African American Men in the American West, 1528-1990

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9770337
AutoresQuintard Taylor (University of Washington, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen569
Número1
Páginas102-119
Fecha de publicación2000-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716200569001008
OpenAlexW4236397117
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas27

The first black men to enter the West were Spanish- speaking settlers from central Mexico. They were followed by free English-speaking fur traders and by slaves primarily in Texas. Some males arrived in California during the 1850s, initiating a voluntary migration of farmers, miners, soldiers, and cowboys through the nineteenth century. In the early twentieth century, black men settled mainly in the cities and worked in unskilled nonunion occupations. By World War II, far more migrants had arrived in response to wartime work opportunities. War work allowed both newcomers and old residents access to skilled unionized employment for the first time. Discrimination continued, however, prompting a civil rights movement in the West in the 1960s that paralleled activities in the South. That movement opened new opportunities for the skilled and educated. However, postwar deindustrialization moved many unskilled African American men to the margins of the Western urban economy

American west · Ancient history · Archaeology · Deindustrialization · Economic history · Ethnology · First world war · Geography · Political science · Spanish Civil War · Work (physics · World War II · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society