We speak with Vasiliki Fouka about the Great Migration, civil rights and immigration. Vasiliki Fouka is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She received her PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research interests are in cultural economics, economic history and political economy. She has studied immigrant assimilation, the dynamics of ethnic identity, and the formation of attitudes towards out-groups, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
African American family from the rural South arriving in Chicago, 1922.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library (1168439)