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Adeshkin, Ilya Nikolaevich. "The participation of African Americans in the American Expeditionary Forces during the World War I." Genesis: исторические исследования, no. 5 (May 2021): 57–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-868x.2021.5.35717.

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This article examines the participation of African Americans in the World War I in the ranks of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the 1917 – 1918. The author studies the attitude of the African-American community towards participation in the World War I, describes the peculiarities of military service of African American soldiers in the American Expeditionary Forces, and reveals the manifestations of racial discrimination. The article also reviews the attitude of French soldiers and officers towards African American soldiers of the U. S. Army, analyzes the impact of the acquired combat experience and sociocultural interaction with foreign soldiers upon the activity of African American population in fighting for their rights and freedoms in the United States. In Russian historiography, the participation of African Americans in the American Expeditionary Forces during the World War I, peculiarities of their service, and the impact of war on self-consciousness of this category of military servicemen have not previously become the subject of special research. Based on the article. The conclusion is made that the attitude of African American community towards participation in the World War I was quite ambiguous. Their soldiers faced different forms of discrimination during their military service: they could not serve in the Marine Corps and other elite units, and most of the time were engaged in the rear. A different experience received African American soldiers from the units transferred under the leadership of the French Army, whose officers treated them with respect; the blood shed for their country, combat experience and respectful of the allies enhanced desire of the African Americans to gain equal civil rights and freedoms in their homeland.
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Bolzenius, Sandra. "Asserting Citizenship: Black Women in the Women’s Army Corps (wac)." International Journal of Military History and Historiography 39, no. 2 (October 10, 2019): 208–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24683302-03902004.

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Military service has long been seen as one of the few routes available to African American men to demonstrate their rights to full citizenship. In 1942, the Women’s Army Corps (wac) opened this path for black women. More than 6,500 black Wacs served during the Second World War, yet, marginalized while in uniform and later overshadowed in narratives of black servicemen and white servicewomen, they and their unique experiences remain largely unknown outside of academia. This article examines the multiple subordinate positions to which the United States Army confined black Wacs, as black female soldiers, during the first years of the corps; investigates the army’s gender and racial policies and their civilian and military roots; and forefronts the actions of black Wacs who, by challenging their subordination, laid claim to their full rights as soldiers and as citizens.
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Khan, Shaza. "Muslims in the United States." American Journal of Islam and Society 22, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 123–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v22i1.1740.

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Karen Leonard’s book, Muslims in the United States: The State ofResearch, seeks to provide “a useful research tool for exploring” the largebody of social science research that exists on Islam and Muslims in theUnited States (p. ix). As a “non-Muslim secular scholar” and anthropologist(p. xi), she reviews research that examines the lives of all those whoself-identify as Muslim, including those generally excluded from such discussions,such as Ahmedis, Five Percenters, and homosexuals. The varietyof topics explored in this review promises to draw a broad readership.Topics as diverse as immigration and racialization, international conflictsand intra-Muslim tensions, “un-mosqued” Muslims and extremist ideologuesare all covered. Therefore, those interested in sociology, history, religion,and, more specifically, individuals researching Islam and Muslimswill benefit from reading Muslims in the United States.The book is divided into three sections. In part 1, “Historical Overviewof Muslims in the United States,” Leonard briefly introduces Islam’s basictenets and proceeds to discuss the historical and political realities thataffected the growth of African-American, Arab, and South Asian Muslimpopulations in this country. She identifies three sets of issues that have historically arisen in research and theory building on Muslims in the UnitedStates: legitimacy as it relates to African-American Muslim movements,the problem of religious authority in the smaller national-origin and sectariancommunities, and the lack of research on the lives of “un-mosqued,”“invisible,” or secular Muslims ...
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Diamond, Jeff. "African-American Attitudes towards United States Immigration Policy." International Migration Review 32, no. 2 (1998): 451. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2547191.

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Diamond, Jeff. "African-American Attitudes towards United States Immigration Policy." International Migration Review 32, no. 2 (June 1998): 451–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019791839803200207.

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McFadden, Emily Jean. "Kinship Care in the United States." Adoption & Fostering 22, no. 3 (October 1998): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857599802200303.

