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The southern diaspora : how the great migrations of Black and White Southerners transformed America / James N. Gregory.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gregory, James N. (James Noble)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Migration, Internal.
- Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Migrations--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- United States--Population--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (463 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Weaving together the histories of black and white migrants, this book traces their paths and experiences, and demonstrates how this diaspora reshaped America by "southernizing" communities and transforming cultural and political institutions. It also shows how both black and white southerners used their new surroundings to become agents of change.
- Contents:
- A century of migration
- Migration stories
- Success and failure
- The Black metropolis
- Uptown and beyond
- Gospel highways
- Leveraging civil rights
- Re-figuring conservatism
- Great migrations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-426) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890872739
- 9780807876855
- 0807876852
- OCLC:
- 476236795
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