Author: John David Smith
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s
Keywords: segregation, southern
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 2001-09-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0312257384
ISBN-13: 9780312257385

When did southern segregation begin? People often assume that segregation was a natural outcome of Reconstruction. In fact, scholars cannot agree on which events at the end of the nineteenth century mark the beginning of formalized Jim Crow. The 6 selections in this volume address the question of segregation’s origins and, amid the debate over when segregation began, also engage the issues of where, why, and how it became the norm for relations between black and white southerners. Concentrating on various issues—segregation’s antebellum antecedents, degrees of fluidity of racial interac

Authors:Kathreen Ruckstuhl, Peter Neuhaus,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: vertebrates, segregation, sexual
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2006-01-23
List price: $163.00
ISBN-10: 0521835224
ISBN-13: 9780521835220

An understanding of sexual segregation is important in the explanation of life history and social preference, population dynamics and the conservation of rare species. This book explores the reasons why this behaviour has evolved and what factors contribute to it. Males and females of many species can, and do, live separately for long periods of time. This sexual segregation is widespread and can be on social, spatial or habitat scales.

Author: Jude Browne
Publisher: Policy Press
Keywords: labour, market, modern, inequality, segregation, sex
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1861345992
ISBN-13: 9781861345998

This book presents a novel interpretation of the nature, causes and consequences of sex inequality in the modern labour market. Employing a sophisticated new theoretical framework, and drawing on original fieldwork, the book develops a subtle account of the phenomenon of sex segregation and offers a major challenge to existing approaches. "Sex Segregation and Inequality in the Modern Labour Market": offers an unusually comprehensive account of sex segregation; draws on the latest methodological innovations to provide an original empirical analysis of sex segregation using both quantitative and

Author: Jerry Jacobs
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: women, careers, segregation, sex, doors, revolving
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1989-04-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0804714894
ISBN-13: 9780804714891

Author: Paul Cooper
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: integration, segregation, students, disaffected, schools, effective
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1993-01-22
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 041506483X
ISBN-13: 9780415064835

Authors:Douglas Massey, Nancy Denton,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: underclass, making, segregation, apartheid, american
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1998-07-15
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 0674018214
ISBN-13: 9780674018211

This powerful and disturbing book links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. "A major contribution to our study of both racism and poverty."--Washington Post Book World.

Author: Julia Kirk Blackwelder
Publisher: TAMU Pre
Keywords: beauty, training, segregation, american, african, jim, crow, styling
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-04-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1585442445
ISBN-13: 9781585442447

Julia Kirk Blackwelder focuses on the beauty education industry in racially segregated communities from World War I to the 1960s. She explores the industry as a locus of black entrepreneurial effort and aspiration and describes the work of two key players resisting racial prejudice.