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The black legion rides
Title
The black legion rides.
Creator
Morris, George
Date Issued
1936
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671102
Subject Headings
United States --Race relations.
Format
Document (PDF)
Is Japan the champion of the colored races? The Negro's stake in democracy
Title
Is Japan the champion of the colored races? The Negro's stake in democracy.
Creator
Communist Party of the United States of America
Date Issued
1938
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/368641
Subject Headings
Race relations., Blacks., Japan --Politics and government --1926-1945.
Format
Document (PDF)
Dialogues About Race Relations: What Kind of Talk is Needed to Overcome Racial Conflict?
Title
Dialogues About Race Relations: What Kind of Talk is Needed to Overcome Racial Conflict?.
Creator
Ten Eyck, Roxanne H., Mulvaney, Becky, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Abstract/Description
The Trayvon Martin shooting of 2013 and the Michael Brown shooting of 2014 by a White security guard and White police officer sequentially led to the Black Lives Matter movement which has grown internationally to 40 chapters. Police agencies have responded with active community outreach programs to proactively reduce conflict. The question arises whether a language of peace such as Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication would be an effective tool to be used in instances of conflict similar to...
Show moreThe Trayvon Martin shooting of 2013 and the Michael Brown shooting of 2014 by a White security guard and White police officer sequentially led to the Black Lives Matter movement which has grown internationally to 40 chapters. Police agencies have responded with active community outreach programs to proactively reduce conflict. The question arises whether a language of peace such as Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication would be an effective tool to be used in instances of conflict similar to the carnage involving Black men and White police officers between 2013-2017. Local members of the Black community, Black Lives Matter, and law enforcement were interviewed asking the efficacy of Rosenberg’s NVC and deliberative dialogue as well. The study showed that since Blacks and Whites view racism differently, a more comprehensive approach is needed to address the challenges of racism and race relations. This thesis describes the possible use of a few models structured to discuss the racial conflict between all parties affected by racism.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013269
Subject Headings
Race relations, Racism, Black lives matter movement, Dialogue
Format
Document (PDF)
Prison privatization in the United States: a new strategy for racial control
Title
Prison privatization in the United States: a new strategy for racial control.
Creator
Mercadal-Sabbagh, Gertrudis, Araghi, Farshad A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
Abstract/Description
There has been a stunning build-up of prisons and a growing trend in prison privatization in the last 30 years, including the rise of maximum security units. The goal of my dissertation is to understand the ideological, historic, political, and economic processes behind the changes in the criminal justice system of the United States. I analyze this problem from multiple angles—labor and policy history, discourse and public opinion, and race in America. The aim of this analysis is to uncover...
Show moreThere has been a stunning build-up of prisons and a growing trend in prison privatization in the last 30 years, including the rise of maximum security units. The goal of my dissertation is to understand the ideological, historic, political, and economic processes behind the changes in the criminal justice system of the United States. I analyze this problem from multiple angles—labor and policy history, discourse and public opinion, and race in America. The aim of this analysis is to uncover the reasons why crime legislation became progressively more punitive, reaction to African Americans gains in post-Civil Rights more hostile, and the manifold ways in which these phenomena drive the expansion of the prison system and its increasing privatization. In the process of this expansion, a racial caste system which oppresses young African Americans and people of color has become recast and entrenched. Specifically, I offer the notion that in the last three decades, punitive crime legislation focused on African Americans and served to deal with labor needs and racial conflict with harsher penal legislation; in doing so, it depoliticized race, institutionalized racial practices, and served the interests of private prison businesses in new ways oppressive ways. Using interdisciplinary methods which weave together qualitative and quantitative analysis, I find that punitive crime policies in the last thirty years used the concept of crime as political currency by government officials in order to appear tough on crime, and by business representatives interested in exploiting the prison industry. The conflation of business and political interests, and the recasting of crime as a race problem, served to taint public institutions and media dissemination with racist imperatives which stereotyped poor African Americans. The end result is a constant re-positioning of young black males as fodder for economic exploitation. The dissertation also addresses the high cost of imprisonment and the multiple social problems brought from shifting inmates from wards of the State to profit-making opportunities in the hands of private entrepreneurs. The result is high numbers of recidivism, and a growing underclass of people who will always be unemployed or underemployed and return to low income communities that suffer from the endless cycle of poverty and imprisonment.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004218, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004218
Subject Headings
Corrections -- Contracting out, Prison administration, Prisons and race relations, Privatization
Format
Document (PDF)
GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSIVENESS AND RIOT CONDUCIVENESS: THE IMPACT OF ASPECTS OF THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE ON URBAN RIOTS
Title
GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSIVENESS AND RIOT CONDUCIVENESS: THE IMPACT OF ASPECTS OF THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE ON URBAN RIOTS.
