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Title: The Influence of Geography on the Lives of African American Residents of Arlington County

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Most scholarship on racial segregation in U.S. cities retraces the Great Migration from the rural South to the urbanizing, industrializing North. It identifies residential, occupational, and entrepreneurial patterns typical of the South, and very different residential, occupational, and entrepreneurial patterns of the North. Arlington County, Virginia, adjacent to the federal government and to the large, prosperous African American community in Washington, D.C., provides a unique opportunity to study processes that transcended this dichotomy. Combining both qualitative and quantitative research methods and mixed data sources, this program of research discovered that life for African Americans in Arlington, Virginia, during segregation was largely determined by the County's unique context.

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Authors: Perry, Nancy

Institution: George Mason University

Department: Department of Earth Systems and Geoinformation Sciences

Advisor: Nigel M. Waters

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Publisher Location: Washington

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Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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