Race & Ethnic Relations Comps Reading List Fall 2004
The Declining Significance of Race in the US, Part I
Wilson, William Julius. 1980. "Modern Industrialization and the Alteration of
Competitive Race Relations" and "Epilogue: Race, Class, and Social Policy." pp. 88-121
and 155-182 in Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race , rev. ed. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Collins, Sharon. 1983. "The Making of the Black Middle Class."
Social Problems 30: 369-382.
Feagin, Joe. 1991. "The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack
Discrimination in Public Places." American Sociological Review 56:
101- 117.
Jackson, Pamela Braboy, Peggy A. Thoits, and Howard F. Taylor. 1995.
"Composition of the Workplace and Psychological Well-Being: The
Effects of Tokenism on America's Black Elite." Social Forces 74: 543-557.
Oliver, Melvin L., and Thomas M. Shapiro. 1995. "A Story of Two Nations: Race and
Wealth." Pp. 91-125 in Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial
Inequality . New York: Routledge.
Sakamoto, Arthur, Huei-Hsia Wu, and Jessie M. Tzeng. 1997. "The Declining
Significance of Race Among American Men During the Latter Half of the 20th Century."
Unpublished manuscript.
Farkas, George, Paula England, Kevin Vicknair, and Barbara Stanek Kilbourne. 1997.
"Cognitive Skill, Skill Demands of Jobs, and Earnings Among Young European
American, African American, and Mexican American Workers." Social Forces 75:
913-938.
The Declining Significance of Race in the US, Part II
Wilson, William Julius. 1991. "Studying Inner-City Social Dislocations: The Challenge
of Public Agenda Research." American Sociological Review 56: 1- 14.
Kirschenman, Joleen, and Kathryn M. Neckerman. 1991. "We'd Love to Hire
Them, But ... The Meaning of Race for Employers." Pp. 203-234 in The Urban
Underclass , edited by Christopher Jencks and Paul Peterson. Washington: Brookings
Institution.
Cohn, Samuel, and Mark Fossett. 1996. "What Spatial Mismatch? The
Proximity of Blacks to Employment in Boston and Houston." Social Forces
573.
75: 557-
Quane, James M., and Bruce H. Rankin. 1995. "Neighborhood Poverty, Family
Characteristics, and Commitment to Mainstream Goals: The Case of African- American
Adolescents in the Inner City." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Sociological Association.
Rosenbaum, James E., and Susan J. Popkin. 1991. "Employment and Earnings of LowIncome Blacks Who Move to Middle-Class Suburbs." Pp. 342-356 in The Urban
Underclass , edited by C. Jencks and P. Peterson. Washington: Brookings Institution.
Jarrett, Robin L. 1994. "Living Poor: Family Life Among Single Parent,
African-American Women." Social Problems 41: 30-49.
Massey, Douglas. 1990. "American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the
Underclass." American Journal of Sociology 96: 329-357.
Krivo, Lauren J., and Ruth D. Peterson. 1996. "Extremely Disadvantaged
Neighborhoods and Urban Crime." Social Forces 75: 619-648.
Moore, Joan, and James Diego Vigil. 1993. "Barrios in Transition." Pp.
27-51 n In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate , edited by J. Moore and R.
Pinderhughes. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Residential Patterns and Segregation
Farley, Reynolds, and William H. Frey. 1994. "Changes in the Segregation of Whites
From Blacks During the 1980s: Small Steps Toward a More Racially Integrated Society."
American Sociological Review 59: 23-45.
Farley, Reynolds, Charlotte Steeh, Maria Krysan, Tara Jackson, and Keith Reeves. 1994.
"Stereotypes and Segregation: Neighborhoods in the
Detroit Area. American Journal of Sociology 100: 750-780.
Collins, Michael, and George Galster. 1995. "Discriminatory Marketing of Racially
Mixed Neighborhoods in Memphis." Journal of Urban Affairs
17: 339-355.
Alba, Richard D., John R. Logan, and Kyle Crowder. 1997. "White Ethnic
Neighborhoods and Assimilation: The Greater New York Region, 1980-1990."
Forces 75: 883-912.
