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Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Narrative » Read Now
by Farah Jasmine Griffin. 236 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in...
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Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes an interdisciplinary approach with readings of several literary texts, migrant correspondence, painting, photography, rap music, blues, and rhythm and blues. From these various sources Griffin isolates the tropes of Ancestor, Stranger, and Safe Space, which, though common to all Migration Narratives, vary in their portrayal. She argues that the emergence of a dominant portrayal of these tropes is the product of the historical and political moment, often challenged by alternative portrayals in other texts or artistic forms, as well as intra-textually. Richard Wright's bleak, yet cosmopolitan portraits were countered by Dorothy West's longing for Black Southern communities. Ralph Ellison, while continuing Wright's vision, reexamined the significance of Black Southern culture. Griffin concludes with Toni Morrison embracing the South "as a site of African-American history and culture," "a place to be redeemed."
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Promise and Prejudice: Wise County, Virginia and the Great Migration, 1910-1920, in The Journal of Negro History » Read Now
by Michael H. Burchett. 16 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...place."(24) The nature of black migration into central Appalachia and...NOTES 1 Florette Henri, Black Migration: Movement North, 1900-1920...in actual numbers compared to...
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The African American "Great Migration" and Beyond, in Annual Review of Sociology » Read Now
by Stewart E. Tolnay. 24 pgs.

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The Great Migration of Afro-Americans, 1915-40, in Monthly Labor Review » Read Now
by Spencer R. Crew. 3 pgs.

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...a generation of black leaders who struggled...participated in the migration tended to settle...likely candidates for migration. After the end...turned their backs on black...
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From Mississippi to Milwaukee: A Case Study of the Souther Black Migration to Milwaukee, 1940-1970, in The Journal of Negro History » Read Now
by Paul Geib. 20 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...A CASE STUDY OF THE SOUTHERN BLACK MIGRATION TO MILWAUKEE, 1940-1970...studies by historians appeared on black migration, one of Chicago by Allan Spear...published at a...
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Sea Island to City: A Study of St. Helena Islanders in Harlem and Other Urban Centers » Read Now
by Clyde Vernon Kiser. 262 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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The Harder We Run: Black Workers since the Civil War (Chap. 3 "Northward Migration and the Origins of an Urban Industrial Class") » Read Now
by William H. Harris. 260 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...massive northern migrations in the early twentieth...century. 21 Black forestry workers...coal. In short, migration of black workers from the...feature of the new...
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Not Slave, Not Free: The African American Economic Experience since the Civil War (Chap. 6 "Leaving the South") » Read Now
by Jay R. Mandle. 140 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...scarcity which resulted from black migration in turn triggered the mechanization...hypotheses necessarily Table 4 Black Migration from the South and Net U.S...30 Southern...
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Postbellum Race Relations and Rural Landtenure: Migration of Blacks and Whites to and Nebraska, 1870-1890, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Lisa M. Frehill-Rowe. 16 pgs.

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...if white migration exceeded black migration, economic and political factors...population) ought to have increased black migration to the fertile, free land...
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"Overrun with Free Negroes": Emancipation and Wartime Migration in the Upper Midwest, in Civil War History » Read Now
by Leslie A. Schwalm. 30 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community » Read Now
by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo. 218 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This study examines the migrated and community-building efforts of African-American women who moved from the South to the East Bay during World War II. Drawing on fifty oral interviews with former migrants, it details who these women were, how they experienced the migration, and how they used their...
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This study examines the migrated and community-building efforts of African-American women who moved from the South to the East Bay during World War II. Drawing on fifty oral interviews with former migrants, it details who these women were, how they experienced the migration, and how they used their southern cultural traditions to keep their families together and establish new communities in the East Bay.
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Educational Selection in the Migration of Southern Blacks, 1880-1990, in Social Forces » Read Now
by Stewart E. Tolnay. 28 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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A Transplant that did not Take: August Wilson's Views on the Great Migration, in African American Review » Read Now
by Sandra G. Shannon. 8 pgs.

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...take" or the "mistake" of the black migration North. His characters who hail...a recent study on the Great Black Migration, Despite numerous attempts...Were Good and Gone:...
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"Part of the Loaf:" Economic Conditions of Chicago's African-American Chicago's African-American Working Class during the 1920's, in Journal of Social History » Read Now
by Gareth Canaan. 28 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...impact of the Great Migration on the economic conditions in Black Chicago. In looking...decade, Chicagos black population more than doubled. The migration obviously...
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"They're Never Here More Than a Year": Return Migration in the Southern Exodus, 1940-1970, in Journal of Social History » Read Now
by J. Trent Alexander. 18 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South » Read Now
by Carol Stack. 232 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...their childhood. Before 1970 black migration from the North to the rural...dried up, while the southward migration of black Americans swelled to 50,000...demographically by...