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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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McFeely as mentioned in this paper presents a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations, concluding that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s.Abstract:
Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme Court ordered schools be desegregated, helped counter arguments that the ruling would destoy a centuries-old way of life. The commemorative edition includes a special afterword by William S. McFeely, former Woodward student and winner of both the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and 1992 Lincoln Prize. As William McFeely describes in the new afterword, 'the slim volume's social consequence far outstripped its importance to academia. The book became part of a revolution...The Civil Rights Movement had changed Woodward's South and his slim, quietly insistent book...had contributed to that change.'read more
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The Unpublished Diaries of Charles Kikuchi: “Black and Yellow” through the Eyes of a Progressive Nisei Intellectual
TL;DR: In his diary, a young Japanese American named Charles Kikuchi as mentioned in this paper describes an afternoon's passing conversation in his diary with a Negro workman who was digging postholes for the fence which is going around the place, and is disappointed to discover Nisei allegiance to the United States.
Demography as Opportunity
Abstract: Compared with four-year colleges, community colleges serve a vastly disproportionate number of undergraduate students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups and lower-income backgrounds. Yet the sector remains under-resourced— unable to compete against politically connected state four-year systems and flagship campuses for limited public funds. Worse yet, community colleges have been unfairly stigmatized as they struggle to redress the accumulated disadvantage experienced by much of their student body. What is an under-resourced and stigmatized higher education sector to do? One idea is to reshape words and deeds in ways intended to leverage the benefits of the nation’s changing demographics and dispel deficit orientations toward populations community colleges enroll. Demography as opportunity is a simple idea grounded in a commitment to affirm the worth of the students who attend community colleges by being responsive to their life circumstances. As the demography of the nation changes—the United States is predicted to be majority minority by 2045—human capital investment in students from racial and ethnic groups, many of whom are first-generation college goers and low-income, is critical to the nation’s vitality. Demography as opportunity marries the racial and ethnic shifts underway in the country and in higher education with equity perspectives on historically disenfranchised populations. It is a constellation of policy and practice that abides by implementation principles common to well-executed change efforts. It attends to both people and place and aspires to strengthen communities and the nation by investing in the increasingly diverse population of college goers. Community colleges are the ideal venue for demography as opportunity not only because of who they serve but also because of what they do.
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Access Are Associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences
TL;DR: The results from this study suggest thatACEs may be an underrecognized barrier to health care for adults and investing in strategies to mitigate ACEs may help improve health care access among adults.
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Using SOURCES to Examine the Nadir of Race Relations (1890-1920).
Carol LaVallee,Scott M. Waring +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline a method for using a variety of primary sources from the Library of Congress to focus on the question: "To what extent did the end of slavery improve the lives of African Americans in the South?"
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Conflict between self and otherness in selected writings of Nadine Gordimer
Abstract: IV TABLE OF CONTENTS . . VI CHAPTER ONE COMING TO GRIPS WITH BLACK-'¥HITE CONFLICTS 1: