scholarly journals Race and Home Ownership from the End of the Civil War to the Present

2011 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J Collins ◽  
Robert A Margo
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Permanent Income ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Racial Gap ◽  
Black Households

We present new estimates of home ownership for black and white households from 1870 to 2007. Black ownership increased by 46 percentage points, whereas white ownership increased by 20 points. Remarkably, 25 of the 26 point narrowing occurred between 1870 and 1910. Part of this early convergence is accounted for by falling white ownership due to movement out of agriculture, but most is accounted for by post-emancipation gains among blacks. After 1910, white and black households increased ownership, but the racial gap barely changed. We discuss the influence of residential segregation, public policy, and permanent income on the ownership gap.

Women, the Civil War, and Reconstruction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Native American Women ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Us ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
Us Civil War

The rapid transformations brought on by the US Civil War and its aftermath touched women’s lives in contradictory ways. The disruption caused by war and the destruction of slavery opened up space, and at times created the necessity, for radically new roles for women that challenged antebellum gender norms and racial and class hierarchies. This essay examines the wartime and postwar experiences primarily of black and white but also Native American women. In this period, many women faced new circumstances that inspired them to confront power in novel ways—by, for instance, fleeing slavery, petitioning governors, organizing bread riots, participating in political parades, or protesting segregation. The chapter also explores political violence in the postwar period that affected women differently across class, race, and region and that eventually helped to shut down the radical potential of the era.

Blue and Gray in Black and White: Newspapers in the Civil War

2001 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 458
Author(s):  
Ethan S. Rafuse ◽  
Brayton Harris
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Black And White

Peter Sekaer: Slum Conditions in America

Prospects ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 391-415
Author(s):  
Michael G. Sundell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Farm Security Administration ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
The West ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Federal Bureaucracy ◽  
Resettlement Administration ◽  
The New Deal

To most people, federally-sponsored photography during the New Deal means the splendid file of images created by the Resettlement Administration–later the Farm Security Administration of the Department of Agriculture. Understandable as it is, this equation simplifies truth. By the time of Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration in March 1933, the use of photography was commonplace in the federal bureaucracy, reflecting practices that had been developing for more than half a century. Since the Civil War, federal officials had profited from the precision of photography and from its deceptive appearance of objectivity to preserve information and sometimes to influence opinion. A few government projects had resulted in compelling educational documentations that were also recognized as compelling art. Most notably, photographers like John Hillers, William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'sullivan, and Carleton Watkins, tested by the opportunity to expand the possibilities of their medium while addressing a great national theme, had compiled in their records of the exploration of the West documentations that helped to change public policy by providing images with the power to crystallize the country's sense of its identity and potential growth.

Peter Sekaer: Slum Conditions in America

Prospects ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 391-415
Author(s):  
Michael G. Sundell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Farm Security Administration ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
The West ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Federal Bureaucracy ◽  
Resettlement Administration ◽  
The New Deal

To most people, federally-sponsored photography during the New Deal means the splendid file of images created by the Resettlement Administration–later the Farm Security Administration of the Department of Agriculture. Understandable as it is, this equation simplifies truth. By the time of Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration in March 1933, the use of photography was commonplace in the federal bureaucracy, reflecting practices that had been developing for more than half a century. Since the Civil War, federal officials had profited from the precision of photography and from its deceptive appearance of objectivity to preserve information and sometimes to influence opinion. A few government projects had resulted in compelling educational documentations that were also recognized as compelling art. Most notably, photographers like John Hillers, William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'sullivan, and Carleton Watkins, tested by the opportunity to expand the possibilities of their medium while addressing a great national theme, had compiled in their records of the exploration of the West documentations that helped to change public policy by providing images with the power to crystallize the country's sense of its identity and potential growth.

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