Creator
WEINBERGER, ELEANOR., Florida Atlantic University, Giles, Michael W., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
Abstract/Description
This thesis analyzes the legal institutional structure of the urban community, as symbolized by the police, to determine if differences in the capacity to function effectively was a significant factor in the urban racial violence of the mid-1960's. Performance capacity was operationalized by the following objective measures for pre-riot "normal" times: quality of manpower potential, municipal governmental structure, confrontation potential, and potential resources of the community. Additional...
Show moreThis thesis analyzes the legal institutional structure of the urban community, as symbolized by the police, to determine if differences in the capacity to function effectively was a significant factor in the urban racial violence of the mid-1960's. Performance capacity was operationalized by the following objective measures for pre-riot "normal" times: quality of manpower potential, municipal governmental structure, confrontation potential, and potential resources of the community. Additional independent variables were the city's total population and socio-economic measures of absolute and relative deprivation. Although the results were not conclusive, only a community's confrontation potential, potential resources , and total population size were found to significantly contribute to an explanation of a community's riot potential.
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Date Issued
1977
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13900
Subject Headings
Riot control, Riots, United States--Race relations
Format
Document (PDF)
African American protest in Jacksonville, Florida, 1895-1920
Title
African American protest in Jacksonville, Florida, 1895-1920.
Creator
Cassanello, Robert., Florida Atlantic University, Goings, Kenneth W.
Abstract/Description
American historians have traditionally seen the period from 1915 to 1920 as one of heightened interracial tensions. Several historians have cited the emergence of the "New Negro" or the communist scare as the main reason for the heightened tensions. While those reasons may have contributed somewhat to the tension, the real source of the tension lies elsewhere. My study of Jacksonville has provided different reasons for the tension. Tension increased because of working-class African American...
Show moreAmerican historians have traditionally seen the period from 1915 to 1920 as one of heightened interracial tensions. Several historians have cited the emergence of the "New Negro" or the communist scare as the main reason for the heightened tensions. While those reasons may have contributed somewhat to the tension, the real source of the tension lies elsewhere. My study of Jacksonville has provided different reasons for the tension. Tension increased because of working-class African American resistance in Jacksonville, the impact of the Great Migration on Jacksonville, and the change in white attitudes concerning race.
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Date Issued
1995
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15170
Subject Headings
Jacksonville (Fla.)--Race relations, African Americans--Florida--Jacksonville, Civil rights movements--Florida--Jacksonville
Format
Document (PDF)
impact of racial diversity on state welfare policies
Title
The impact of racial diversity on state welfare policies.
Creator
Walker, Lindsay Ona., Florida Atlantic University, Stetson, Dorothy M.
Abstract/Description
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act devolved much of the authority for welfare policymaking to the state governments. The goal was to promote variation in welfare policies in order to find the most effective way to keep low-income families in the work force and deter teenage pregnancy and family breakup. Without federal entitlement and federal oversight, black populations may be subject to more restrictive policies and may become the victims of welfare...
Show moreThe 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act devolved much of the authority for welfare policymaking to the state governments. The goal was to promote variation in welfare policies in order to find the most effective way to keep low-income families in the work force and deter teenage pregnancy and family breakup. Without federal entitlement and federal oversight, black populations may be subject to more restrictive policies and may become the victims of welfare racism. This study examines variation in the generosity of state welfare policies and assesses the role of racism in welfare policy outcomes. This is done using a regression analysis that tests the relationship between the generosity of state welfare policies and state social, political and cultural characteristics. The analysis shows that one area of policy---personal requirements---subjects blacks to more restrictive rules but the overall generosity of welfare programs is most significantly affected by the professionalism of state bureaucrats.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12934
Subject Headings
Racism, Public welfare--United States--States, Social service and race relations
Format
Document (PDF)
Interview with Toni Mountain – ca. 2008
Title
Interview with Toni Mountain – ca. 2008.
