Topics and/or Titles of Sessions Organized for 2008 REP IV, Miami As of October 27, 2008 1. Michelle Abarca, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center Advancing the Human Rights and Well-Being of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: Research, Practical, and Ethical Considerations 2. Henry Abramson, Touro College South No Longer 'Out of Town:' Orthodoxy and the South Florida Jewish Community 3. Joy Adams, Humboldt State University Where Roads Become Bridges: Developing Interpretive Tribal Corridors in Northwest California 4. Augustine Agwuele, Texas State University Rastaman or Iru-were: Hair and Ambivalence Perception of Self 5. Olayemi Akinwunmi, Nasarawa State University, Nigeria Militarization of Politics in Africa: Nigerian Political Elites and the Emergence of Militia Groups 6. Fenda Akiwumi, University of South Florida African Women's Groups in the United States: A Sierra Leone Case Study 7. Heike Alberts, University of Wisconsin-Oskosh The Declining Role of Ethnicity in the Cuban Enclave Economy in Miami 1 8. Etiony Aldarondo, University of Miami Advancing the Human Rights and Well-Being of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: Research, Practical, and Ethical Considerations 9. James Allen, California State University, Northridge Geography of Mexicans' Economic Status Compared to Whites in the United States 10. Derek Alderman, East Carolina University “I Have a Dream” to “I Have a Bad Check”? On Metaphors, Michael Eric Dyson, and Martin Luther King Jr. Streets 11. Virginia Alfonso, University of Miami Using the Book of Life to Promote the Psychosocial Well-being of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children 12. Emmanuel Alvarado, Florida Atlantic University Bridging the Differences: Second Language Fluency and Multiculturalism in America 13. Edward Ameen, University of Miami Advancing the Human Rights and Well-Being of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: Research, Practical, and Ethical Considerations 14. Alejandro Angee and Cynthia S. Hernandez, Florida International University Reproducing Inequalities: Wage Theft in South Florida’s Plant Nursery Industry 15. Pratyusha Basu, University of South Florida Ethnic Isolation or Economic Connection? The Spatial Distribution of Asian Stores in Tampa Bay, Florida 2 16. Angel David Cruz Báez, University of Puerto Rico Recent Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of the Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico 17. Sheri Benn, Texas State University Workshop: Using Hip-Hop for Recruitment and Retention of Undergraduate Students 18. Mary Lynn Bird, American Geographical Society Co-Sponsor and Session Organizer 19. Kimberly Black, University of Tennessee Places of Trauma: Race, Rage and the City in Bambara’s “These Bones Are Not My Child” and Wideman’s “Philadelphia Fire” 20. Sarah A. Blue, Northern Illinois University The Subcontracting of Immigrant Labor and the Re-Building of New Orleans 21. Mark A. Blumler, Binghamton University Ethnicity of the Super-Rich: Changes in the Forbes 400 22. Nemata Blyden, The George Washington University African Women’s Groups in the United States: A Sierra Leone Case Study 23. Martin Bosman, University of South Florida The Shifting Racial Landscapes of Globalization 24. Jomills Braddock, University of Miami Social Isolation and Social Cohesion: The Effects of K-12 Neighborhood and School Segregation on Intergroup Orientations 3 25. Karen Brown, Texas State University Russia-US Collaboration on Social Welfare Issues 26. Lawrence A. Brown, The Ohio State University Housing Foreclosures in Columbus, Ohio: Risk-taking or Vulnerability AND Race, Ethnicity, and Residential Mixing in U. S. MSAs: An Explanation of Differences 27. Michael Brown, New Jersey Institute of Technology Learning from HOPE VI: Redeveloping Distressed Public Housing in Camden, New Jersey 28. Stan Brunn, University of Kentucky Living Together with Separate Identities: Kazakhs and Russians in Semey, Kazakhstan 29. Diana Bruno, University of Puerto Rico Invisible Citizens, Marginal spaces: Haitian-Dominicans in the Dominican Republic 30. Dalianna Carrero, University of Puerto