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Within the last decade in the United States, kinship care (placement with relatives or those non-related friends of family known as fictive kin) has evolved from an infrequently utilised option for temporary care and/or permanence, to a widely used and often preferred solution for children in need of care. Emily Jean McFadden discusses the background to this development and how it is related to the rising placement of children of colour, particularly African American children and adolescents who are over-represented in the American foster care system. Wide professional recognition of the importance of culture in identity formation and advocacy by professional groups has led to the acknowledgment of kinship care as a preferred placement option; it is now used extensively in many states, both in informal care which takes place outside of court intervention and in the formal foster care system.
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Williams, Karen Jaynes, Martha A. Hargraves, and Keith C. Norris. "Book Reviews: African American Health in the United States." Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 11, no. 2 (August 2, 2008): 143–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-008-9168-9.

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Hall, Melvin E. "Evaluation’s Race Problem in the United States." American Journal of Evaluation 39, no. 4 (October 22, 2018): 569–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1098214018792624.

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Despite political and rhetorical pronouncements of a reduction in racism, growing inequity in U.S. society continues to feature race as a prominent fault line with no evidence of reduction on the horizon. Of significant concern is the degree to which inequity among racially identified subgroups of the population link to policies and practices of local, state, and federal government and thereby influence the operation and evaluation of important programs and services. Evaluation as a principal tool of knowledge creation on behalf of government and the public trust must examine its role with respect to these alarming trends and potential vulnerability. The author examines how race and racism (particularly as focused on African American communities) may influence the theories, models, practices, and techniques of evaluation and calls for creation of an ongoing forum in the American Journal of Evaluation where these critical issues can receive thoughtful and continuous attention from the field.
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Obraztsova, Margarita. "Economic relations between the United States and South Africa." Russia and America in the 21st Century, no. 2 (2021): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207054760015880-5.

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The article analyses the role of the South African mining sector in the development of long-term relations between the United States and South Africa. Largely with the help of American investments the South African mining industry was formed. Thereby America provided its firms with access to South Africa’s rich resource potential. The increasing dependence of the United States on those types of minerals that are of strategic importance for its defense industry makes relations with South Africa a priority. Therefore, US policy is primarily aimed at ensuring the access of American companies to the South African market.
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Furman, Andrew, Tom Lutz, and Susanna Ashton. "These "Colored" United States: African American Essays from the 1920s." MELUS 24, no. 1 (1999): 262. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/467923.

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Slay, David Henson. "New masters on the Mississippi the United States colored troops of the middle Mississippi Valley /." [Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University, 2009. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-05012009-121518/unrestricted/Slay.pdf.

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Thomas, Joyce. "The "Double V" was for victory : black soldiers the black protest and World War II /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148784688577963.

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Higham, Bryan. "Soldiers and Civil Rights: The Impact of World War II on Jacksonville's African American Community, 1954-1960." UNF Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/560.

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This research explores the role of returning African American veterans in the Civil Rights Movement in Jacksonville from 1945-1960. Black World War II veterans not only faced the typical challenges of returning to civilian life, but took up the fight for equality as well. While this work acknowledges existing arguments about black veterans in the Civil Rights Movement, it emphasizes and analyzes the importance of their military benefits and experience. The mechanizing revolution that occurred in the United States military in this era had a lasting impact on the soldiers fighting as well as communities back home, Jacksonville included. This changing military dynamic necessitated an increase in support positions, meaning African American soldiers received training in various fields like combat, supply, and intelligence. This training translated into useful skills in the postwar period. The experiences of black soldiers while overseas also played a pivotal role, especially their interaction with foreign cultures. Often foreigners referred to black soldiers as "American" leaving off any racial distinction. Additionally, black veterans were able to attend college in unprecedented numbers because of their GI Bill benefits. Ernest Jackson earned undergraduate and legal degrees, and led the attack on segregation in Jacksonville. Elcee Lucas also went to school after exiting the service but used his military skills to orchestrate voter registration drives, and organize political campaigns. With their new skills and education, these men were not only able to organize and lead others but were equipped with the tools necessary to challenge the institutions that subverted their equality, greatly influencing the path of the Civil Rights Movement. Through their efforts, black veterans helped expose inadequacies with the existing structures and laws, thus adding to the justification for the later civil rights tactics that intentionally challenged and broke Jim Crow laws.
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Cunningham, Dana Claire. "African American children in the child welfare system: An American tragedy." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1895.