Creator
Mountain, Toni (Interviewee), Carter, Issac M. (Interviewer)
Date Issued
2008-02-13
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT77824
Subject Headings
Caribbean Area -- Emigration and immigration, Miami (Fla.) -- Social conditions, Riots -- Florida -- Miami, Miami (Fla.) -- Ethnic relations, Miami (Fla.) -- Race relations, Oral histories --Florida., Oral history
Format
Set of related objects
Racial Inequalities in America: Examining Socieoeconomic Statistics Using the Semantic Web
Title
Racial Inequalities in America: Examining Socieoeconomic Statistics Using the Semantic Web.
Creator
Terrell, David J, Shankar, Ravi, Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description
The visualization of recent episodes regarding apparently unjustifiable deaths of minorities, caused by police and federal law enforcement agencies, has been amplified through today's social media and television networks. Such events may seem to imply that issues concerning racial inequalities in America are getting worse. However, we do not know whether such indications are factual; whether this is a recent phenomenon, whether racial inequality is escalating relative to earlier decades, or...
Show moreThe visualization of recent episodes regarding apparently unjustifiable deaths of minorities, caused by police and federal law enforcement agencies, has been amplified through today's social media and television networks. Such events may seem to imply that issues concerning racial inequalities in America are getting worse. However, we do not know whether such indications are factual; whether this is a recent phenomenon, whether racial inequality is escalating relative to earlier decades, or whether it is better in certain regions of the nation compared to others. We have built a semantic engine for the purpose of querying statistics on various metropolitan areas, based on a database of individual deaths. Separately, we have built a database of demographic data on poverty, income, education attainment, and crime statistics for the top 25 most populous metropolitan areas. These data will ultimately be combined with government data to evaluate this hyp othesis, and provide a tool for predictive analytics. In this thesis, we will provide preliminary results in that direction. The methodology in our research consisted of multiple steps. We initially described our requirements and drew data from numerous datasets, which contained information on the 23 highest populated Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States. After all of the required data was obtained we decomposed the Metropolitan Statistical Area records into domain components and created an Ontology/Taxonomy via Protege to determine an hierarchy level of nouns towards identifying significant keywords throughout the datasets to use as search queries. Next, we used a Semantic Web implementation accompanied with Python programming language, and FuXi to build and instantiate a vocabulary. The Ontology was then parsed for the entered search query and returned corresponding results providing a semantically organized a nd relevant output in RDF/XML format.
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Date Issued
2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004550, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004550
Subject Headings
Data mining, Education -- Demographic aspects -- United States -- Statistics, Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions, Minorities -- United States -- Statistics, Race -- United States -- Statistics, Semantic Web, United States -- Ethnic relations -- Statistics, United States -- Race relations -- Statistics
Format
Document (PDF)
Carpetbag rule in Florida : the inside workings of the reconstruction of civil government in Florida after the close of the Civil War
Title
Carpetbag rule in Florida : the inside workings of the reconstruction of civil government in Florida after the close of the Civil War.
Creator
Wallace, John
Abstract/Description
Quadricentennial Edition of the Floridian Facsimile Reprint Series of the 1888 editions with prefatory material, introduction notes, and index added. New material copyright by the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions of Florida. Lithoprinted by Douglas Printing Company, Inc. Jacksonville, Florida
Date Issued
1964
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000389
Subject Headings
Race relations -- Political aspects, African Americans -- Politics and government, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Florida -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950, Southern States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 19th century
Format
E-book
Pelts, Plumes, and Hides
Title
Pelts, Plumes, and Hides: White Traders Among the Seminole Indians, 1870-1930.
Creator
Kersey, Harry A.
Date Issued
1975
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/FA00000027.pdf
Subject Headings
History, Fur trade, History, Seminole Indians, Race Relations, Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies
Format
E-book
Bleeding roots
Title
Bleeding roots: the absence and evidence of the lynched black female body.
