John A Arthur
Biographic Data
| ID | 104905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Arthur |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Arthur |
| SIGNATURE | ARTHUR J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The African Diaspora in the United States and Europe: The Ghanaian Experience
This book systematically documents the experiences of Ghanaian communities in North America as a case study of the new African migration. The rapid increase in the number of Ghanaians lawfully admitted as permanent residents since 1980 offers an opportunity to investigate their immigrant journeys, their membership in the larger society and the expression of their individual and collective social identities. Using original empirical data from the …
Class Formations and Inequality Structures in Contemporary African Migration: Evidence from Ghana
This book examines the influences of social class and inequality structures on migration in Africa using information from Ghana. As the country achieves moderate to significant economic gains driven (in part) by the country’s diaspora communities, the desire to migrate has intensified. Migration is now synonymous with social mobility and self-improvement. It has been found that existing class and status inequalities are analytically inseparable f…
Gender and Transnational Black Immigrant Identities
A s in the past, different groups of Africans from different countries forming the continent are still lumped together into the general category of Black Africans. Though the women immigrants discussed in this book come from countries with similar economic and political circumstances, this form of unitary group identity obfuscates the huge differences and internal diversity commonly found among Black Africans—differences in languages, cultures, n…
African Women Immigrants in the United States: Crossing Transnational Borders
This title depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together th
The African Diaspora in the United States and Europe: The Ghanaian Experience
This book systematically documents the experiences of Ghanaian communities in North America as a case study of the new African migration. The rapid increase in the number of Ghanaians lawfully admitted as permanent residents since 1980 offers an opportunity to investigate their immigrant journeys, their membership in the larger society and the expression of their individual and collective social identities. Using original empirical data from the …
Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History
John Arthur philosophically addresses the problems of racism and the legacy of past racial discrimination in the United States. Offering a thorough analysis of the concepts of race and racism, Arthur also discusses racial equality, poverty and race, reparations and affirmative action, and merit in ways that cut across the usual political lines. A philosopher, former civil-rights plaintiff and professor at an historically black college in the Sout…
Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States
Journal Article Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States Get access Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States. By Arthur John A.. (Westport: Praeger, 2000. x, 200 pp. $55.00, isbn0-275-96759-X.) Andrew F. Clark Andrew F. Clark University of North CarolinaWilmington, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89…
Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States
Arthur documents the role that Africa's best and brightest play in the new migration of population from less developed countries to the United States. He highlights how Africans negotiate and forge relationships among themselves and with the members of the host society. Multiple aspects of the African immigrants' social world, family patterns, labor force participation, and formation of cultural identities are also examined. He lays out the long …
Identity and multicultural politics
(1998). Identity and multicultural politics. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 1, Pluralsim and Liberal Neutrality, pp. 137-146
Racial attitudes and opinions about capital punishment: Preliminary findings
Studies have persistently shown that support for the death penalty is higher among whites than among blacks. According to 1994 data from the General Social Survey, about 83 percent of whites compared to 57 percent of blacks favor the death penalty. This paper focuses on the sources of whites' support for the death penalty. It investigates whether white support for the death penalty is influenced by racial attitudes toward blacks and perceptions a…
Influences of social and economic conditions on crime in East Africa
Following the attainment of political independence after World War II, the nations of Africa embarked upon economic and industrial development programs to improve the living standards of their people. While independence brought political autonomy, economic independence is yet to be realized. The nations are still faced with a myriad of social, political and economic problems. Cumulatively, these problems are bringing about sociocultural dislocati…
Gun Ownership Among Women Living in One Adult Households
Although there is a large body of literature on the determinants of handgun ownership, most of the studies have focused on males and very little is known about the social correlates of gun ownership among American women. In this study, we use the NORC General Social Survey data (1973–1991) to examine the social correlates of gun ownership among a national sample of American women who are the only adult in the household. Descriptive statistics and…
Longitudinal Trends in Violence in the Rural South
Since 1960, the number of violent crimes in America has increased by more than four hundred and fifty percent. Although the bulk of these crimes are being committed in urban areas, the rural areas of the country are not immune from the violence. Previous studies have noted that as a region, the South has one of the highest rates of arrests and incarcerations. Most studies on criminal violence have treated the region as a culturally monolithic ent…
Family Disruption, Violent Victimization and Protest Masculinity
Americans show great concern over the likely harmful effects of father-absent families on children, especially when families are black. Little or no concern is shown over step-families although these are expected to be the predominant family form by the year 2000. Our study finds the emphasis on female-based black households to be misplaced when violent victimization is the harm of interest. Data for 1973, 1976, 1980 and 1984 from national sample…
Development of Penal Policy in British West Africa: Exploring the Colonial Dimension
This paper examines the development of penal policy in British West Africa. The primary focus is to assess the extent to which penal policies in West Africa have been influenced by external geo-political and economic factors. The study concludes that traditional pre-colonial West African society had developed a complex system of social control that used non-incarcerative and community-based sanctions and emphasized reparation over retributive jus…
