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Book Review



The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. By James N. Gregory. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xvi, 446 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2983-8. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5651-7.)

Over twenty million black and white Americans migrated out of the American South between 1900 and 1960, marching northward and westward in two parallel, yet distinct migrations that forever altered the political, cultural, religious, and socioeconomic fabric of the United States. The historian James N. Gregory analyzes and contextualizes those symbiotic migrations in his illuminating and timely (not to mention conceptually original) new book, The Southern Diaspora. . . .

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