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Title: The New Promised Land: Black-White Wage Convergence in the American South, 1940-2000

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: For decades, economists and other social scientists have been studying racial inequality in the American labor market. While some degree of inequality between blacks and whites can be found in all parts of the country, the widest disparities have historically been found in the South. Extreme southern inequality, fed by institutionalized patterns of discrimination in the job market, among other factors, led millions of southern blacks to migrate to other parts of the country between 1920 and 1965. For African Americans of this era, the North represented a “Promised Land,” a place devoid of oppressive Jim Crow laws and endowed with unprecedented opportunities for economic advancement.

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Authors: Vigdor, Jacob L.

Periodical (Full): Insights on Southern Poverty: The Newsletter of the UK Center for Poverty Research

Issue: 3

Volume: 2

Pages: 1-10

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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