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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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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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Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement [PDF]

, 2012
It is a pleasure to comment on Nancy MacLean's hugely important book Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace as an example of what I might call “bringing the law back in” to the history of the civil rights movement. A generation ago,
Mack, Kenneth W.
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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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Fostering Inclusive Excellence: Reimagining Oral Science Research and Admissions to Advance Dentistry During Perilous Times

Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose: Recent shifts in public policy and legislation have aimed to dismantle progress toward racial equity in the United States, especially within the realm of education. Dental education institutions are responsible for cultivating the oral healthcare workforce of the future, but their ability to meet the growing dental burden is hampered ...
RK, JB, YK, DG
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Algorithmic Jim Crow [PDF]

, 2017
This Article contends that current immigration- and security-related vetting protocols risk promulgating an algorithmically driven form of Jim Crow.
Hu, Margaret
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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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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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The New Jim Crow [PDF]

, 2011
The mass incarceration of poor people of color represents a new American caste system that is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways it was once legal to discriminate against
Michelle Alexander
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Strategic Afro-Modernism, Dynamic Hybridity, and Bebop's Socio-Political Significance [PDF]

, 2013
In this chapter, I argue that one can articulate a historically attuned and analytically rich model for understanding jazz in its various inflections. That is, on the one hand, such a model permits us to affirm jazz as a historically conditioned, dynamic
Nielsen, Cynthia R.
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