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Halter, Marilyn. "Cape Verdean-American Immigration and Patterns of Settlement, 1860-1940," Boston University, January 1986. Advisor: Sam Bass Warner, Jr. (8, 1, 11)

This dissertation is a descriptive history of Cape Verdean immigration to and settlement in Southeastern Massachusetts during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It covers 85% of the total United States immigration by Cape Verdeans, and is the first comprehensive study of this unique racial and ethnic group, the only major community of Afro-Americans to have voluntarily made the transatlantic voyage to this country. Using two complementary methodologies, quantitative analysis and oral history, this thesis examines the Cape Verdean-American experience within the framework of recent historical scholarship that compares the adaptation and social mobility patterns of native blacks and European immigrants during the process of large-scale urbanization and mass migration.