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A Demographic Approach To Race And Ethnicity In Metropolitan And Non-Metropolitan Regions Of Arkansas, 1990 And 1999, Todd W. Hodgson, Frank L. Farmer, Wayne P. Miller, Donald D. Voth Feb 2001

A Demographic Approach To Race And Ethnicity In Metropolitan And Non-Metropolitan Regions Of Arkansas, 1990 And 1999, Todd W. Hodgson, Frank L. Farmer, Wayne P. Miller, Donald D. Voth

Research Reports and Research Bulletins

This manuscript provides an empirical portrait of emergent trends in the growth, distribution, and racial and ethnic composition of Arkansas’ resident population. Particular attention is given to variation in the racial and ethnic composition of the estimated population among different regions of the state. During the 1990’s, racial and ethnic diversity increased statewide due in large part to Hispanic population growth in all regions. Black population growth was greatest in central Arkansas while Asian and Native American population growth increased most rapidly in the northwest metropolitan regions of the state. Overall, both metropolitan and non-metropolitan Arkansas communities have a more …


Dorothy West: The Living Is Easy, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: The Living Is Easy, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Dorothy West: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, Reminiscences, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, Reminiscences, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Gwendolyn Brooks: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd

A Yęmisi Jimoh

Article on The Wedding by Dorothy West.


Epic, The Oral Community, And The Memory Of Emancipation In Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, Patrice Rankine Jan 2001

Epic, The Oral Community, And The Memory Of Emancipation In Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth, Patrice Rankine

Classical Studies Faculty Publications

As the recently published epistolary collection reveals, Ralph Ellison was an unabashed Americanist, for better and for worse. Ellison's faith in American identity and the democratic process, which is evident at the end of Invisible Man in the protagonist's determination to "affirm the principle on which the country was built [and not the men who did the violence]" (574), is again manifest in the posthumous novel, Juneteenth. According to John F. Callahan, Ellison's litearary executor, the novel celebrates "the indivisibility of the American experience" (Juneteeth xvi). James Alan McPherson (the African-American writer to whom Ellison showed a portion …