The African-American Labor Supply after Reconstruction: Added Worker Effects in Urban Families

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-208
Author(s):  
John E. Murray ◽  
Werner Troesken
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Urban Families ◽  
African American Families ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
Added Worker Effect ◽  
Econometric Evidence ◽  
American Cities ◽  
American Labor

Econometric analysis of a hitherto unused 1896 survey of African-American families in American cities, mostly located in the South, reveals the classic added worker effect: Longer intervals of husbands' unemployment—not counting work missed on account of illness—led to a greater share of wives taking paid employment outside the home. The analysis also shows that household structure and composition, as well as the health of husbands, influenced the decision of wives to enter the labor force. The data and analysis provide some of first econometric evidence about the labor-force decisions of urban-dwelling blacks in late nineteenth-century America.

The Early Life and Career of the "Black Patti": The Odyssey of an African American Singer in the Late Nineteenth Century

2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Graziano
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
The Caribbean

The early career of the African American singer Matilda Sissieretta Jones (1868-1933), known as the "Black Patti," was unique in nineteenth-century America. Reviewers gave high praise to her singing, and she attracted large mixed-race audiences to her concerts across the country. Her fame was such that, during the early 1890s, she appeared as the star of several companies in which she was the only black performer. This article documents her early life in Portsmouth, Virginia, and Providence, Rhode Island; her two tours, in 1888 and 1890, to the Caribbean and South America; and her varied concert appearances in the United States and Europe up to the formation of the Black Patti Troubadours in the fall of 1896.

African American Families in Diversity: Gay Men and Lesbians as Participants in Family Networks

1998 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vickie M. Mays ◽  
Linda M. Cha Tiers ◽  
Susan D. Cochran ◽  
Joanna Mackness
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
African American Families ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
American Families
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