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Gography; Minority Groups DOCUMENT RESUME ED 134 670 UD 016 781 AUTHOR Jakle, John A. TITLE Ethnic and Racial Minorities in NorthAmerica: A Selected Bibliography of the Geographical Literature. INSTITUTION Council of Planning Librarians, Monticello,Ill. PUB DATE Sep 73 NOTE 73p.; Council of Planning LibrariansExchange Bibliography #459-460 ($7.00) EDRS PRICE MF-$9.83 HC-$3.50 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Bibliographies; Demography; *Ethnic Groups; *Geographic Distribution; *GeographicLocation; *Gography; Minority Groups ABSTRACT Forty-six ethnic and/or racial minorities are represented in this bibliography on thegeographical literature of ethnic and racial minorities in NorthAmerica. The bibliography is an initial step toward recognition of whatgeographers and other spatially-oriented social scientists and plannershave discovered about the place experience of ethnicand racial minorities in North America. It is organized according tominority groups on the assumption that distinctive culturesprecipitate distinctive place experiences. Only where a large number ofminority groups have"been treated for a specific place arereferences organized according to geographical location (i.e. Southern White,Canada, U.S. General, U.S. Northeast, U.S. Southeastand U.S. West.) Among the minoritY groups included'are the more numerousAfro-Americans, Amerindians, Chinese, Japanese, Italians, and PuertoRicans, and also, less known gorups such as the Basque,Dutch, Finnish, Gypsy, Swiss, Mormon,and Lebanese.(Author/AM) *********************************************************************** Documents acquired by ERICinclude many informal unpublished * materials not available fromother sources. ERIC makes every effort * * to obtain the best copyavailable. Nevertheless, items of marginal * reproducibility are oftenencountered and this affects thequalitY * of the microfiche andhardcopy reproductions ERIC makesavailable * via the ERIC Document ReproductionService (EDRS): EDRS is not * responsible for the quality ofthe original document. Reproductions* * supplied ;1y EDRS are the best that canbe made from the original. r-- Council of PlanningLibrarians EXCHANGE BIBLIOGRAPHY 459 and September 1973 460 ETHNIC AND RACIALMINORITIES IN NORTH AMERICA: A Selected Bibliography of theGeographical Literature John A. Jakle, Associatt. Professor ofGeo raphy University ofIllinois, Champaign-Urbana With the assistance of Cynthia A.Jakle r. Pour .F pir;hts, ()( F rrO., I 'N'4 /Ors. Mary Vance, EditGr Post Office Box 229 Monticello, Illinois 61856 COUNCIL OF PLANNINGLIBRARIANS Exchange Bibliography 0459-116o A SELECTED ETHNIC AND RACIAL HINORITTESIN NORTH AMERICA: HELIOGRAPHY OF THE GECGRAPHICALLITERATURE' by John A. Jakle Associate PrOfessor.ofGeography University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Illinois With the asdistance ofCynthia A.-Jakle minorities A change of attitudetoward ethnic and racial States.Whereas seems to have,occurredin Canada and the United from public minority groups were onceignored and even hidden today they view for their deviating.fromthe social mainstream, pride are valued for theirdistinctiveness. Indeed, considerable where an is now attached to one'sminority status particularly recently increase in political power andeconomic privilege has Korth accrued th ough group action.Farwell over a century Native- America has been viewed ae asocial 'helting pot" where Americans, Europeans, Africans,and Asians blended to form a work, distinctively "American" society. Such a proCess may be at doubt but it is much slower thanantiApatedso slow that some that complete acculturationwill ever be accomplished. The spatial isolation ofminority peoples has contributed substantially to preserving ethnicand racial vr.,riety in in their awn "ghettos" American life.Groups have been segregated communities also or have beenmixed'in cosmopolitan minority se ':3d. geographically fromAmerica's cultural mainstream. rapidly When spatially diffused,minority groups have been more 3 2. 01'L Exchange Bibliography#459-460 110 and cpmpletelyabiOrbed into that mainstream except, of course, where severe caste systems haveoperated as a counter-force. The geography of ethnic andracial minorities would seea to hold an important part of the answer asto how the acculturation process operates. Beyond questions of acculturation,however, lie more immediate communities to help us concerns.What can me learn from minority make human habitats more liveable? Howdo minority groups symbolize their identity in landscape?. How dothey organize their communities spatially? How are these communitiesdistributed in geographical space relative to prevailing land usesland rents, levels of accessibility, Modes of transportation,employment opportunities, political jurisdictions., etc.?Hotr does a sense of group belonging anchor itself in the lancoe?Do territorialfe4ings rooted in ethnii and racial difference,make for more or less satisfactory places? This bibliography is an initial step to seewhat geographers and other spatially-oriented socialscientists and planners have \ discovered about the place experiences of ethnicand racial minorities in North America. 