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English
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The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people, " "offals, " "rubbish, " "lazy lubbers, " and "crackers." By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called "clay eaters" and "sandhillers, " known for prematurely-aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular...
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"Tracing the contours of black migration to the suburbs over the course of the whole last century and across the entire United States, Places of Their Own will be a foundational book for anyone interested in the African American experience or the role of race and class in the making of America's suburbs."--Jacket.
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Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"By focusing on "racialization"--The marginalizing process in which racial categories are imposed on groups of people based on an outward characteristic - Charles Orser shows how historical archaeology can contribute to the study of race through the conscious examination of material culture. He demonstrates this in two case studies, one from the Five Points excavation in New York City, focusing on an immigrant Irish population, and the second from...
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