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Jones, Voresa E. "The perspectives and experiences of black female naval officer [sic.] /." access online version, DTIC, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA361432.

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Angelo, Davette. "You are what you wear: The examination of fashion leadership and general leadership among African American and Caucasian American college students." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28387/.

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The purpose of this study was twofold. First, the study compared fashion personality characteristics and shopping behaviors of African-American and Caucasian-American college students. Secondly, this study examined characteristics of leadership in general, and fashion leadership specifically, on fashion personality characteristics. The fashion personality characteristics studied included fashion leadership, fashion involvement, shopping enjoyment, and fashion consciousness. The participants consisted of 268 African Americans and 239 Caucasian Americans from two universities in the United States. Ethnicity was found to be an influence on fashion personality characteristics and shopping behaviors in this study. African Americans in the sample were found to have higher levels of fashion personality characteristics and shopping behaviors than Caucasian Americans. Fashion leadership was found to be positively related to general leadership, fashion involvement, shopping enjoyment and fashion consciousness. General leadership was found to be positively related to fashion involvement, shopping enjoyment, fashion consciousness, academic classification level. However, there was no significant difference found between general leadership and age.
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Potyondy, Patrick Ryan. "Making, Preserving, and Redeveloping Public Housing in the United States." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461324499.

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Wilson, Lorraine P. "Recruitment and retention practices for African American students in music units of selected colleges and universities." Virtual Press, 1990. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/722779.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate recruiting and retention practices for African American music students in selected colleges and universities. This study also investigated model programs formulated for the improvement of African American student enrollment in higher education, generally or in other professional fields and specialized programs.Subjects in the study were twenty-two music executives in music units of selected colleges and universities based on three general criteria as follows: (1) Historically Black Colleges and Universities whose enrollments were 4,000 and above; (2) Institutions that participated in the Richardson Study and cited for having success in minority student access, retention, and graduation; and (3) Institutions that participated in the National Black Student Retention Conferences (1987 or 1988).A survey questionnaire was completed by the subjects in order to determine the effectiveness of recruitment and retention practices and strategies employed by music units. The data were organized for analysis by frequencies, percentages and calculations of chi-squared statistics.The results of this study suggest that there are a variety of recruiting practices and admission policies that may impact increased enrollment of African American students in music units. Various retention practices were determined that may promote persistence and achievement. Support services were identified as financial resources and special assistance programs. Other factors included non-academic retention predictors and the presence of African American faculty in the music unit.Another valuable source of information regarding the recruitment and retention of Black students was found in eight model programs. Recruiting strategies included outreach programs, precollege programs, linkages with elementary and secondary schools, faculty, staff and alumni involvement, and flexible, multiple criteria for college admission. Retention strategies included support services that focused on the academic, cultural and social needs of African American students.This study revealed numerous findings which may be employed by music units. These findings offer supportive evidence for the development of model programs that promote and enhance access, retention, and graduation for the African American music student in higher education.
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Ukiru, Judi Minage. "Acculturation experience of Africa immigrants in the United States of American." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2127.

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The conclusions extracted from this research project show that little research has been done on social issues presented by the African immigrant to America. Those charged with public welfare research and intervention must develop tools and strategies necessary to assess the needs of African immigrants, to facilitate their improved adjustment to their environment. African immigrants in the United States can benefit from similar research designs and resources accorded to the Latino and Asian populations.
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Ade, Julius N. "Immigration and obesity in African American adults residing in the United States." ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/798.

