Southern Diaspora How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America

Name: Southern Diaspora How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
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ISBN: 9780807856512

ISBN-10: 0807856517

ISBN-13: 9780807856512

Edition: 2005

Authors: James N. Gregory

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Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America by "southernizing" communities and transforming important cultural and political institutions. Challenging the image of the migrants as helpless and poor, Gregory shows how both black and white southerners used their new surroundings to become agents of change. Combining personal stories with cultural, political, and demographic analysis, he argues that the migrants helped create both the…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English

James N. Gregory is professor of history at the University of Washington and director of the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. He is author of the award-winning American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California.