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The Delmar Divide refers to Delmar Boulevard as a socioeconomic and racial dividing line in St. Louis, Missouri. The term was popularized outside Greater St. Louis by a four-minute documentary from the BBC. [1] Delmar Blvd. is an east–west street with its western terminus in the municipality of Olivette, Missouri extending into the City of St ...
The controversy of the Sojourner Truth project continued into 1944 with the proposal of a 300-unit housing expansion. However, the DHC rejected the proposal out of belief that it "would be inviting a major controversy while gaining only a very small percentage of the houses needed to solve the immediate housing problem". [ 10 ]
Horace Orlando Patterson OM (born 5 June 1940) is a Jamaican-American historian and sociologist known for his work on the history of race and slavery in the United States and Jamaica, as well as the sociology of development. He is currently the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. [1]
Chris Goode, a former Kansas City Parks and Recreation commissioner, wants to rename Troost Avenue, one of the city’s best-known streets, mostly because it served as a racial dividing line ...
May 23—A road race will avoid construction downtown this fall in its second year by shifting to a new course through the University District. The Boulevard Race benefiting the Community Cancer ...
Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community is a 2015 social science book by Riché J. Daniel Barnes, Ph.D., a sociocultural anthropologist. It is part of the Families in Focus series from Rutgers University Press and was first published in December 2015.
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Bonilla-Silva is known for researching the role of race in public life. [8] In 2003, he published the book Racism Without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States , which discusses his view that systemic racism is a major problem in the United States, despite the fact that Americans do not do or ...