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Obesity increases risk for heart disease, hypertension and other chronic diseases, and it affects minority ethnic groups disproportionately. However, it is unknown if African American immigrant adults, an increasing segment of the population, are at higher risk for obesity than African American non-immigrant adults residing in the United States. This study examined the association of obesity and immigrant status by comparing African American immigrant adults now residing in the United States to the general population of African American adults. The socio-ecological model provided the conceptual framework for this study. This study used a cross-sectional quantitative self-administered web-based survey to collect primary data on 303 adult African American immigrants and non-immigrants residing in the United States. Data were analyzed using EpiInfo statistical software. It was hypothesized that the risk of obesity in African American adults is associated with immigration status after adjusting for other factors. The data revealed no significant relationship between obesity and immigration status in African American adults. However, binge drinking and other variables were revealed to be risk factors for morbid obesity in African American immigrants. The results impact social change by demonstrating that obesity control programs targeted at African American immigrant communities should incorporate socio-ecological risk factors. Specific interventions that could be implemented should include screening for alcohol consumption.
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Books on the topic "United States. United States. African American soldiers United States"

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United States Colored troops, 1863-1867. Gettysburg, Pa: Thomas Publications, 1990.

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Steward, T. G. Buffalo soldiers: The colored regulars in the United States Army. Amherst, N.Y: Humanity Books, 2003.

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M, Bielakowski Alexander, Field Ron, Field Ron, and Bielakowski Alexander M, eds. Buffalo soldiers: African American troops in the US forces 1866-1945. Oxford: Osprey Pub., 2008.

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Mwadilifu, Mwalimu I. Cuffeytown in service to America: Afro-Virginian veteran soldiers and sailors from 1863-2002. Chesapeake, Va: ECA Associates, 2002.

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The buffalo soldiers: Their epic story and major campaigns. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, 2015.

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Eastern National Park and Monument Association., ed. The Civil War's Black soldiers. [Conshohocken, Pa.]: Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1996.

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Greene, Robert Ewell. Who were the real buffalo soldiers?: Black defenders of America. Fort Washington, Md: R.E. Greene, Publisher, 1994.

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Roy, Caesar A. Forgotten warriors: Black soldiers in the American Civil War. Triangle, VA: C.A. Roy, 2002.

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Ricks, Lucille. A Buffalo soldier's legacy. [Arizona?]: L. Ricks, 1993.

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Buffalo soldiers. New York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1993.

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Mario, LaMothe. "The United States of Lucia." In The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance, 348–54. New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. |: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315191225-69.

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Carter, Jacoby Adeshei. "Lecture 5: Negro Achievement in the United States." In African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures, 73–88. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56572-3_6.

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Edwards, Patricia A., and Kristen L. White. "Partnering with African American Parents in the United States." In Superdiversity and Teacher Education, 237–51. New York, NY : Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2021.: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003038887-16.

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Carter, Jacoby Adeshei. "Lecture 4: The Negro’s Sociological Position in the United States." In African American Contributions to the Americas’ Cultures, 57–71. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56572-3_5.

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Lee, A. Robert. "“Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me”: Modern African American Fiction." In A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction, 109–21. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444310108.ch9.

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Barry, Ellen M. "From Plantations to Prisons: African American Women Prisoners in the United States." In Beyond Slavery, 75–88. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230113893_5.

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Sears, Christine E. "“Once a Citizen of the United States of America, But at Present the Most Miserable Slave”." In American Slaves and African Masters, 43–64. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137295033_4.

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Warrick, John. "The Blacks and Its Impact on African American Theatre in the United States." In Jean Genet: Performance and Politics, 131–42. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230595439_11.

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Kanakamedala, Pratibha. "“Considered a Citizen of the United States”: George DeGrasse, a South Asian in Early (African) America." In India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s, 229–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62334-4_8.

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Williams, Richard Allen. "Profiles in Courage: African American Medical Pioneers in the United States—The Earliest Black Practitioners." In Blacks in Medicine, 33–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41960-8_2.

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Conference papers on the topic "United States. United States. African American soldiers United States"

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Holt, Yolanda F. "Sociophonetic analysis of vowel variation in African American English in the Southern United States." In 172nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Acoustical Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/2.0000453.

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Madhivanan, Purnima, Makella Coudray, Daniel Ruiz-Perez, Brett Colbert, Karl Krupp, Hansi Kumari, Kalai Mathee, and Giri Narasimhan. "P372 Bacterial vaginosis and high-risk human papillomavirus coinfection among african american women in the united states." In Abstracts for the STI & HIV World Congress (Joint Meeting of the 23rd ISSTDR and 20th IUSTI), July 14–17, 2019, Vancouver, Canada. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2019-sti.474.