Creator
Williams, Tinea., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Scholars of the literary depictions of lynching have given the majority of their attention to the emasculation of the black male, but the representation of the black female lynch victim has been overlooked. My thesis examines the deaths of black women that had the same effect as lynching practices used against men. This specific literary form of lynching will concentrate on two plays: Mary P. Burrill's They That Sit in Darkness (1919) and Marita Bonner's Exit: An Illusion (1929) and two...
Show moreScholars of the literary depictions of lynching have given the majority of their attention to the emasculation of the black male, but the representation of the black female lynch victim has been overlooked. My thesis examines the deaths of black women that had the same effect as lynching practices used against men. This specific literary form of lynching will concentrate on two plays: Mary P. Burrill's They That Sit in Darkness (1919) and Marita Bonner's Exit: An Illusion (1929) and two novels by Toni Morrison, Beloved and Sula. Considering the contours of these black female deaths we can expand the traditional definition of lynching to include the black female lynch victim. The aspects that make her death a lynching are encased in more subtleties than a traditional definition of lynching allows for, and less visible.
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Date Issued
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/199329
Subject Headings
African Americans, Crimes against, Lynching in literature, African Americans in literature, Race relations, History and criticism
Format
Document (PDF)
Vampire films and the social construction of whiteness
Title
Vampire films and the social construction of whiteness.
Creator
McQueen, Michael Anthony., Florida Atlantic University, Budd, Michael N.
Abstract/Description
This thesis explores the manner in which whiteness is represented and constructed in Western media through analysis of six narrative films about vampires. The study hypothesizes that vampire films have been underexamined as a site of contestation over the meanings of racial differences because they have been considered a "white" genre. Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model is used as the principal methodology, but other theories (e.g. semiotics) are used to explore the subtexts of the films....
Show moreThis thesis explores the manner in which whiteness is represented and constructed in Western media through analysis of six narrative films about vampires. The study hypothesizes that vampire films have been underexamined as a site of contestation over the meanings of racial differences because they have been considered a "white" genre. Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model is used as the principal methodology, but other theories (e.g. semiotics) are used to explore the subtexts of the films. The study pays attention to the historical moment of the films' production and explores instances where race works in tandem with gender to construct Others.
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Date Issued
1999
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15735
Subject Headings
Vampire films--History and criticism, Race relations in motion pictures, Whites in literature, Minorities in motion pictures
Format
Document (PDF)
end of race as we know it: Slavery, segregation, and the African American quest for redress
Title
The end of race as we know it: Slavery, segregation, and the African American quest for redress.
Creator
Dottin, Paul Anthony., Florida Atlantic University, Lyman, Stanford M.
Abstract/Description
This is a study of one of the most controversial public matters concerning race in America today: the African American reparations movement for slavery and segregation. This issue is hotly contested because racial identity and the relative status and well-being of ethnic groups in America, a configuration I refer to as "race as we know it," is inextricably linked to matters of prejudice, pride, property, and public policy both presently and historically. Any substantial shift in the relative...
Show moreThis is a study of one of the most controversial public matters concerning race in America today: the African American reparations movement for slavery and segregation. This issue is hotly contested because racial identity and the relative status and well-being of ethnic groups in America, a configuration I refer to as "race as we know it," is inextricably linked to matters of prejudice, pride, property, and public policy both presently and historically. Any substantial shift in the relative position of blacks and whites, America's most iconically opposed groups, promises to alter fundamental dynamics between these two populations, effectively ending "race as we know it," if not racism and racial hierarchy per se. Randall Robinson, author of The Debt, the most important work advocating reparations for African Americans, sees reparations as the means by which to break the historical "habit" of American society of locking most blacks and whites into positions of inferiority and superiority respectively. David Horowitz, author of Uncivil Wars , the most famous refutation of Robinson's argument, sees reparations as an all-out attack on America's "heritage" of racial progress because it threatens today's allegedly "color-blind consensus" with "reverse-racism." So put, these opposed positions express the fundamental fears of many whites and the highest hopes of many blacks. Hence, the conflict over reparations, a struggle over the economics and ethics of equality, is simultaneously and inseparably no less a struggle over the future of race in America. With the societal stake so high, the present study constitutes a much-needed critical scholarly attempt to "save" this public matter from the ideological excesses of these powerfully opposed manifestos. This study will analyze their respective arguments by using a multidisciplinary and comparative framework employing data, concepts, and theories from the disciplines of anthropology, economics, cultural studies, history, political science, and sociology. Its comparative orientation juxtaposes different forms of human bondage, class composition, racial identity and community formation, and political movements. A critical analysis of primary and secondary sources using qualitative and quantitative methods will also be employed.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT12013
Subject Headings
African Americans--Reparations, African Americans--Civil rights, Racism--United States, United States--Race relations
Format
Document (PDF)
FORGOTTEN SOUTHERNERS: THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BLACKS AND POOR WHITES DURING RECONSTRUCTION
Title
THE FORGOTTEN SOUTHERNERS: THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BLACKS AND POOR WHITES DURING RECONSTRUCTION.
