The Great Sharecropper Success Story.

Whitman, David

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ERIC Number: EJ432075

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1991

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The Great Sharecropper Success Story.

Whitman, David

Public Interest, n104 p3-19 Sum 1991

Critiques Nicholas Lemann's recent book on the 1940-70 Black migration from the South to the urban North, particularly the thesis that the modern-day Black urban underclass is composed mainly of ex-sharecroppers and their descendants. Traces the theory's political history and discusses evidence that many Black migrants achieved relative success. (CJS)

Descriptors: Blacks, Migration Patterns, Misconceptions, Poverty, Press Opinion, Rural to Urban Migration, Sharecroppers, Slums, Social Theories, Structural Unemployment, Unemployment, Urban Population

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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