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Race and agriculture during the assimilation era: Evidence from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Autor:
Matthew Gregg, Melinda C. Miller
Publikováno v:
Demographic Research, Vol 46, p 37 (2022)
Background: The role of race within tribal communities is a contentious topic, and some of this acrimony emerged from 19th-century Indian policies rooted in scientific racism. There has been relatively little written on the role of intermarriage with
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https://doaj.org/article/0be9ca33ad5a4967bf41646d25e5d53d
Autor:
Melinda C. Miller
Publikováno v:
The Review of Economics and Statistics. 102:381-394
This paper identifies an exogenous variation in post–Civil War policy to examine the effect of land reform on racial inequality. The Cherokee Nation, located in what is now Oklahoma, permitted slavery and joined the Confederacy in 1861. During post
Autor:
Melinda C. Miller
Publikováno v:
Explorations in Economic History. 61:119-123
Economists have increasingly turned to height data to gain insight into a population’s standard of living. Because height measures are used when other data is unavailable, testing their reliability can be difficult, and concerns over sample selecti
Autor:
Melinda C. Miller
Publikováno v:
Demography. 55(5)
This study introduces a new sample that links people and families across 1860, 1880, and 1900 census data to explore the intergenerational impact of slavery on black families in the United States. Slaveholding—the number of slaves owned by a single
Autor:
Melinda C. Miller
Publikováno v:
American Economic Review. 101:371-76
Could racial wealth inequality have been reduced if freed slaves had been granted land following the Civil War? This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous variation in policies of the Cherokee Nation and southern United States to identify the impact o
Autor:
Melinda C. Miller
Publikováno v:
Journal of Southern History. 82:459-460
Autor:
Melinda C. Miller
Publikováno v:
History: Reviews of New Books. 43:24-24