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ISBN: 1400882974 9781400882977 0691150877 9780691150871 0691202494 Year: 2016 Publisher: Princeton University Press
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From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space in receiving areas.Traditionally, the Great Black Migration has been lauded as a path to general black economic progress. Leah Boustan challenges this view, arguing instead that the migration produced winners and losers within the black community. Boustan shows that migrants themselves gained tremendously, more than doubling their earnings by moving North. But these new arrivals competed with existing black workers, limiting black-white wage convergence in Northern labor markets and slowing black economic growth. Furthermore, many white households responded to the black migration by relocating to the suburbs. White flight was motivated not only by neighborhood racial change but also by the desire on the part of white residents to avoid participating in the local public services and fiscal obligations of increasingly diverse cities.Employing historical census data and state-of-the-art econometric methods, Competition in the Promised Land revises our understanding of the Great Black Migration and its role in the transformation of American society.
African Americans --- Migration, Internal --- Rural-urban migration --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Country-city migration --- Migration, Rural-urban --- Rural exodus --- Rural-urban relations --- Urbanization --- Migrations --- History --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- E-books --- Black people --- HISTORY / Social History. --- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. --- American society. --- Civil War. --- Great Black Migration. --- Latin America. --- World War I. --- birth cohorts. --- black arrivals. --- black community. --- black economic growth. --- black economy. --- black in-migration. --- black migrants. --- black migration. --- black residents. --- black southerner mobility. --- black workers. --- earnings convergence. --- earnings growth. --- earnings penalty. --- economic advancement. --- employment. --- family backgrounds. --- fiscal changes. --- housing prices. --- industrial cities. --- industrial jobs. --- labor market competition. --- labor markets. --- market discrimination. --- new migration wave. --- northern employers. --- northern factories. --- northern housing markets. --- northern labor. --- political changes. --- pre-market discrimination. --- property tax rates. --- public goods. --- southern blacks. --- suburban units. --- suburbanization. --- wage losses. --- white departures. --- white flight. --- white relocation. --- white-collar workers. --- young migrants.
ISBN: 0520939867 1597346969 9780520939868 1417525525 9781417525522 9780520238411 0520238419 9781597346962 Year: 2003 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press
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In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass-embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South-is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities-and limits-quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.
African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Los Anheles (Calif.) --- Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula (Calif.) --- Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula (Calif.) --- Tʻien-shih-chih-chʻeng (Calif.) --- Tianshizhicheng (Calif.) --- Los Andzsheles (Calif.) --- Lo-shan-chi (Calif.) --- Loshanji (Calif.) --- Angeles (Calif.) --- Ciudad de Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Pueblo de Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Pueblo Los Angeles (Calif.) --- City of Los Angeles (Calif.) --- LA (Calif.) --- L.A. (Calif.) --- City of Angels (Calif.) --- لوس أنجلوس (Calif.) --- Lūs Anjilūs (Calif.) --- Los Anceles (Calif.) --- Горад Лос-Анджэлес (Calif.) --- Horad Los-Andz︠h︡ėles (Calif.) --- Лос-Анджэлес (Calif.) --- Los-Andz︠h︡ėles (Calif.) --- Лос Анджелис (Calif.) --- Los Andzhelis (Calif.) --- Λος Αντζελες (Calif.) --- Los Antzeles (Calif.) --- Los-Anĝeleso (Calif.) --- 로스앤젤레스 (Calif.) --- Losŭ Aenjellesŭ (Calif.) --- לוס אנג'לס (Calif.) --- Angelopolis (Calif.) --- Losandželosa (Calif.) --- Los Andželas (Calif.) --- Лос Анџелес (Calif.) --- Los Andželes (Calif.) --- ロサンゼルス (Calif.) --- Rosanzerusu (Calif.) --- ロサンゼルス市 (Calif.) --- Rosanzerusu-shi (Calif.) --- Los Anjeles (Calif.) --- Лос Андьелес (Calif.) --- Los Andʹeles (Calif.) --- Los Anxheles (Calif.) --- Лос Анђелес (Calif.) --- Our Lady Queen of the Angels (Calif.) --- Los Angeles City (Calif.) --- La La Land (Calif.) --- Race relations. --- Black people --- 1960s. --- african americans. --- black americans. --- black experience. --- black migrants. --- california. --- critical history. --- deindustrialization. --- discussion books. --- great depression. --- historical. --- los angeles. --- modern history. --- modern los angeles. --- nonfiction. --- postwar economy. --- race riots. --- racial diversity. --- racial issues. --- regional differences. --- regional history. --- social inequality. --- urban america. --- urban crisis. --- urban landscape. --- urban studies. --- westward movement.
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