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Book Review

Canada and the United States

James N. Gregory. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 446. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95.
Migrations have consequences. Just ask the American Indians. Until now, historians have told only part of the story of the greatest migration in twentieth-century America: the movement of 28 million black and white southerners to the North and West—primarily midwestern and northeastern cities, and California—from the early 1900s to the 1970s. One million Latinos (mainly Tejanos) also migrated during this period. By relating this story partially, historians have underestimated the migrations' transformative impact on America, its politics, religions, popular culture, and the configuration of its cities and suburbs.	1
As James M. Gregory demonstrates from a broad interdisciplinary array of sources, this massive transfer of population included many more southern whites (20 million) than blacks, and only by including white southerners as part of the Great Migrations can we begin to understand how this movement changed America for all time. Heretofore, the story known as the Great Migration was primarily a phenomenon of African Americans, mostly poor, rural, and downtrodden, moving to the cities of the North and West, where they remained, for the most part, poor and downtrodden. Including southern whites in the process, uncovering some new statistical data (the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, for example), and mining the sociological literature, Gregory has altered the perspective and interpretation of what now must be called the Great Migrations.	. . .

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