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The Complexion Gap : The Economic Consequences of Color Among Free African Americans in the Rural Antebellum South
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2021
reveal a complexion gap in wealth accumulation. Mulattoes acquired more property than blacks, particularly at the upper end … demonstrated a greater propensity to socioeconomic advancement than dark-complected blacks …
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School Desegregation and Black Teacher Employment
Thompson, Owen - 2019
professional employment among southern blacks. The large-scale desegregation of southern schools occurring after passage of the …
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The Antebellum Roots of Distinctively Black Names
Logan, Trevon; Cook, Lisa D.; Parman, John - 2022
facts. First, the Black names identified by Cook, Logan and Parman using post-Civil War data are common names among Blacks …
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The Great Migration of Black Americans from the Us South : A Guide and Interpretation
Collins, William J. - 2022
The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime …
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Beating the Odds : Black Jockeys in the Kentucky Derby, 1870-1911
Leeds, Michael - 2019
The Kentucky Derby is the premier American horse race. The first race was held in 1875 and 13 of the 15 jockeys were African Americans. African American jockeys continued to play an important role until the turn of the 19th century when they were forced from the Kentucky Derby and the other big...
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Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress
Stevenson, Betsey - 2013
Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened … revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being among blacks relative to whites. Investigating various measures of well …-being, we find that the well-being of blacks has increased both absolutely and relative to that of whites. While a racial gap in …
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The Wrong Side(S) of the Tracks Estimating the Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on City Outcomes
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - 2008
and lower education among blacks. For whites, there is a mix of positive and negative effects: segregation decreases the …
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Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping
Card, David - 2010
A great deal of urban policy depends on the possibility of creating stable, economically and racially mixed neighborhoods. Many social interaction models - including the seminal Schelling (1971) model -- have the feature that the only stable equilibria are fully segregated. These models suggest...
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Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation
Card, David - 2010
In a classic paper, Schelling (1971) showed that extreme segregation can arise from social interactions in white preferences: once the minority share in a neighborhood exceeds a critical quot;tipping point,quot; all the whites leave. We use regression discontinuity methods and Census tract data...
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How Black Candidates Affect Voter Turnout
Washington, Ebonya L. - 2021
perception of Blacks' ideology may be a factor …
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