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RISING BLACK ELITE: A MODEL AND AN ASSESSMENT OF CHANGE WITHIN THE BLACK MALE POPULATION FROM 1960 TO 1970

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Date Issued:
1978
Summary:
The paper integrates the internal colonial model with the dual labor market perspective. Using data from the 1960 and 1970 Censuses, it assesses the impact of Civil Rights legislation on the education, income, and occupation distributions of black males. The findings are that the increase in blacks with college degrees has resulted in black males moving at a disproportionately high rate into upper level occupations such as professional, technical, management, and administrative occupations. This may be contributing to the growing inequality of income among blacks that has been noted in the literature. It also supports the position that the benefits from Civil Rights legislation will be greatest for blacks who were already relatively well off.
Title: THE RISING BLACK ELITE: A MODEL AND AN ASSESSMENT OF CHANGE WITHIN THE BLACK MALE POPULATION FROM 1960 TO 1970.
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Name(s): WISWELL, CANDACE HINSON.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Villemez, Wayne J., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Sociology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1978
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 72 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The paper integrates the internal colonial model with the dual labor market perspective. Using data from the 1960 and 1970 Censuses, it assesses the impact of Civil Rights legislation on the education, income, and occupation distributions of black males. The findings are that the increase in blacks with college degrees has resulted in black males moving at a disproportionately high rate into upper level occupations such as professional, technical, management, and administrative occupations. This may be contributing to the growing inequality of income among blacks that has been noted in the literature. It also supports the position that the benefits from Civil Rights legislation will be greatest for blacks who were already relatively well off.
Identifier: 13945 (digitool), FADT13945 (IID), fau:10768 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1978.
Subject(s): Afro-American men--Social conditions
Afro-American men--Economic conditions
African American men--Social conditions
African American men--Economic conditions
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