Migration, Community, and Stereotype: Shaping Racial Space in the Twentieth-Century Urban West

Authors

Stefani Evans, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Keywords

African Americans -- Civil rights; African Americans -- Migrations; Ethnic relations -- Research; Minorities; West (U.S.)

Disciplines

African American Studies | Political History | Regional Sociology | Social History | United States History

Abstract

African Americans who migrated to western cities in the twentieth century encountered a polyglot mix of Euro Americans, Asians, Latinos, and Native Americans. Diverse western populations dictated that western racial contests over space and power would evolve differently from those in the North or the South. This paper examines the discourse on white, Latino and African American racial landscapes in western cities through themes of migration, community formation, and white stereotypes and community responses to those stereotypes in seven key monographs and two articles published between 1993 and 2005.

Recommended Citation

Evans, Stefani (2011) "Migration, Community, and Stereotype: Shaping Racial Space in the Twentieth-Century Urban West," Psi Sigma Siren: Vol. 7: Iss. 1, Article 5.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/psi_sigma_siren/vol7/iss1/5