Rico Foreign Population by Municipalities, in Puerto Rico, 2000 31. Elizabeth Chacko, The George Washington University La Fiesta DC: Marking Latino Identity in Public Space 4 32. Jayajit Chakraborty, University of South Florida Ethnic Isolation or Economic Connection? The Spatial Distribution of Asian Stores in Tampa Bay, Florida AND The Intersection of Race and Place: Modeling Exposure to Industrial Pollution in Tampa Bay, Florida AND Air Toxics and Equity: Race, Ethnicity, and Cancer Risks in Florida 33. Glynis Christine Gay and Lesbian Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Place 34. Su-Yeul Chung, Western Illinois University Housing Foreclosures in Columbus, Ohio: Risk-Taking or Vulnerability AND Intra-Urban Ethnic Entrepreneurship Changes: A Case Study of Self-employed Korean immigrants in Chicago IL PMSA, 1990 and 2000 35. William A.V. Clark, UCLA Comparing Preferences and Choices and Their Role in Creating Neighborhood Sorting 36. Darryl Cohen, Census Bureau Discussant: Race, Ethnicity, and Geography 37. Steven M. Cohen, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Location Matters: The Impact of Jewish Residential Density on Jewish Identity in the United States 38. Nel Coloma-Moya, York University The Consortium of Race, Gender and Space: Examples from the Canadian Labor Market 5 39. Craig E. Colten, Louisiana State University Environmental Inequities and Hurricanes in Southeast Louisiana 40. Ramon Concepcion-Torres, UNC-Charlotte Puerto Ricans in a New Gateway: Migration, Settlement and Spatial Assimilation in Orlando, Florida 41. Stavros Constantinou, Ohio State University Persistent Themes in American-Greek Identities 42. Dennis Conway, Indiana University Returning Trinidadian Transnational Migrants’ Views on Race and Color-Class at ‘Home’ and ‘Away from Home’ 43. Ray Cordera, Texas State University Workshop: Using Hip-Hop for Recruitment and Retention of Undergraduate Students 44. Nicholas M. Creary, Ohio University African Oral Sources and the Western Syphilizing Mission in Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi 45. Michael Crutcher, University of Kentucky Martin Luther King and Border State Activism 46. Vanessa Cruz Inoa, Binghamton University Ethnic Responses to Two Florida Hurricanes 47. Rebecca Cultra Russia-US Collaboration on Social Welfare Issues 6 48. Roman Cybriwsky, Temple University Ethnicity, Enjoyment and Employment in Tokyo’s Neon Neighborhoods 49. Dina Dahbany-Miraglia, Queensborough Community College Race, Ethnicity & Place/Space: Yemenite Jewish “spaces” in Yemen, Palestine/Israel and the United States. 50. Nicole Damiano, Binghamton University Latino Groups in Orange County, New York: A Focus on Middletown, 2000 51. Joe T. Darden, Michigan State University The Suburbs: The New Location for Black-Owned Businesses 52. Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut Changes in Jewish Identity though Time and Place 53. Marvin P. Dawkins, University of Miami Action Research in the Urban Setting: The Movement to Save Muny, the First Desegregated Public Golf Course 54. Lois DeFleur, President, Binghamton University Panelist 55. Marlene De La Cruz-Guzmán, Ohio University Writing as Detraumatization: Indigenous Knowledges and African Women’s Rejection of Western Modernity and Postmodernity in Sefi Atta’s “Everything Good Will Come” 7 56. Flor Díaz, University of Puerto Rico Foreign Population by Municipalities, in Puerto Rico, 2000 57. Joshua Diem, University of Miami Advancing the Human Rights and Well-Being of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: Research, Practical, and Ethical Considerations 58. Sharon Ennis, Census Bureau The Hispanic Population 59. Lawrence Estaville, Texas State University with Zhijun Yao Large Latino Businesses 60. Linda Fair, Binghamton University The Social Construction of Race, Ethnicity and Place in Denmark 61. Damian Fernandez, SUNY Purchase Little Havana or Diversity Purgatory: Nowhere Better than this Place, Somewhere Better than this Place 62. Michelle Fernandez, University of Miami Advancing the Human Rights and Well-Being of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: Research, Practical, and Ethical