The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America

by James N. Gregory

Book Overview

Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America by "southernizing" communities and transforming important cultural and political institutions.

Challenging the image of the migrants as helpless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807856517
• ISBN13: 9780807856512
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"