Social
Betancur, John J. 1996. "The Settlement Experience of Latinos in Chicago: Segregation,
Speculation, and the Ecology Model." Social Forces 74: 1299- 1324.
Ong, Paul M., and Evelyn Blumenburg. 1993. "An Unnatural Tradeoff: Latinos and
Environmental Justice." Pp. 207-225 in Latinos in a Changing US Economy , edited
by Rebecca Morales and Frank Bonilla. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Telles, Edward E. 1992. "Residential Segregation by Skin Color in
Brazil." American Sociological Review 57: 186-197.
Debates Over Immigration
Bean, Frank D., Robert G. Cushing, Charles W. Haynes, and Jennifer V.W. Van Hook.
1997. "Immigration and the Social Contract." Social Science
Quarterly 78: 249-268.
Baker, Susan Gonzalez. 1997. "The `Amnesty' Aftermath: Current Policy
Issues Stemming from the Legalization Programs of the 1986 Immigration Reform and
Control Act." International Migration Review 31: 5-27.
Hein, Jeremy. 1993. "Refugees, Immigrants, and the State."
Review of Sociology 19: 43-59.
Annual
Brimelow, Peter. 1995. "Immigration Has Consequences: Economics." Pp.
137-155 in Alien Nation . New York: Harper.
Bean, Frank D., Jennifer V.W. Van Hook, and Jennifer E. Glick. 1997.
"Country of Origin, Type of Public Assistance, and Patterns of Welfare Recipiency
Among US Immigrants and Natives." Social Science Quarterly 78: 432-451.
Waldinger, Roger. 1997."Black/Immigrant Competition Re-assessed: New
Evidence from Los Angeles." Sociological Perspectives 40: 365-386.
Dunn, Timothy J. In press. "Border Enforcement and Human Rights Violations in the
Southwest." In Race and Ethnic Relations in the United States: Readings for the 21st
Century , edited by C.G. Ellison and W.A. Martin. Los Angeles: Roxbury.
Entrepreneurship, Incorporation, and Adaptation
Waters, Mary C., and Karl Eschbach. 1995. "Immigration and Ethnic and
Racial Inequality in the United States." Annual Review of Sociology 21:419-446.
Waldinger, Roger, Howard Aldrich, and Robin Ward. 1990. "Opportunities,
Group Characteristics, and Strategies." Pp. 13-48 in Ethnic Entrepreneurs , edited by
Waldinger, Aldrich, Ward, and associates. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Logan, John R., Richard D. Alba, and Thomas L. McNulty. 1994. "Ethnic
Economies in Metropolitan Regions: Miami and Beyond." Social Forces
72: 691-724.
Zhou, Min, and John R. Logan. 1989. "Returns to Human Capital in Ethnic
Enclaves: New York City's Chinatown." American Sociological Review
54: 809-820.
Butler, John Sibley, and Kenneth L. Wilson. 1990. "Entrepreneurial
Enclaves in the African-American Experience." Occasional paper, National Center for
Neighborhood Enterprise, Washington, DC.
Cornell, Stephen, and Joseph M. Kalt. 1992. "Reloading the Dice: Improving the Chances
for Economic Development on American Indian Reservations." Pp. 1-59 in What Can
Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development ,
edited by S. Cornell and J. Kalt. Los Angeles:American Indian Studies Center.
Nee, Victor, Jimy M. Sanders, and Scott Sernau. 1994. "Job Transitions in an Immigrant
Metropolis: Ethnic Boundaries and the Mixed Economy."
American Sociological Review 59: 849-872.
Aldrich, Howard and Roger Waldinger. 1990. “Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship.” Annual
Review of Sociology 16: 111-135.
Bates, Timothy. 1994. “Social Resources Generated by Group Support Networks May
Not Be Beneficial to Asian Immigrant Owned Small Businesses.” Social Forces 72:
671-689.
Chin, Kwang Chung, In-Jin Yoon, David Smith. 1996. “Immigrant Small Business and
International Economic Linkage: A Case of the Korean Wig Business in Los Angeles,
1968-1977.” International Migration Review 30: 485-510
Evans, M.D.R. 1989. “Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Effects of Ethnic Market Size
and Isolated Labor Pool.” American Sociological Review 54: 950-962.