Interregional Migration of Labor in Ghana, West Africa: Determinants, Consequences and Policy Intervention
This article examines the determinants, consequences and policy intervention measures of the movement of labor within Ghana's administrative regions. The study concludes that the economic inequalities brought about by the uneven distribution of development projects in favor of urban areas causes depressed rural economic conditions, thus spurring rural to urban migration. Migration to the urban places of Ghana is therefore caused by individuals an…
Development and crime in Africa: A test of modernization theory
International Labor Migration Patterns in West Africa
There is strong evidence that labor is highly mobile in many developing countries, especially in Africa. The history of the African continent is rich in accounts of various forms of movement across and within national boundaries—promoted by trade, warfare, pastoralism, slaving, natural disasters, and evangelization. Evidence, of fact and in myth and legend, indicates the occurrence of large-scale migrations in the past. The dispersion of Fulani-s…
Resource Acquisition and Harm
Capitalism is often defended by appeals to natural rights: only in a free market, it is said, are people protected from the illegitimate intrusions of others. Coercion, either to prevent exchanges or to redistribute wealth, violates people's rights. But much of the property people have acquired came not from their own effort or the efforts of those who gave them gifts, but instead was taken from nature. Thus the question I propose to discuss in t…
International Labor Migration Patterns in West Africa
There is strong evidence that labor is highly mobile in many developing countries, especially in Africa. The history of the African continent is rich in accounts of various forms of movement across and within national boundaries—promoted by trade, warfare, pastoralism, slaving, natural disasters, and evangelization. Evidence, of fact and in myth and legend, indicates the occurrence of large-scale migrations in the past. The dispersion of Fulani-s…
Development and crime in Africa: A test of modernization theory
Racial attitudes and opinions about capital punishment: Preliminary findings
Studies have persistently shown that support for the death penalty is higher among whites than among blacks. According to 1994 data from the General Social Survey, about 83 percent of whites compared to 57 percent of blacks favor the death penalty. This paper focuses on the sources of whites' support for the death penalty. It investigates whether white support for the death penalty is influenced by racial attitudes toward blacks and perceptions a…
Interregional Migration of Labor in Ghana, West Africa: Determinants, Consequences and Policy Intervention
This article examines the determinants, consequences and policy intervention measures of the movement of labor within Ghana's administrative regions. The study concludes that the economic inequalities brought about by the uneven distribution of development projects in favor of urban areas causes depressed rural economic conditions, thus spurring rural to urban migration. Migration to the urban places of Ghana is therefore caused by individuals an…
Development of Penal Policy in British West Africa: Exploring the Colonial Dimension
This paper examines the development of penal policy in British West Africa. The primary focus is to assess the extent to which penal policies in West Africa have been influenced by external geo-political and economic factors. The study concludes that traditional pre-colonial West African society had developed a complex system of social control that used non-incarcerative and community-based sanctions and emphasized reparation over retributive jus…
Influences of social and economic conditions on crime in East Africa
Following the attainment of political independence after World War II, the nations of Africa embarked upon economic and industrial development programs to improve the living standards of their people. While independence brought political autonomy, economic independence is yet to be realized. The nations are still faced with a myriad of social, political and economic problems. Cumulatively, these problems are bringing about sociocultural dislocati…
Gun Ownership Among Women Living in One Adult Households
Although there is a large body of literature on the determinants of handgun ownership, most of the studies have focused on males and very little is known about the social correlates of gun ownership among American women. In this study, we use the NORC General Social Survey data (1973–1991) to examine the social correlates of gun ownership among a national sample of American women who are the only adult in the household. Descriptive statistics and…
Family Disruption, Violent Victimization and Protest Masculinity
Americans show great concern over the likely harmful effects of father-absent families on children, especially when families are black. Little or no concern is shown over step-families although these are expected to be the predominant family form by the year 2000. Our study finds the emphasis on female-based black households to be misplaced when violent victimization is the harm of interest. Data for 1973, 1976, 1980 and 1984 from national sample…
Resource Acquisition and Harm
Capitalism is often defended by appeals to natural rights: only in a free market, it is said, are people protected from the illegitimate intrusions of others. Coercion, either to prevent exchanges or to redistribute wealth, violates people's rights. But much of the property people have acquired came not from their own effort or the efforts of those who gave them gifts, but instead was taken from nature. Thus the question I propose to discuss in t…
Development of Penal Policy in British West Africa: Exploring the Colonial Dimension
This paper examines the development of penal policy in British West Africa. The primary focus is to assess the extent to which penal policies in West Africa have been influenced by external geo-political and economic factors. The study concludes that traditional pre-colonial West African society had developed a complex system of social control that used non-incarcerative and community-based sanctions and emphasized reparation over retributive jus…
Interregional Migration of Labor in Ghana, West Africa: Determinants, Consequences and Policy Intervention
This article examines the determinants, consequences and policy intervention measures of the movement of labor within Ghana's administrative regions. The study concludes that the economic inequalities brought about by the uneven distribution of development projects in favor of urban areas causes depressed rural economic conditions, thus spurring rural to urban migration. Migration to the urban places of Ghana is therefore caused by individuals an…
