East Austin : a socio-historical view of a segregated community

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dc.contributor.advisorNot available
dc.creatorJackson, Robena Estelle
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-23T17:11:29Z
dc.date.available2019-10-23T17:11:29Z
dc.date.issued1979
dc.descriptionThe prevalence of segregation in Austin, Texas, kindled my personal interest in the subject. While a student in the city, I was amazed at the high degree of segregation in Austin. With the exception of Blacks recruited from other geographic areas for positions at the state university and the small number of professionals working in state government, most Blacks live in one section of the city. In other words, the native Black population of Austin is isolated in basically one community. The segregation of Black Austinites into a single community evoked my curiosity. How did the Blacks in Austin come to live in one segregated neighborhood? Pockets of segregated Black communities are common in American cities but, in Austin, Blacks are isolated on a specific side of town. After questioning long-time residents of the city, I found that in the early history of Austin, Black communities were located on all sides of the city. If these communities had continued to prosper, one would expect to find thriving Black communities in most sections of the city. This assumption, however, does not prove true and this study attempts to uncover the reasons for its fallacy
dc.description.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.format.mediumelectronicen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/76768
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/3857
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en_US
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subject.lcshAfrican Americans--Segregation--Texas--Austin
dc.subject.lcshSegregation--Texas--Austin
dc.titleEast Austin : a socio-historical view of a segregated communityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
thesis.degree.departmentSociologyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSociologyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at Austinen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen_US

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