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Livin' for the city: African American ethnogenesis and depression era migration
| Author: |
Price-Spratlen, Townsand |
| Date: |
1999 |
| Periodical: |
Demography |
| Abstract: |
Urban ethnogenesis is a process by which a group creates and maintains social networks and communication patterns as the basis for institutional and communal life in urban areas. Ethnogenesis is a foundation upon which most historical, urbanward migrations have been built, including the "Great Migration" of African Americans during the first half of this century. Although a period of decreased migration, the Depression was marked by sizeable movement in which nearly 10% of the total African American population moved interregionally. Ethnogenic measures such as NAACP activism, the number of community newspapers directed at African Americans, and the longevity of a chapter of the National Urban League significantly increased migration flows. |
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