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Wealth and Asset Building: Black Facts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
African American households lost 53% of their net worth between 2005 to 2009 compared to only16% of whites for the same time period. That translates into African Americans only having $17,100 in wealth compared to $170,400 for whites.

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Racialized Landscapes of Tourism: From Jim Crow USA to Apartheid South Africa

open access: yesBulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2020
Tourism studies, including by geographers, give only minor attention to historically-informed research. This article contributes to the limited scholarship on tourism development in South Africa occurring during the turbulent years of apartheid (1948 to ...
Rogerson Christian M., Rogerson Jayne M.
doaj   +1 more source

Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025).
John R. Bartle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resistance to Marginalization in America as Reflected in Kathryn Stockett's 'The Help'

open access: yesRainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture, 2020
Slavery and racial segregation are two important events that shaped American history. Although slavery had been abolished constitutionally by the Thirteenth Amendment, racial segregation remained existing in some southern states of the US until Civil ...
Devita Normalisa, Mohamad Ikhwan Rosyidi
doaj   +1 more source

A Hundred Thousand Darlingtons: Self‐Respect, Moral Judgement, and the Right to an Equal Democratic Say

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
wiley   +1 more source

Symbolic racism against black people among black and white Americans: A system justification account

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Using three nationally representative, probability samples of Americans (Ns range from 848 to 20,728), we examined the endorsement of symbolic racism against Black people among both Black and White Americans through the lens of system justification.
Alexandra Suppes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

#Black Lives Matter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This short story begins with a reference to the tragic killing of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his killer as part of a pattern of behavior that shouts loud and clear: “black lives don’t matter”.
Davary, Bahar
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Learning the Fighting Game: Black Americans and the First World War

open access: yes, 2015
The experience of African American veterans of the First World War is most often cast through the bloody lens of the Red Summer of 1919, when racial violence and lynchings reached record highs across the nation as black veterans returned from the global ...
Instituto agrícola Murciano de San Isidro   +1 more
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Engaging the Public with and Preserving the History of Texas’s First Public Historically Black University

open access: yesKULA, 2018
The silences and erasures surrounding the histories of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in many instances are caused by limited technology, lack of financial resources, and, most importantly, institutional priorities.
Marco Robinson, Phyllis Earles
doaj   +1 more source

“A Whale of a Chance”: Thomas E. Dewey, the U.S. South, and the Election of 1948

open access: yesPresidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Republican Party's campaign in the South in 1948. It argues that many national and state Republicans believed that there was a real opportunity for the party's presidential candidate, Thomas E. Dewey, to win Border South states.
Lewis Johnson
wiley   +1 more source

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