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Urban-Race Reading List
Elijah Anderson
February 7, 2013
Elijah Anderson, Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1990).
Elijah Anderson, Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1999).
Elijah Anderson, A Place on the Corner, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
Elijah Anderson, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life (New York:
W.W. Norton, 2011).
Digby Baltzell, Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class (New York:
Free Press, 1958).
Howard S. Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (New York: Free Press,
1973).
Herbert Blumer, “Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position,” The Pacific Sociological Review
1 (1) (1958).
Alfred Blumstein, “On the Racial Disproportion in the United States’ Prison Populations,” The
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 73 (3) (1982): 1259–1281.
Alfred Blumstein, “Racial Disproportionality of U.S. Prison Populations Revisited,” University
of Colorado Law Review 64 (3) (1993): 743–760.
Alfred Blumstein and Jacqueline Cohen, “A Theory of the Stability of Punishment,” The Journal
of Criminal Law and Criminology 64 (2) (1973): 198–207.
Lawrence D. Bobo and James R. Kluegel, “Opposition to Race-Targeting: Self-Interest
Stratification Ideology or Racial Attitudes,” American Sociological Review 58 (1993): 443–464.
Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson, “Racialized Mass Incarceration: Poverty, Prejudice,
and Punishment,” in Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century, ed. Hazel R. Markus and Paula
Moya (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010), 322–355.
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of
Racial Inequality in America, 2nd ed. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,
2006).
Philippe Bourgois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995).
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Theodore G. Chiricos and William D. Bales, “Unemployment and Punishment: An Empirical
Assessment,” Criminology 29 (4) (1991): 701–724.
Cathy Cohen, Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1999).
Stanley Cohen, Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment, and Classification (New York:
Polity Press, 1985).
Elliot Currie, “Missing Pieces: Notes on Crime, Poverty, and Social Policy,” Critical
Criminology 7 (1) (1996): 37–52.
Michael C. Dawson, Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics (Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994).
Mike Dear, “Los Angeles and the Chicago School: Invitation to a Debate,” City & Community 1
(1) (2002): 5–32.
St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern
City (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1945).
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1899).
Mitchell Duneier, Sidewalk (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999).
Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and
Low-Wage Work (New York: Russell Sage, 1997).
Claude Fischer, “Toward a Subcultural Theory of Urbanism,” American Journal of Sociology 80
(6) (1975): 1319–1341.
Cybelle Fox and Thomas A. Guglielmo, “Defining America’s Racial Boundaries: Blacks,
Mexicans, and European Immigrants, 1890–1945,” American Journal of Sociology 118 (2)
(September 2012): 327–379.
E. Franklin Frazier, Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class in the United States
(New York: Macmillan, 1957).
George Fredrickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African
History (New York: Oxford, 1982).
Charles Glaab and A. Theodore Brown, A History of Urban America, 2nd ed. (New York:
Macmillan, 1976).
Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (New York: Anchor Books, 1959).
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Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
1963).
Erving Goffman, Behavior in Public Places (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008).
Erving Goffman, Relations in Public (Piscataway, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2010).
Michael R. Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi, A General Theory of Crime (Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford University Press, 1990).
John Hagan, “Extra-Legal Attributes and Criminal Sentencing: An Assessment of a Sociological
Viewpoint,” Law and Society Review 8 (3) (1974): 357–383.
John Hagan and Bill McCarthy, Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Ulf Hannerz, Soulside: Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1969).
David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
(Oxford; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1989).
Everett C. Hughes, “Dilemmas and Contradictions of Status,” American Journal of Sociology 50
(5) (March 1945): 353–359.
Albert Hunter, Symbolic Communities: The Persistence and Change of Chicago’s Local
Communities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974).
John L. Jackson, Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Random House, 1981).
Philip Kasinitz, Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race (Ithaca, N.Y.:
Cornell University Press, 1992).
Philip Kasinitz et al., Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (New
York: Russell Sage Foundation; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008).
Michael Katz, The Undeserving Poor (New York: Pantheon Books, 1989).
Robin D.G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (New York:
Free Press, 1994).
Randall Kennedy, Race, Crime, and the Law (New York: Pantheon Books, 1997).
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Ryan D. King, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen, “Employment and Exile: U.S.
Criminal Deportations, 1908–2005,” American Journal of Sociology 117 (6) (May 2012): 1786–
1825.
Patrick A. Langan, “Racism on Trial: New Evidence to Explain the Racial Composition of
Prisons in the United States,” Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 76 (3) (1985): 666–683.
Elliot Liebow, Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men (Boston: Little, Brown,
1967).
John R. Logan and Harvey Molotch, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
John MacDonald and Robert J. Sampson, “The World in a City: Immigration and America’s
Changing Social Fabric,” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
641 (May 2012): 6–15.
Jay MacLeod, Ain’t No Makin’ It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income
Neighborhood (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995).
Carole Marks, “The Urban Underclass,” Annual Review of Sociology 17 (1991): 445–466.
Douglas S. Massey and Nancy Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and
the Making of the Underclass (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993).
Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Robert J. Sampson, and Stephen W. Raudenbush, “Neighborhood
Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and the Spatial Dynamics of Urban Violence,” Criminology 39
(3) (2001): 517–560.
Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
(Piscataway, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1995).
Anthony M. Orum, “The Urban Imagination of Sociologists: The Centrality of Place,”
Sociological Quarterly 39 (1) (1998): 1–10.
Gilbert Osofsky, Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto (New York: Harper & Row, 1963).
Devah Pager, MARKED: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Robert Park, “The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the City
Environment,” American Journal of Sociology 20 (5) (1915): 577–612.
Emilio A. Parrado, “Immigration Enforcement Policies, the Economic Recession, and the Size of
Local Mexican Immigrant Populations,” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science 641 (May 2012): 16–37.
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Mary Pattillo, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1999).
Mary Pattillo, Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Ruth D. Peterson and John Hagan, “Changing Conceptions of Race: Towards an Account of
Anomalous Findings of Sentencing Research,” American Sociological Review 49 (1) (1984): 56–
70.
Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren Krivo, “Macrostructural Analyses of Race, Ethnicity, and Violent
Crime: Recent Lessons and New Directions for Research,” Annual Review of Sociology 31
(2005): 331–356.
Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren Krivo, Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the
Racial-Spatial Divide (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2010).
Lee Rainwater, Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum (Chicago: Aldine
Publishing Company, 1970).
Jonathan Rieder, Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism (Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985).
Dina R. Rose and Todd R. Clear, “Incarceration, Social Control, and Crime: Implications for
Social Disorganization Theory,” Criminology 36 (3) (1998): 441–479.
Robert J. Sampson, “Urban Black Violence: The Effect of Male Joblessness and Family
Disruption,” American Journal of Sociology 93 (2) (1987): 348–382.
Robert J. Sampson and W. Byron Groves, “Community Structure and Crime: Testing SocialDisorganization Theory,” American Journal of Sociology 94 (4) (1989): 774–802.
Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub, Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points
Through Life (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993).
Robert J. Sampson, Stephen Raudenbush, and Felton Earls, “Neighborhoods and Violent Crime:
A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy,” American Journal of Public Health 95 (1997): 225–
232.
Robert J. Sampson and William Julius Wilson, “Towards a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban
Inequality,” in Crime and Inequality, ed. John Hagan and Ruth Peterson (Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford University Press, 1995).
Saskia Sassen, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
University Press, 1991).
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Saskia Sassen, Cities in a World Economy, 2nd ed. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press,
2000).
Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life,” originally published in 1905. Reprinted in
The Sociology of Georg Simmel, ed. Kurt Wolff (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1950).
Gideon Sjoberg, The Preindustrial City (New York: Free Press, 1960).
Wesley G. Skogan, Disorder and Decline: Crime and the Spiral of Decay in American
Neighborhoods (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
David Snow and Leon Anderson, Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
Allen H. Spear, Black Chicago: The Making of a Ghetto, 1890–1920 (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1967).
Carol B. Stack, All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community (New York: Harper &
Row Publishers, 1974).
Gerald D. Suttles, The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968).
Ivan Szelenyi, Urban Inequalities Under State Socialism (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1983).
Frederic Thrasher, The Gang (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928).
Michael H. Tonry, Malign Neglect—Race, Crime, and Punishment in America (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1995).
Van C. Tran, “More Than Just Black: Cultural Perils and Opportunities in Inner-City
Neighborhoods,” in Bringing Culture Back In: New Approaches to the Problems of Black Youth,
ed. Orlando Patterson and Ethan Fosse (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
forthcoming).
Charles Valentine, Culture and Poverty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968).
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System (New York: Academic Press, 1976).
Max Weber, “The Nature of the City.” Reprinted in Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities, ed.
Richard Sennett (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969).
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Barry Wellman, “The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers,” American
Journal of Sociology 84 (5) (1979): 1201–1231.
Bruce Western and Katherine Beckett, “How Unregulated is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal
System as a Labor Market Institution,” American Journal of Sociology 104 (4) (1999): 1030–
1060.
Bruce Western, Punishment and Inequality in America (New York: Russell Sage Foundation,
2007).
Michael White and Jennifer Glick, Achieving Anew: How New Immigrants Do in American
Schools, Jobs, and Neighborhoods (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009).
William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1978).
William Julius Wilson, The Truly Disadvantaged (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (New York:
Vintage Books, 1996).
William Julius Wilson and Robert Aponte, “Urban Poverty,” Annual Review of Sociology 11
(1985): 231–258.
Jamie Winders, “Seeing Immigrants: Institutional Visibility and Immigrant Incorporation in New
Immigrant Destinations,” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
641 (May 2012): 58–78.
Louis Wirth, The Ghetto (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928).
Louis Wirth, “Urbanism as a Way of Life,” American Journal of Sociology 44 (1) (1938): 1–24.
Harvey Zorbaugh, The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago’s Near North
Side (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929).
Sharon Zukin, The Culture of Cities (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1995).