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Blacks in the United States: A geographic perspective
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The article was published on 1975-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 28 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Perspective (graphical).read more
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White socio-spatial epistemology
Owen J. Dwyer,John Paul Jones +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a socio-spatial epistemology of whiteness is proposed, based on the work of critical theorists in the humanities and social sciences concerned with masculinist and post-colonial epistemologies.
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Why Study the U.S. South? The Nexus of Race and Place in Investigating Black Student Achievement
Jerome E. Morris,Carla R. Monroe +1 more
TL;DR: The authors highlighted the significance of the U.S. South in scholarly discussions regarding the academic achievement gap involving Black students and highlighted the saliency of the South as a critical and neglected site for the investigation of such issues.
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Secret and sacred: Contextualizing the artifacts of African-American magic and religion
TL;DR: The authors proposed a diachronic model for understanding the changing relationship between magic and religion in African-American daily life, consisting of three stages of cultural change, Formative, Persisting, and Transformative.
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Exposure, susceptibility, and breast cancer risk: a hypothesis regarding exogenous carcinogens, breast tissue development, and social gradients, including black/white differences, in breast cancer incidence.
TL;DR: Evidence is summarized to propose that two socially-conditioned factors determine a society's breast cancer incidence and its social gradients in risk: 1) the extent of exposure to exogenous carcinogens, and 2) breast tissue susceptibility to these exposures.
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Selling the American dream myth to black southerners: The Chicago defender and the great migration of 1915–1919
TL;DR: The authors showed that the Chicago Defender, a black, nationally distributed newspaper, sought to persuade discontented southern blacks to migrate to the North by waging a migration campaign that utilized the recurring themes found in the American-Dream Myth.