HIUS 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Darwinism, Alain Leroy Locke, Blockbusting
24 Oct 2016
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February 12, 2015: african americans move north. Movement of blacks from the south to the north in 1917. Millions of workers went into the army; factories desperate for workers. Combined with the fact that they were mistreated in the south. The failure of reconstruction: in . the whole rural south the black farmers are bound by law and freedom to an economic slavery, for which the only escape is death or the penitentiary. Dubois: social darwinist william graham sumner"s stateways vs. folkways. We can change the laws, but the people aren"t ready to change yet. Old south vs. new south: black journalist ida b. Ghettoized blacks: were they the last of the immigrants. 40,800: ghettos were highly african american but they were diversified. Different social classes, not all extremely poor: robert park"s natural areas and last of the immigrants theory. A natural area that served as an entry into these societies.
