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Title: Before They Were Diamonds: The Intergenerational Migration of Kentucky's Coal Camp Blacks
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: Mass migration always conditions subjectivities. Whether a result of religious persecution, famine, labor shortage, or the prospect of greater prosperity, every mass movement of a people can be traced through the particular conditions under which the migrant self is formed and transformed. The shared struggles and strivings, and the peeks and valleys of the myriad of hopes, disappointments, tragedies, and joys that accompany the migration experience shape a people. The black experience with migration in the U.S. has been framed by what is commonly referred to as “The African American Great Migration”: a period between 1910 and 1970 during which approximately six million blacks migrated from the rural South to the urban centers of the Midwest, the Northeast, and, much later, out West (Grossman, 1991; Harrison, 2012; Lemann, 2011; Marks, 1989; Stewart E. Tolnay, 2003; Wilkerson, 2010). It is true that this . . .
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Authors: Leigh Brown, Karida
Institution: Brown University
Department: Sociology
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Degree: PhD
Publisher Location: Providence, Rhode Island
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other
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