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Title: Educational Selection in the Migration of Southern Blacks, 1880-1990

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 1998

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Abstract: The relationship between migration experience and family patterns among residents of the North and West [of the United States] is examined for three time periods--1940, 1970, and 1990. In general, an inverse association is observed between duration of residence in the North or West and family stability among African Americans. Although selective return migration to the South contributes to this association, it can account for only a minor part of the variation in family patterns by migration history. It is concluded that there is no evidence to support previous assumptions that southern migrants carried a dysfunctional family culture with them to the North and West, and thereby destabilized the nonsouthern African American family.

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Authors: Tolnay, Stewart E.

Periodical (Full): Social Forces

Issue: 2

Volume: 77

Pages: 487-514

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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