Between Depression and Prosperity? Changes in the Community Context of Historical African American Migration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2577679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Townsand Price‐spratlen (0000-0003-2611-5562, The Ohio State University, corresponding author), Townsand Price-Spratlen |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 515 |
| Publication date | 1998-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3005537 |
| OpenAlex | W4243153910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
This article analyzes changes in the significance of African American ethnogenesis on the contrasting flows of young migrants and total migrants to urban areas throughout the United States. I test a destination migration model during the two decades 1930–40 and 1950–60. Because of the temporal and spatial dependency among the urban counties, I use seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) to estimate simultaneously the coefficients across the two periods. By focusing on the characteristics of urban destinations, the article goes beyond most previous work that considers only the characteristics of places of origin. By examining two distinct time periods, various period effects are also appropriately considered. The results support the significance of ethnogenesis, or the establishment of "social networks and communication patterns as the bases of ... institutional and communal life" (Taylor 1979:1405), in shaping the historical migration of African Americans. However, due in part to this very ethnogenic activity, over time the relative risks of mobility for prospective migrants were gradually reduced as the migration itself became a social movement. Many of the factors that previously conditioned the migration declined in their significance, leading to reduced dynamism of the migration process
Context (archaeology) · Demographic economics · Destinations · Development economics · Dynamism · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Ethnogenesis · Geography · Human migration · Immigration · Internal migration · Political science · Population · Prosperity · Sociology · Urbanization · Demography · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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Livin’ for the city
Race, Regional Origin, and Residence in Northern Cities at the Beginning of the Great Migration
Return Migrations of African-Americans to the South
Occupational Status of Immigrants and African Americans at the Beginning and End of the Great Migration
The African American 'Great Migration' and Beyond
From Old South to New South? Black-White Residential Segregation in Micropolitan Areas
| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2020 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |