u27s Unwritten Code [PDF]
, 2015 In The Jim Crow Routine, historian Stephen Berrey brings fresh eyes to the intricate set of legal rules that maintained racial segregation in the American South.
Walker, Anders
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No Apologies? The Role of Apology for Structural‐Historical Injustice
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During this era of political apologies, a new literature has emerged in historical injustice interrogating the relationship between structural and historical injustice, with various theories conceptualising the relationship in different ways. Interestingly, ‘apology’ rarely appears in this literature.
Maeve McKeown
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The American Jockey, 1865-1910
Transatlantica, 2012 American jockeys for most of the nineteenth century were African Americans. It was a dangerous occupation that paid extremely well for successful jockeys.
Steven A. Riess
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of our study is to examine how migrant labour shifts due to the COVID‐19 pandemic influenced the adaptation behaviour of climate‐vulnerable farmers in Nepal. We examine how the resulting temporary change in climate change adaptation behaviour may be sustainable and improved after migrant labour returns to overseas employment by ...
Amrit Shrestha +4 more
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Rereading Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” as a Tale of Jim Crow America
Journal of the Short Story in English, 2022 Scholars have commonly placed Jackson’s fiction in the New England Gothic tradition. Her famous short story “The Lottery” is a case in point: universally seen as set in New England, it is often interpreted in the context of the region’s dark Puritan past.
Terence N. Bowers
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