References

Here is a list of references for those interested in researching heir property and land loss issues further:

Browne, R. S. 1973. Only Six Million Acres: The Decline of Black Owned Land in the Rural South. New York: Black Economic Research Center.

Chandler, April B. 2005. "'The Loss in My Bones': Protecting African American Heirs' Property with the Public Use Doctrine." William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 14:387-414.

Craig-Taylor, P. 2000. "Through a Colored Looking Glass: A View of Judicial Partition, Family Land Loss, and Rule Setting." Washington University Law Quarterly 78:737.

Dagan, H., and M. A. Heller. 2001. "The Liberal Commons." Yale Law Journal 110(4):549-623.

Deaton, B. J. 2005. "Land 'in Heirs': Building a Hypothesis Concerning Tenancy in Common and the Persistence of Poverty in Central Appalachia." Journal of Appalachian Studies 11(1&2):83-94.

Deaton, B. J., J. Baxter, and C. S. Bratt. 2009. "Examining the Consequences and Character of 'Heir Property'." Ecological Economics 68:2344-53.

Dyer, J. F. 2007. "Heir Property: Legal and Cultural Dimensions of Collective Landownership." Bulletin 667. Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University.

Gilbert, J., G. Sharp, and M. S. Felin. 2002. "The Loss and Persistence of Black-Owned Farms and Farmland: A Review of the Research Literature and Its Implications." Southern Rural Sociology 18:1-30.

Gilbert, J., and G. Sharp. 2001. "Fractionated Heir Property: A Comparison of Land Inheritance Problems among Native Americans and African Americans." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Albuquerque, NM, August 2001.

Graber, C. S. 1978. "Cloud on the Title: A Blight Hits Black Farmers." The Nation, March 11, 269-272.

Graber, C. S. 1978. "Heirs Property: The Problems and Possible Solutions." Clearinghouse Review 273-84.

Kelley, C. 1985. "Stemming the Loss of Black Owned Farmland Through Partition Action - A Partial Solution." Arkansas Law Notes 35-41.

Lewan, T. and Barclay, D. 2001. "Torn from the Land." Associated Press, December 2, 2001.

McDougall, H. A. 1980. "Black Landowners Beware: A Proposal for Statutory Reform." New York University Review of Law and Social Change 9:127-61.

McGee, L. and R. Boone, eds. 1979. The Black Rural Landowner – Endangered Species: Social, Political, and Economic Implications. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

McIver, L. 2003. "Blacks Driven and Cheated Out of Their Land." The Black Collegian 33:100-101.

Mitchell, T. W. 2001. "From Reconstruction to Deconstruction: Undermining Black Landownership, Political Independence, and Community through Partition Sales of Tenancies in Common." Northwestern University Law Review 95(2):505-80.

Mitchell, T. W. 2005. "Destabilizing the Normalization of Rural Black Land Loss: A Critical Role for Legal Empiricism." 2005 Wisconsin Law Review 557.

Pearce, H. A. 1973. "Heirs' Property: The Problem, Pitfalls, and Possible Solutions." South Carolina Law Review 25(1):151-67.

Rivers, F. R. 2006. "Restoring the Bundle of Rights: Preserving Heirs' Property in Coastal South Carolina." Article presented at the American Bar Association's 17th Annual Estate Planning Symposium, San Diego, CA. Available at http://www.vermontlaw.edu/emplibrary/faithpropertypreservationextract.pdf.

Rivers, F. R. 2007. "The Public Trust Debate: Implications for Heirs' Property Along the Gullah Coast." Southeastern Environmental Law Journal. Available at http://works.bepress.com/faith_rivers/3.

Schulman, M. D., P. Garrett, R. Luginbuhl, and J. Greene. 1985. "Problems of Landownership and Inheritance Among Black Smallholders." Agriculture and Human Values 2(3):40-44.

Tinubu, G. B. and J. C. Hite. 1978. "Intestate Holding of Rural Land in South Carolina: Empirical Evaluation of the Dimensions of the Heirs Property Problem." Bulletin SB613. South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Clemson University.

Zabawa, R. 1991. "The Black Farmer and Land in South-Central Alabama: Strategies to Preserve a Scarce Resource." Human Ecology 19:61-81.

Zabawa, R., A. Siaway, and N. Baharanyi. 1990. "The Decline of Black Farmers and Strategies for Survival." Southern Rural Sociology 7:106-21.

Zabawa, R. and N. Baharanyi. 1992. "Estate Planning Strategies and the Continuing Phenomenon of Black-Owned Landloss." Rural Sociologist 12(3):13-23.

Last Updated: Jun. 22, 2011