'Thus thebibliography has been organized according to minority g:oup on theassumption that distinctive cultures precipitate distinctiveplace experiences. Only where a large number of minoritygroup6 have been treated for a specific place arereferences organized according to geographical location. 4 3 CPL Exchange Bibliography#459-460 The fdllowing minorities arerepresented: Afro-American- ,Italian- Amerindian- Japanese- Armenian- Jewish- Basque- Korean- Chinese- Lithuahian- Mexican- Cuban- cr:2 Czech- Mixed Blood- . Danish- Norman - Dutch- Norwegian- Eskimo- Polish- . Finnish- Portuguese- -French Acadian and Cajun- Puerto Rican- French Canadian- Russian- German- Scots-Irish- German-(Amish and Mennonite) Southern White- Greek- - Spanish- Gypsie- Swedish- Hawaiian7 Swiss- Hungarian- Syrian - Icelandic- Ukrainian- Indian- Welsh- Irish- Yugoslav- CPL Exchange-BibliographY #459-460 AFRO-AMERICAN Abudu, Margaret j.G., WalterJ.RaineStephen L. Burbeck, and Keith K. Davison. 'Black ghetto Violence: a case study inquiry into the sPatial pattern ,of fourLos Angeles riot event-types," Social Problems, 19, 1972,408-427. Adams, John S. "The geography of riots and civildisorders in the 19601s," Econamic Geography,67, 1972, 24-42. Adams, John S., Ralph Sanders, and RobertHodgart. "Urban structure and the location of stress inghettos," Earth and Mineral Sciences, 38, 1969, 29-32. Adamson, John C. 'The relationship between the Commutingproblem and job opprrtunities for the Negroes in theCity of Terre Haute, Indiana," unpublished M.A. Thesis,Indiana University, 1972. Adjel-Barwuah, Earfuor. "Socio-economic regions in the. Louisville ghetto," unpUblished Ph.D. Dissertation, IndianaUniversity, 1972. Adjel-Baiwuah and Harold PI. Rose. "Some comparative aspects of the Nest African congo and the Black'Americanghetto," in Harold Rose (ed.), Geography of the Ghetto,DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, Perspectivesin Geography, 2, 1972, 257-273. Anderson, Marc B. "Racial discrimination in Detroit: a spatial analysis of racism," unpublished M.A. Thesis,Nayne State . University, 1969.. Balmer, Gary L. "A spatial analysis of racially mixed voting behavior," unpublished M.A. Thesis, Indiana Universityof Pennsylvania, 1970. Bell, W., and E. M. Willis. "The-segregation of Negroes in of Social . American cities: a comparative analysis," Journal and Economic Studies, 6, 1957, 59-75. Berry, Brian J.L. "The geography of the United) States in the year 2000," Institute of British Geographers, Transactions,No. 51, 1970, 21-53. Birdsall, Stephen. "Introduction to research on black America: prospects and review," Southeastern Geographer, 1971,85-89. Bitterling, Richard. ,Binnenwanderung und verstadterung der neger in den Vereinigten Staaten; einestatistiche skizze," Georjsphischer Anzeiger, 33, 1932, 208-210.. 4 S. CPL4xchange Bibliography 4459-46T Blumberg, Leonard and MichaelLalli. :11Little ghettoes: A study of'Negroes in the suburbs," Phylon,27, 1966, 117-131. and the Blumberg, Leonard. N3egregated housing, marginal location, crisis of confidence," Phylon,25, 19642 321-330. Bogardus, Emory S. "Racial reactions byregions,"Soci2122.221 Social Research, 43, 1959,286-290. Bogue, Donald J.-"The geography of recent populationtrnnds in the United States," AnnalsAssociation of.American Geo ra hers 44, 1954, 124-134. ( 9 Brandon, Donald G. "Migration of Negroes in the U.S.,19101947," .unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, ColumbiaUniversity, 1949. Breitbart, Myrna. "Advocacy in planning and geography," Antipode, A Radical Journal ofGeograTihy, 4, 1972, 64-68. Broude Jeffrey E. "A survey of 1960 NegrooccupationalpAtterns in Standard Metropolitan,StatisticalAreas by region, total population, and Percentage Negro,"unpublished M.A. Thesis, University.of California, LossAngeles,1971. the role of the real Brown, 1lliam H., Jr. -"Access to housing: estate industry," iicGecai_2ahyEconorr,48, 1972, 66-78. Bron, William H., Jr. "Class aspects of residentialdevelopment and choice in the Oakland blackcommunity," unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Univeraity of California,Berkeley, 1970. Brunn, Stanley, Wayne L. Hoffman, andGe1,41d H. Romsa. "Some spatial considerations of.the Flintppenhousing referendum," Proceedings, Association of AmericanGeographers, 1, 1969, Bryant, Nathaniel H. ."Blacl. migration,and the settlement ofthe M.A. Thesis, University ' Puget Sound Country," unpublished ofUashinton,1972. Buford, Carolyn B. "The
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