Fain, S. 1980. “Self-Employed Americans: Their Number has Increased.” Monthly
Labor Review 103: 3-8.
Ghosh, Shubba. 1996. “Understanding Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Theoretical and
Empirical Issues.” In Reframing the Immigration Debate: a Public Policy Report.
Eds. Bill Ong Hing and Ronald Lee. Los Angeles, CA: LEAP Asian Pacific
American Public Policy Institute and UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Glazer, N. and Daniel Moynihan. 1963. Beyond the Melting Pot. Cambridge: MIT
Press.
Prejudice and Intergroup Attitudes
Schuman, Howard, and Charlotte Steeh. 1996. "The Complexity of Racial
Attitudes in America." Pp. 455-469 in Origins and Destinies:
Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America , edited by S. Pedraza and R. Rumbaut.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Kluegel, James R. 1990. "Trends in Whites' Explanations of the Black-White Gap in
Socioeconomic Status, 1977-1989." American Sociological Review 55:512-525.
Dovidio, John F., Samuel L. Gaertner, Phyllis A. Anastasio, and Raysid
Sanitioso. 1992. "Cognitive and Motivational Bases of Bias: Implications of Aversive
Racism for Attitudes Toward Hispanics." Pp. 75-108 in Hispanics in the Workplace ,
edited by S.B. Knouse, P. Rosenfeld, and A.L. Culbertson. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Sniderman, Paul, and Thomas Piazza. 1993. "Pictures in the Mind." Pp.
35-65 in The Scar of Race . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Bobo, Lawrence, and Vincent Hutchings. 1996. "Perceptions of Racial Group
Competition: Extending Blumer's Theory of Group Position to a Multiracial Social
Context." American Sociological Review 61: 951-972.
Ellison, Christopher G., and Daniel A. Powers. 1994. "The Contact
Hypothesis and Racial Attitudes Among Black Americans." Social Science
Quarterly 75: 385-400.
Goldhagen, David Jonah. 1997. "Recasting the View of Anti-Semitism: A
Framework for Analysis." Pp. 27-48 in Hitler's Willing Executioners:
Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust . New York: Vintage Books
Identity Construction and Negotiation
Waters, Mary C. 1990. "The Costs of a Costless Community." Pp. 147-168
in Waters, Ethnic Options . Berkeley: University of California Press.
Reed, John Shelton. 1983. "Who Am I? Regional Affiliation" and
"What is a Southerner? Regional Consciousness." Pp. 11-55 in Southerners: The Social
Psychology of Sectionalism . Chapel Hill: IRSS/University of North Carolina Press.
Nagel, Joane. 1995. "American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Politics and the
Resurgence of Identity." American Sociological Review 60: 947-965.
Waters, Mary C. 1994. "Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black
Immigrants in New York City." International Migration Review 28: 795-820.
Spickard, Paul R., and Rowena Fong. 1995. "Pacific Islander Americans and
Multiethnicity: A Vision of America's Future?" Social Forces 73:
1365- 1383.
Portes, Alejandro, and Min Zhou. 1993. "The New Second Generation:
Segmented Assimilation and its Variants." Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Sciences 530: 74-96.
Hechter M., 1978, Group Formation and the Cultural Division of Labour, "AJS", vol. 84,
n. 2, pp. 293-318.
Diversity and the Academy
Ogbu, John U. 1990. "Racial Stratification and Education." Pp. 3-34 in
US Race Relations in the 1980s and 1990s: Challenges and Alternatives , edited by
Gail E. Thomas. New York: Hemisphere/Taylor and Francis.
Feagin, Joe R. 1992. "The Continuing Significance of Racism: Discrimination Against
Black Students in White Colleges." Journal of Black Studies 22: 546-578.
Steele, Shelby. 1990. "The Recoloring of Campus Life." Pp. 127-148 in
Steele,
The Content of Our Character . New York: St. Martin's Press.
Ehrlich, Howard J. 1994. "Campus Ethnoviolence." Pp. 279-290 in Race
and Ethnic Conflict , edited by Fred Pincus and Howard Ehrlich. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. 1992. "History the Weapon." Pp. 45-72 in
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society . New York: W.W.
Norton.