On the Political Aspects of Unemployment: The Case of Election Results

Unemployment is related to economic, political and social aspects. One of the least analysed political aspects is the relationship that, from a partisan or ideological perspective, should exist between the election results and the aging level of the voters, which is to be reflected in different electoral costs of unemployment. This chapter updates previous work on the subject, using a spatial econometrics methodology to estimate the relationship between the levels of aging and the election results that were obtained in the most recent elections that took place in Portugal, i.e. the October 2015 legislative elections. The results confirm the hypothesis that the level of unemployment involves a higher (resp. lower) electoral cost the less (resp. more) aged is the electorate.

‘DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HIS RACE’: BLACK OFFICEHOLDERS AND THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF FREEDOM IN WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, 1865-1877

This dissertation examines black officeholding in Wilmington, North Carolina, from emancipation in 1865 through 1876, when Democrats gained control of the state government and brought Reconstruction to an end. It considers the struggle for black office holding in the city, the black men who held office, the dynamic political culture of which they were a part, and their significance in the day-to-day lives of their constituents. Once they were enfranchised, black Wilmingtonians, who constituted a majority of the city’s population, used their voting leverage to negotiate the election of black men to public office. They did so by using Republican factionalism or what the dissertation argues was an alternative partisanship. Ultimately, it was not factional divisions, but voter suppression, gerrymandering, and constitutional revisions that made local government appointive rather than elective, Democrats at the state level chipped away at the political gains black Wilmingtonians had made.

From an American Plantation to Interwar Poland: How Uncle Remus Became Bam-Bo the Negro

The article opens with the introduction of Joel Chandler Harris and his literary output. As one of “local colourists,” Harris depicted American plantation life in 19th-century Georgia and included many cultural as well as folk elements in his works. The following analysis of his stories about Uncle Remus focuses on (1) the levels of narration; (2) the linguistic complexity of the text (the stories abound in slang and dialectal expressions); (3) the form; and (4) the folklore value. These four aspects guide the discussion of the only Polish translation of the Uncle Remus stories. Prepared by Wladyslawa Wielinska in 1929, it was addressed to children. Therefore, the article aims to determine the profile of the translation as a children’s book, to consider it in relation to the skopos of the source text and to establish the extent to which it preserved the peculiar character of the Uncle Remus stories.

Eighty-seven pertinent paragraphs on the Negro in America /

Reproduction of typewritten copy.

The Negro : his rights and wrongs, the forces for him and against him /

"Sermons ... delivered in the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., November 20th and 27th, and December 4th and 11th. They are published by request"--p. [3].

The Negro in America,

"For further reading": p. 32.

The Negro.

Not in J.P. Danky's African-American newspapers and periodicals, a national bibliography.

The Negro problem /

Page [34] is blank.

The Negro as a soldier /

Limited ed. of 250 copies.

The Negro leadership class.

Includes bibliography.

Books about the Negro for children : the James Weldon Johnson collection, the New York Public Library /

"Reprinted from America [i.e. American] Unity, issued by the Council Against Intolerance in America, October, 1944."--p. [8]

The negro in our history,

Mode of access: Internet.

The Negro wage earner,

Bibliography: p. [369]-380.

A statement from Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia.

Cover title.