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Race, Labor Markets, and Social Disorder in Twentieth-Century America

An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

William J. Collins
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In 1900, approximately 10 percent of African Americans resided in central cities; by 1970, nearly 60 percent did, far higher than the corresponding proportion of whites. This geographic redistribution was central to the twentieth-century African American economic experience, with connections radiating in innumerable directions: to labor markets, housing markets, educational systems, the civil rights movement, and public policy responses to discrimination and poverty. Although migration patterns are not their focus, each essay in this special section is closely connected to the black population's historic redistribution.

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Social Science History , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , summer 2005 , pp. 235 - 239
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2005 

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