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Vidal, Adriana C., Jennifer S. Smith, Edwin Iversen, Fidel Valea, Rex Bentley, Margaret Gradison, Kimberly Yarnall, et al. "Abstract PR01: HPV genotype distribution and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in African American and white women living in the Southeastern United States." In Abstracts: Twelfth Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research; Oct 27-30, 2013; National Harbor, MD. American Association for Cancer Research, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1940-6215.prev-13-pr01.

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Neal, Alexis A. Decline of African American Enlistment in the United States Army. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, November 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada510002.

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Jackson, Dale O. Strengthening United States National Security Through Education in the African American Community. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada278361.

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Afsaruddin, Asma. NEGOTIATING VIRTUE AND REALPOLITIK IN ISLAMIC GOOD GOVERNANCE. IIIT, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47816/01.002.20.

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These words of John Lewis represent a scathing criticism of the contemporary failures of the United States, the oldest and possibly most vibrant democratic nation-state in the world. The words also express a deep disappointment that the principles of equality and justice enshrined in the US constitution have been honored more in the breach when they pertain to African-Americans, many of whose ancestors arrived on these shores long before those of their Euro-American compatriots.
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Lazonick, William, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz. The Unmaking of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp159.

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In the decade after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, African Americans made historic gains in accessing employment opportunities in racially integrated workplaces in U.S. business firms and government agencies. In the previous working papers in this series, we have shown that in the 1960s and 1970s, Blacks without college degrees were gaining access to the American middle class by moving into well-paid unionized jobs in capital-intensive mass production industries. At that time, major U.S. companies paid these blue-collar workers middle-class wages, offered stable employment, and provided employees with health and retirement benefits. Of particular importance to Blacks was the opening up to them of unionized semiskilled operative and skilled craft jobs, for which in a number of industries, and particularly those in the automobile and electronic manufacturing sectors, there was strong demand. In addition, by the end of the 1970s, buoyed by affirmative action and the growth of public-service employment, Blacks were experiencing upward mobility through employment in government agencies at local, state, and federal levels as well as in civil-society organizations, largely funded by government, to operate social and community development programs aimed at urban areas where Blacks lived. By the end of the 1970s, there was an emergent blue-collar Black middle class in the United States. Most of these workers had no more than high-school educations but had sufficient earnings and benefits to provide their families with economic security, including realistic expectations that their children would have the opportunity to move up the economic ladder to join the ranks of the college-educated white-collar middle class. That is what had happened for whites in the post-World War II decades, and given the momentum provided by the dominant position of the United States in global manufacturing and the nation’s equal employment opportunity legislation, there was every reason to believe that Blacks would experience intergenerational upward mobility along a similar education-and-employment career path. That did not happen. Overall, the 1980s and 1990s were decades of economic growth in the United States. For the emerging blue-collar Black middle class, however, the experience was of job loss, economic insecurity, and downward mobility. As the twentieth century ended and the twenty-first century began, moreover, it became apparent that this downward spiral was not confined to Blacks. Whites with only high-school educations also saw their blue-collar employment opportunities disappear, accompanied by lower wages, fewer benefits, and less security for those who continued to find employment in these jobs. The distress experienced by white Americans with the decline of the blue-collar middle class follows the downward trajectory that has adversely affected the socioeconomic positions of the much more vulnerable blue-collar Black middle class from the early 1980s. In this paper, we document when, how, and why the unmaking of the blue-collar Black middle class occurred and intergenerational upward mobility of Blacks to the college-educated middle class was stifled. We focus on blue-collar layoffs and manufacturing-plant closings in an important sector for Black employment, the automobile industry from the early 1980s. We then document the adverse impact on Blacks that has occurred in government-sector employment in a financialized economy in which the dominant ideology is that concentration of income among the richest households promotes productive investment, with government spending only impeding that objective. Reduction of taxes primarily on the wealthy and the corporate sector, the ascendancy of political and economic beliefs that celebrate the efficiency and dynamism of “free market” business enterprise, and the denigration of the idea that government can solve social problems all combined to shrink government budgets, diminish regulatory enforcement, and scuttle initiatives that previously provided greater opportunity for African Americans in the government and civil-society sectors.
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