Data and Code for: Black Land Loss: 1920–1997

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Dania V. Francis, University of Massachusetts Boston; Darrick Hamilton, Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy, The New School; Thomas W. Mitchell, Texas A&M University School of Law; Nathan A. Rosenberg, Harvard University; Bryce Wilson Stucki, Independent Researcher

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Francis, Dania V., Hamilton, Darrick, Mitchell, Thomas W., Rosenberg, Nathan A., and Stucki, Bryce Wilson. Data and Code for: Black Land Loss: 1920–1997. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-04-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/E167801V1

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Black agricultural land ownership was at a peak just after the turn of the twentieth century; however, there was a nearly 90 percent decline in ownership from 1910 to 1997. In this paper, we use US Census of Agriculture data to estimate that the present, compounded value of the Black land loss from 1920 to 1997 is roughly $326 billion.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms economic history; racism; agricultural land
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      B55 Social Economics
      N52 Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
      Q15 Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1910 – 2020
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) census/enumeration data; program source code


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