Long Time Coming
Subtitle: Racial Inequality in the Nonmetropolitan South, 1940-1990 (Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society)
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780813389325
Subjects: Ethnography; Racism & racial discrimination; Rural communities; Social research & statistics; Work & labour; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; Science/Mathematics; Race And Ethnic Relations; U.S. Local History - Southern States; Sociology; Southern States; USA; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Sociology - General; Economic conditions; African Americans; Equality; Sociology, Rural; Statistics
Description: The authors investigate trends in racial inequality in occupational attainment in rural areas of the South since 1940. Drawing on data from the six censuses spanning the last five decades, they examine how inequality varies across local areas and how it has changed over time in different local areas. While modest reductions in inequality have been observed in recent decades, the authors document that racial inequality in rural areas of the South persists at very high levels to the present day.

Guided by structural-demographic theory, the authors investigate the connections between inequality and important changes taking place in the economic and social structures of rural communities of the South. They conclude that inequality is linked, sometimes in unexpected ways, with economic growth, urbanization and the decline of agricultural employment, the movement of women into the labor force, increasing minority educational attainment, and changes in racial demography.