A "Mulatto Escape Hatch" in the United States? Examining Evidence of Racial and Social Mobility During the Jim Crow Era

Demography

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1921-1942

  Saperstein, Aliya ^a   Gullickson, Aaron ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Occupational mobility; Race; Racial boundaries; Stratification; Survey measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884787155     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-013-0210-8     Document Type: Article

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