Racial Desegregation and Black Chicago Business:

How do political issues arise, and come to affect political party politics? We develop a theory and model of issue evolution, illustrating both by examining the dynamic evolution of the issue of racial desegregation. Our modeling concerns two central problems: (1) the structure of the evolution—a pattern of dynamic causality between the early policy cues from professional politicians, in Congress in the case at hand, and later mass response, and (2) the sequence of changes in elite behavior, changes in mass perceptions of party issue stances, changes in mass affect toward the parties, and changes in party identifications among citizens. We suggest that the causal process developed for the racial case is quite general for other times, other nations, and other issues. The theory of issue evolution is developed as a general statement of the organic connection between elite and mass behavior, a working model of the dynamics of American politics across time and issues.

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Racial Desegregation in Education in West Virginia

The Journal of Negro Education ◽

10.2307/2293445 ◽

1956 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 352

Author(s):

Lawrence V. Jordan

Keyword(s):

West Virginia ◽

Racial Desegregation

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Next Steps in Racial Desegregation in Education in the South

The Journal of Negro Education ◽

10.2307/2293237 ◽

1954 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 384

Author(s):

George S. Mitchell

Keyword(s):

The South ◽

Racial Desegregation

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“What’s Happened to the People?” Gentrification and Racial Segregation in Brooklyn

Journal of African American Studies ◽

10.1007/s12111-020-09499-y ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 549-572

Author(s):

Themis Chronopoulos

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

African American ◽

African Americans ◽

Racial Segregation ◽

Black Neighborhoods ◽

The People ◽

The Usa ◽

Racial Desegregation ◽

The Relationship

Abstract This article explores the relationship between gentrification and racial segregation in Brooklyn, New York with an emphasis on Black Brooklyn. With more than 2.6 million residents, if Brooklyn was a city, it would be the fourth largest in the USA. Brooklyn is the home of approximately 788,000 Blacks with almost 692,000 of them living in an area that historian Harold X. Connolly has called Black Brooklyn. In recent decades, large portions of Brooklyn, including parts of Black Brooklyn have been gentrifying with sizable numbers of whites moving to traditionally Black neighborhoods. One would anticipate racial segregation to be declining in Brooklyn and especially in the areas that are gentrifying. However, this expectation of racial desegregation appears to be false. While there are declines in indices of racial segregation, these declines are frequently marginal, especially when the increase in the number of whites in Black neighborhoods is taken into consideration. At the same time, gentrification has contributed to the displacement or replacement of thousands of long-term African American residents from their homes. This persistence of racial segregation in a time of gentrification raises many questions about the two processes and the effects that they have on African Americans.

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Loving Gorillas: Segregation Literature, Animality, and Black Liberation

American Literature ◽

10.1215/00029831-8056609 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 92 (1) ◽

pp. 123-149

Author(s):

Eve Dunbar

Keyword(s):

Black People ◽

Western Culture ◽

Black Liberation ◽

Nonhuman Animals ◽

Racial Desegregation ◽

Animal Care ◽

Black Boy

Abstract Deeply rooted racial logics of Western culture have long used animal metaphors and affiliations as a method for negatively coding the species permeability between black people and nonhuman animals. Responsively, many black cultural producers have sought to acquire access to the category of the human by crafting narratives that shuttle black being away from the animal. Rejecting both negative affiliations and shifting away from the animal, this article explores the movement toward the animal in black segregation-era literature. I argue that animals and animal care in Richard Wright’s Black Boy and primate liberation in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha provide new modes of imagining black humanism on the cusp of US racial desegregation.

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