Development and crime in Africa: A test of modernization theory
International Labor Migration Patterns in West Africa
There is strong evidence that labor is highly mobile in many developing countries, especially in Africa. The history of the African continent is rich in accounts of various forms of movement across and within national boundaries—promoted by trade, warfare, pastoralism, slaving, natural disasters, and evangelization. Evidence, of fact and in myth and legend, indicates the occurrence of large-scale migrations in the past. The dispersion of Fulani-s…
Family Disruption, Violent Victimization and Protest Masculinity
Americans show great concern over the likely harmful effects of father-absent families on children, especially when families are black. Little or no concern is shown over step-families although these are expected to be the predominant family form by the year 2000. Our study finds the emphasis on female-based black households to be misplaced when violent victimization is the harm of interest. Data for 1973, 1976, 1980 and 1984 from national sample…
Gun Ownership Among Women Living in One Adult Households
Although there is a large body of literature on the determinants of handgun ownership, most of the studies have focused on males and very little is known about the social correlates of gun ownership among American women. In this study, we use the NORC General Social Survey data (1973–1991) to examine the social correlates of gun ownership among a national sample of American women who are the only adult in the household. Descriptive statistics and…
Longitudinal Trends in Violence in the Rural South
Since 1960, the number of violent crimes in America has increased by more than four hundred and fifty percent. Although the bulk of these crimes are being committed in urban areas, the rural areas of the country are not immune from the violence. Previous studies have noted that as a region, the South has one of the highest rates of arrests and incarcerations. Most studies on criminal violence have treated the region as a culturally monolithic ent…
Influences of social and economic conditions on crime in East Africa
Following the attainment of political independence after World War II, the nations of Africa embarked upon economic and industrial development programs to improve the living standards of their people. While independence brought political autonomy, economic independence is yet to be realized. The nations are still faced with a myriad of social, political and economic problems. Cumulatively, these problems are bringing about sociocultural dislocati…
Identity and multicultural politics
(1998). Identity and multicultural politics. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol. 1, Pluralsim and Liberal Neutrality, pp. 137-146
Racial attitudes and opinions about capital punishment: Preliminary findings
Studies have persistently shown that support for the death penalty is higher among whites than among blacks. According to 1994 data from the General Social Survey, about 83 percent of whites compared to 57 percent of blacks favor the death penalty. This paper focuses on the sources of whites' support for the death penalty. It investigates whether white support for the death penalty is influenced by racial attitudes toward blacks and perceptions a…
Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States
Arthur documents the role that Africa's best and brightest play in the new migration of population from less developed countries to the United States. He highlights how Africans negotiate and forge relationships among themselves and with the members of the host society. Multiple aspects of the African immigrants' social world, family patterns, labor force participation, and formation of cultural identities are also examined. He lays out the long …
Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States
Journal Article Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States Get access Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States. By Arthur John A.. (Westport: Praeger, 2000. x, 200 pp. $55.00, isbn0-275-96759-X.) Andrew F. Clark Andrew F. Clark University of North CarolinaWilmington, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89…
Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History
John Arthur philosophically addresses the problems of racism and the legacy of past racial discrimination in the United States. Offering a thorough analysis of the concepts of race and racism, Arthur also discusses racial equality, poverty and race, reparations and affirmative action, and merit in ways that cut across the usual political lines. A philosopher, former civil-rights plaintiff and professor at an historically black college in the Sout…
The African Diaspora in the United States and Europe: The Ghanaian Experience
This book systematically documents the experiences of Ghanaian communities in North America as a case study of the new African migration. The rapid increase in the number of Ghanaians lawfully admitted as permanent residents since 1980 offers an opportunity to investigate their immigrant journeys, their membership in the larger society and the expression of their individual and collective social identities. Using original empirical data from the …
Gender and Transnational Black Immigrant Identities
A s in the past, different groups of Africans from different countries forming the continent are still lumped together into the general category of Black Africans. Though the women immigrants discussed in this book come from countries with similar economic and political circumstances, this form of unitary group identity obfuscates the huge differences and internal diversity commonly found among Black Africans—differences in languages, cultures, n…
African Women Immigrants in the United States: Crossing Transnational Borders
This title depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together th
Class Formations and Inequality Structures in Contemporary African Migration: Evidence from Ghana
This book examines the influences of social class and inequality structures on migration in Africa using information from Ghana. As the country achieves moderate to significant economic gains driven (in part) by the country’s diaspora communities, the desire to migrate has intensified. Migration is now synonymous with social mobility and self-improvement. It has been found that existing class and status inequalities are analytically inseparable f…
The African Diaspora in the United States and Europe: The Ghanaian Experience
This book systematically documents the experiences of Ghanaian communities in North America as a case study of the new African migration. The rapid increase in the number of Ghanaians lawfully admitted as permanent residents since 1980 offers an opportunity to investigate their immigrant journeys, their membership in the larger society and the expression of their individual and collective social identities. Using original empirical data from the …
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works)