Robert Weaver, <i>The Negro Ghetto</i>

Brewer, W. M.

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“…40 Admittedly, the white ethnocracy was not overturned, nor was Jim Crow challenged or significantly undermined, but black leaders used their political influence to improve conditions for local African Americans in the present and to provide the base from which a larger black middle class could emerge in the future. A group of local African Americans writing in 1940 noted how, since the establishment of the city manager form of government in Austin in the late 1920s, 'Negro leaders have been able to overcome the smallness that formerly existed at the beginning of this regime.…”

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Confronting Jim Crow in the ‘Lone Star’ capital: the contrasting strategies of African-American and ethnic-Mexican political leaders in Austin, Texas, 1910–1930

McDonald

2007

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Focusing upon the interaction between ethnic political elites in Austin, Texas, during the early twentieth century, this study examines (1) the impact of migration upon the dominant white elite's attitudes towards and dealings with the city's subordinate nonwhite ethnies, and (2) the agendas adopted by local African-American and ethnic-Mexican leaders. The article explains why in their efforts to improve conditions for their respective ethnic communities, the African-American and ethnic-Mexican leaderships pursued very different strategies from each other -the former concentrating upon the attainment of more universalist goals, the latter on more multiculturalist ones -and evaluates the effectiveness of these contrasting policies.Focusing upon inter-ethnic politics in an early-twentieth-century American city, this article examines the relationships between migration, ethnic pluralism and democracy. After World War I and the quota acts of the 1920s effected a sudden decline in European immigration, ethnic population mobility in the United States came to be dominated by three phenomena : Mexican immigration, black emigration from the South and the increasing urbanization of both African Americans and ethnic Mexicans. 1 These migrations had a major impact on inter-ethnic politics in twentieth-century America, which were characterized by two themes:(1) the struggle for civil equality and a colour-blind interpretation of the

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Confronting Jim Crow in the ‘Lone Star’ capital: the contrasting strategies of African-American and ethnic-Mexican political leaders in Austin, Texas, 1910–1930

McDonald

2007

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Telschow¹

1950

Deutsche Zeitschrift f. Nervenheilkunde

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Robert Weaver, The Negro Ghetto

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Confronting Jim Crow in the ‘Lone Star’ capital: the contrasting strategies of African-American and ethnic-Mexican political leaders in Austin, Texas, 1910–1930

Confronting Jim Crow in the ‘Lone Star’ capital: the contrasting strategies of African-American and ethnic-Mexican political leaders in Austin, Texas, 1910–1930

�ber die Beziehung zwischen Durchmesser und Segmentl�nge markhaltiger Nervenfasern

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