A "Far North Dixie Land": Black Settlement, Discrimination, and Community in Urban Alaska. Issue 1 (15th November 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- A "Far North Dixie Land": Black Settlement, Discrimination, and Community in Urban Alaska. Issue 1 (15th November 2019)
- Main Title:
- A "Far North Dixie Land": Black Settlement, Discrimination, and Community in Urban Alaska
- Authors:
- Hartman, Ian C
Reamer, David - Abstract:
- Abstract: Though it never ranked among the top destinations of the Great Migration, Alaska nevertheless enticed thousands of African Americans during the postwar decades. On the one hand, Black Alaskans experienced the lamentable patterns that defined American race relations in the twentieth century: housing and job discrimination alongside marginalization and racial violence. On the other hand, Black men and women also found in Alaska a place to make their own. This article presents a case study of urban history in the American West and demonstrates that despite its distance from other metropolitan centers, Alaska's largest city, Anchorage, was not excluded from major postwar trends. Rather, many of the defining through-lines of midcentury U.S. history—mass migration, racial discrimination, community formation, urban planning, and civic activism, to name a few—were present and comprise a dynamic story that until now has never been told.
- Is Part Of:
- Western historical quarterly. Volume 51:Issue 1(2020)
- Journal:
- Western historical quarterly
- Issue:
- Volume 51:Issue 1(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 51, Issue 1 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 51
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0051-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 29
- Page End:
- 48
- Publication Date:
- 2019-11-15
- Subjects:
- West (U.S.) -- History -- Periodicals
United States, West
Histoire
Amérique du Nord (Ouest)
Electronic journals
History
Periodicals
Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme)
Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)
978.005 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.jstor.org/journals/00433810.html ↗
http://www.historycooperative.org/whqindex.html ↗
http://www.usu.edu/history/whq/ ↗
http://whq.oxfordjournals.org/ ↗
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1093/whq/whz097 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1939-8603
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - 9300.817000
British Library DSC - BLDSS-3PM
British Library HMNTS - ELD Digital store - Ingest File:
- 12810.xml