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Cosmopolitanism as Concealment: The Dynamo of Dixie during Jim Crow, 1890–1968
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Courtney Elizabeth Knapp
Published: 07 May 2018
... housing Works Progress Administration WPA Desegregation racial Golden Gateway Urban Renewal Project Urban renewal Integration racial Chattanooga Police Department Chattanooga Times Mapp James Racial segregation Jim crow Racial segregation Urban development Economic development City planning...
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Defying Racist Stereotypes: The Big Nine and Lincoln Park as Sites of Diasporic Cosmopolitanism
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Courtney Elizabeth Knapp
Published: 07 May 2018
... Lincoln Park Public space planning Chicago Defender Chattanooga Interracial Committee Reconciliation Works Progress Administration WPA Racial segregation Southern Negro League of professional baseball Howard School Commercial and economic development Black or African American placemaking Public...
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Published: 24 May 2022
...This chapter looks at changing fortunes of surf shops in the Outer Banks to analyze the tension between coastal economic development that comes with increased tourism and environmental conservation that seeks to protect coastal ecosystems. A subtheme of the chapter relates to surf forecasting...
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Washington’s Atlas District: Inequality, Cultural Vibrancy, and the New Regime of Diversity
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Brandi Thompson Summers
Published: 25 November 2019
... culture Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development DMPED gentrification H Street Northeast McCann Eugene social body Black streetcar blackness Hurricane Katrina New Orleans Louisiana Weber Brenda Zukin Sharon black aesthetic emplacement Change Inc devaluation Model Cities Commission...
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Published: 19 December 2011
..., but many of the same problems and challenges remain. On topics that range from education and a globally competitive workforce to economic development and entrepreneurship, each contributor, from policy practitioner to university chancellor, offers visions of a path toward economic prosperity for all North...
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Economic Development Is No Longer Optional
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Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein
Published: 10 September 2018
...The prosperity of regional economies is inescapably linked to the health of their colleges and universities. Economic development has evolved from a by-product of higher education to a public expectation. Schools both big and small have emerged as crucial economic engines often taking the place...
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Development over Democracy
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John Lewis Gaddis
Published: 03 September 2007
... so that he could institute crucial reforms necessary for economic development. After discussing American efforts to push the military junta away from military rule and economic nationalism toward political and economic liberalization, the chapter looks at the conflict between Washington and the Park...
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Published: 03 October 2016
... on Poverty Agricultural workers Chicago Ill Congress of Racial Equality CORE Cunningham Ezra Detroit Mich Federal government Mississippi Out migration Racism Sachs Nanette Small farmers Agriculture Department of Agriculture USDA Economic development initiatives Farmers Home Administration FmHA...
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Published: 03 October 2016
... Democrat Taxes Watson W C Agnew Spiro American Independent Party Humphrey Hubert Minneapolis Minn U S Treasury Congressional Black Caucus Delta Ministry Economic development initiatives National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP Stennis John Unemployment Wilson Woodrow...
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To Build Something, Where They Are: The Federation of Southern Cooperatives and Rural Economic Development
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Greta de Jong
Published: 03 October 2016
...This chapter examines the efforts of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives to encourage cooperative enterprises and other economic development initiatives in rural southern communities. The services it provided to cooperatives ensured the survival of many black-owned businesses and encouraged...
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Published: 16 September 2019
...This chapter’s focus on attitudes toward development contributes to new assessments of the causes of the Sino-Indian border war of 1962, Sino-Indian relations in general, and the Sino-Soviet split. The chapter examines Nehru’s economic development model and provides insight on his perspective...
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Passing into Economic Darkness
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Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Published: 27 May 2019
... Valdés Roig Luis nutrition Taboadela José Zapata Pascual Cárdenas Armando Cuba News food shortages Higiene La hunger Balzán Celestino Cartañá Estanslao Menocal Mario G scarcity of food Marino Perez Luis sugar exports of Cuba rice economic recovery Post-World War I economic development...
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Published online: 18 September 2014
Published in print: 19 May 2014
... the participation of all citizens in political and economic development....
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Published: 15 November 2022
... in Indochina and state-building in the US-allied western Pacific. R&R destination Taipei aimed to provide American personnel with hygienic, supposedly morale-boosting access to local women’s bodies through carefully regulated prostitution while promoting capitalist economic development and assuaging...
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Years of Africa, 1960–1966
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James H. Meriwether
Published: 09 November 2021
... perspective, endlessly uplifting or endlessly worrisome. The Kennedy administration and then the Johnson administration saw African countries as a rising force and, witnessing fundamental changes across the continent, at times made changes in policy as well as increased education and economic development...
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The Beneficiaries of Beef
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Robert G. Williams
Published: 30 May 1986
...This chapter presents the beef boom as a prime example of how the private sector can bring about economic development when the government removes obstacles to trade and investment. The favorable access to the protected U.S. beef market pumped excess profits into Central America's traditional beef...
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Institution Building the Military
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John Lewis Gaddis
Published: 03 September 2007
... military officers in their ability to lead the country in general and to help in economic development in particular. Republic of Korea Army Hodge John Reed U S Army Military Government in Korea USAMGIK Chǒng Ilgwǒn Constabulary Military English Language School Paek Namgwǒn Paek Sǒnyǒp Plan Bamboo...
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Engaging South Korean Intellectuals
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John Lewis Gaddis
Published: 03 September 2007
...This chapter examines how the United States managed its relationship with South Korea's intellectuals, a group that it considered most vital to economic development and the future of democracy in the country. It looks at how modernization became an important basis for dialogue between the state...
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Are We Still What We Ate?
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Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra
Published: 14 October 2013
...From 1960 to the start of the new millennium, a change in Puerto Rico's economic development radically changed the available foodstuff, as well as the ways in which they were acquired and prepared. This chapter discusses key dimensions of food habits and practices in present-day Puerto Rico...
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Capital Reinvestment: Riot, Renewal, and the Rise of a Black Ghetto
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Brandi Thompson Summers
Published: 25 November 2019
... Connection shopping center placemaking business Fantles drugstore festival H Street H Street Festival Mega Foods supermarket National Bank of Washington Barrows Bill H Street Community Development Corporation Saleem Anwar revitalization Urban renewal Urban planning Riots Economic development...