▪ Abstract During the twentieth century, African Americans participated in one of the most
significant demographic events in US history. Their “Great Migration” from the South to the …

The majority of Americans live and work in suburbs, but the social problems arising in these
communities are rarely studied by sociologists. Far more scholarly attention is devoted to …

Winner of the 2020 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social
Demography Honorable Mention for the 2020 Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the …

Abstract The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history
research not only because it was a prime example of large scale internal migration, but also …

Trends in concentrated neighborhood poverty in the United States have been volatile over
the past several decades. Using data from the 1980 to 2000 decennial census and the 2010 …

Hurricanes pose a continuing hazard to populations in coastal regions. This study estimates
the impact of hurricanes on population change in the years 1970–2005 in the US Gulf Coast …

Beginning with WEB Du Bois's The Philadelphia Negro and Ida B. Wells's Southern Horrors,
this review revisits and examines sociological research on urban Black Americans from the …

The goal of this study is to examine the extent to which population shifts over the post–Great
Migration period and divergent trends in segregation across regions contributed to the …

The theme of this volume is generational trends in language change, with an emphasis on
the Baby Boomer to Gen X transition as an important period of time. Many studies have …

Using samples of census data from the University of Minnesota Population Center's
“Integrated Public Use Microdata Series”(IPUMS), we describe trends in African‐American …