White people -- Economic conditions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works of a sociological nature that discuss white people as an element in the population, especially in countries where they are a minority. Works of an anthropological nature focusing on the physical features that characterize Caucasians and distinguish them from other races of mankind are entered under Caucasian race.
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Small Expectations: Adjustment to Economic Status in the Deep South lecture program by Allison Davis
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS977f
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a program for a lecture titled “Small Expectations: Adjustment to Economic Status in the Deep South,” which Allison Davis delivered at the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Twenty-Ninth Annual Conclave at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. In the lecture, he spoke about the economic conditions and the intersection of race and class in rural Natchez, Mississippi. He also applies these findings to the South more broadly. Specifically, Davis compared the living standards...
Dates:
1940 December 29