Creator
SIDDALL, YVONNE ROBENA., Florida Atlantic University, Curl, Donald W.
Abstract/Description
This was written as a beginning study of the relationships between blacks and poor whites during Reconstruction. The heritage of slavery is discussed as a prerequisite for understanding later developments. A brief synopsis of Reconstruction is included. The last chapters concern the actual relations between blacks and poor whites. Reasons for the inability of these two groups to ally and cooperate lie in the low opinion each had for the other and the inability of poor whites to allow the...
Show moreThis was written as a beginning study of the relationships between blacks and poor whites during Reconstruction. The heritage of slavery is discussed as a prerequisite for understanding later developments. A brief synopsis of Reconstruction is included. The last chapters concern the actual relations between blacks and poor whites. Reasons for the inability of these two groups to ally and cooperate lie in the low opinion each had for the other and the inability of poor whites to allow the Negro a measure of equality. For the poor white the Negro was too much a threat as an equal. As a result violence, intimidation and suppression were practiced by poor whites against blacks and their white Republican allies, until the South was finally redeemed by white Democrats and southern demagogues.
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Date Issued
1972
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13492
Subject Headings
Reconstruction (US history, 1865-1877)--Southern States, Southern States--Race relations, Southern States--History--1865-1877
Format
Document (PDF)
Fallen from disgrace: tales of disillusion in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and v.s. Naipaul’s Guerrillas
Title
Fallen from disgrace: tales of disillusion in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and v.s. Naipaul’s Guerrillas.
Creator
Osborne, Tamar C., Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Despite radical differences in their political commentary, Amiri Baraka and V.S. Naipaul’s literary careers have obsessively centered on the divided Self of the colonized artist. Esther Jackson argues that Baraka’s “search for form” becomes “symbolic of a continuing effort to mediate between warring factions within the perceiving mind” (38). Similarly, many critics have interpreted Naipaul’s grave manifestos as the outpourings of a writer disenchanted with his own past and national identity....
Show moreDespite radical differences in their political commentary, Amiri Baraka and V.S. Naipaul’s literary careers have obsessively centered on the divided Self of the colonized artist. Esther Jackson argues that Baraka’s “search for form” becomes “symbolic of a continuing effort to mediate between warring factions within the perceiving mind” (38). Similarly, many critics have interpreted Naipaul’s grave manifestos as the outpourings of a writer disenchanted with his own past and national identity. For Selwyn Cudjoe, Naipaul’s work is “reflective of a man who failed to discover any psychological balance in his life” (172-173). This thesis analyzes how Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman and V.S. Naipaul’s Guerrillas engage with various fairy tale conventions in order to narrate the colonized victim’s divided Self. These narratives ultimately function as anti-fairy tales, revealing the black protagonist’s accursed position in the symbolic order.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004312, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004312
Subject Headings
Baraka, Amiri -- 1934-2014 -- Dutchman -- Criticism and interpretation, Consciousness in literature, Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad -- 1932- -- Guerrillas -- Criticism and interpretation, Race in literature, Race relations in literature, Women, White in literature
Format
Document (PDF)
One nation under gods
Title
One nation under gods: interfaith symbolism and the "American" race in the works of Jean Toomer.
Creator
Fallon, Laura Gayle., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This study argues that the interfaith symbolism present in the works of American author Jean Toomer undermines dominant Christian justifications for racism in the United States. It also discusses the ways in which Toomer's interfaith symbolism promotes the establishment of a race Toomer called the "American" race, a group of interracial, interreligious people whom Toomer hoped would change the way race was viewed in the United States. The multireligious references in Toomer's works challenge...
Show moreThis study argues that the interfaith symbolism present in the works of American author Jean Toomer undermines dominant Christian justifications for racism in the United States. It also discusses the ways in which Toomer's interfaith symbolism promotes the establishment of a race Toomer called the "American" race, a group of interracial, interreligious people whom Toomer hoped would change the way race was viewed in the United States. The multireligious references in Toomer's works challenge constricted definitions of both religion and race by highlighting interchangeable religious ideals from several world religions.
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Date Issued
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/359926
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Symbolism in literature, Race in popular culture, Race relations
Format
Document (PDF)
Interview with Hattie Mae Pompey – ca. 2004
Title
Interview with Hattie Mae Pompey – ca. 2004.
Creator
Pompey, Hattie Ruth (Interviewee), Stein, Nancy (Interviewer)
Date Issued
2004-02-19, 2004-02-19
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT72814
Subject Headings
Delray Beach (Fla.), African American, Carver High School, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history, Florida --Race relations, African Americans --Segregation --Florida --History --20th century
Format
Set of related objects
Miami's second ghetto
Title
Miami's second ghetto.
Creator
Van Dyke, Teresa B., Florida Atlantic University, Mohl, Raymond A.
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the social and institutional forces that created the second ghetto in Miami during the three decades following World War II. During this period, Miami's inner-city ghetto was razed and a new ghetto, sanctioned by federal and local legislation and agencies, was established in the northwest section of Dade County. The northwest section, which contained a few black enclaves in 1945, was transformed into a sprawling black ghetto by 1960. The transition of...
Show moreThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the social and institutional forces that created the second ghetto in Miami during the three decades following World War II. During this period, Miami's inner-city ghetto was razed and a new ghetto, sanctioned by federal and local legislation and agencies, was established in the northwest section of Dade County. The northwest section, which contained a few black enclaves in 1945, was transformed into a sprawling black ghetto by 1960. The transition of the area from predominantly white to black produced racial conflicts that erupted into violence as the white majority tried to uphold segregation in Miami. In 1980, 85 percent of Dade County's African American population resided in the northwest section. This did not happen by accident; Miami's second ghetto was shaped, maintained, and reinforced through government policy, the real estate industry, and racial prejudice.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15047
Subject Headings
African Americans--Housing--Florida--Miami--History, Miami (Fla)--Race relations--History, Housing policy--Florida--Miami--History, Discrimination in housing--Florida--Miami--History
Format
Document (PDF)
Long road to rebellion: Miami's Liberty City riot of 1968
Title
Long road to rebellion: Miami's Liberty City riot of 1968.
Creator
Tscheschlok, Eric G., Florida Atlantic University, Mohl, Raymond A.
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines the circumstances leading to the 1968 ghetto riot in the Liberty City community of Miami, Florida. After placing the Liberty City uprising in national and local contexts, the thesis chronicles race relations and African American living conditions in Miami from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s. The thesis focuses upon major grievances of Miami's black community in the 1960s. These included deplorable housing conditions, economic exploitation, bleak employment...
Show moreThis thesis examines the circumstances leading to the 1968 ghetto riot in the Liberty City community of Miami, Florida. After placing the Liberty City uprising in national and local contexts, the thesis chronicles race relations and African American living conditions in Miami from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s. The thesis focuses upon major grievances of Miami's black community in the 1960s. These included deplorable housing conditions, economic exploitation, bleak employment prospects, racial discrimination, poor police-community relations, and economic competition with Cuban refugees who settled in the Miami area during the 1960s. The thesis argues that the riot in Liberty City constituted a form of African American protest against these factors. In brief, Miami's 1968 ghetto revolt marked an attempt by local black residents to improve their life chances and living standards by demanding empowerment within their own communities and control over the processes that affected their lives.
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Date Issued
1995
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15202
Subject Headings
Riots--Florida--Miami, African Americans--Florida--Social conditions, Miami (Fla)--Race relations--History, Miami (Fla)--Social conditions
Format
Document (PDF)

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