Considerations 63. Celeste A. Fisher, Misericordia University Collaborative Dating: The Black Romantic Comedy on Film 8 64. James Forrest, University of Macquarie, Australia The Dimensions of Attitudes to and Experience of Racism in Australia 65. John W. Frazier, Binghamton University A Comparative Analysis of Destination Choices of Latino and Black NYC Migrants, 1995-2000 AND Jamaicans in Broward County, Florida 66. Owen Furuseth, UNC-Charlotte Defining and Positioning Charlotte’s Latino Community: Newspaper Coverage and Representation 67. Xu Gang, Grand Valley State University An Analysis of Asian Settlements in the U. S. 68. Jose Rafael Diaz Garayua, Kent State University Majority Perceptions of Minorities in San Juan 69. Doris Garcia, Louisiana State University The Making of Black Space in the Honduran Nation 70. Juan C. Garcia-Ellin, UCLA Where are they from? The Hispanic Domestic Migration to Florida 71. Bradley Gardener, CUNY Graduate Center Jews and the White in White Flight: The Creation of Racialized Space in the Bronx 9 72. Martha Geores, University of Maryland The Role of HCVP in the Gentrification of Anacostia 73. Olga Gershenson, University of Massachusetts-Amherst A Room without a View: Gender and Space in Russian-Israeli Film 74. Angela Gilbert, University of South Florida Air Toxics and Equity: Race, Ethnicity, and Cancer Risks in Florida 75. Melissa R. Gilbert, Temple University A Critical Geographic Framework for Examining the Intersection of Digital Divides and Urban Inequalities 76. Shelby Gilbert, Florida Gulf Coast University Action Research in the Urban Setting: The Movement to Save Muny, the First Desegregated Public Golf Course 77. Richard Gioioso, Florida International University Social Trust and Civic Engagement among Latin American Immigrants in Little Havana, Miami 78. Richard Golden, Jewish Studies Program, University of North Texas Session: Ethnic Groups in Israel 79. Jonathan Goldstein, State University of West Georgia Commentator for Session: Ethnic Groups in Israel 80. Judelysse Gomez, University of Miami Using the Book of Life to Promote the Psychosocial Well-being of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children 10 81. Jamie Michelle Goodwin-White, Sussex, UK Emerging Immigrant Geographies: Racial Wage Gaps and Internal Migration Selectivity 82. Adamaris González, University of Puerto Rico Invisible Citizens, Marginal spaces: Haitian-Dominicans in the Dominican Republic 83. Pierre Goovaerts, BioMedware, Inc. Detection and Mapping of Racial and Geographic Disparities in Late Stage Cancer Diagnosis 84. Sue Grady, Michigan State University The Geography of Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality in Michigan 85. Andre Graves, University of Buffalo Revisiting the “Revanchist City” 86. Henry Green, University of Miami South Florida and the Reshaping of Jewish Identity 87. Andrea Greenbaum, Barry University An Overview: Jews of South Florida 88. Liz Grieco, Census Bureau The Impact of International Migration on Population Growth in the United States 11 89. Carlos J. Guilbe Lopez, Puerto Rico The Presence of Haitian Women in the Tourist Landscape of San Juan de Puerto Rico 90. Efe Can Gurcan, Koc University Ethnic Amalgamation Versus Ethnic Division: Inter-national Integrations in Today’s World 91. Thando Gwebu, University of Botswana, Africa Gendered Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) System in Natural Resource Management Among Ethnic Minorities: Findings from a Kgalagadi Desert Case Study 92. Milton E. Harvey, Kent State University A Comparative Analysis of Destination Choices of Latino and Black NYC Migrants, 1995-2000 93. Oliver Hauswald, Katholische Universitaet Eichstaett-Ingolstadt / Germany Ethnic Tourism in Chile: Strategies and emic Perspectives 94. Catherine A. Hawkins, Texas State University Teaching a Global Perspective on Race, Ethnicity, and Place in Social Work Education AND The Role of Race, Ethnicity, and Place in Military Social Work 95. Norah F. Henry, Binghamton University Session Chair 12 96. Monique N. Hernandez, University of Miami HIPPY Miami and Functional Health Literacy in Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations 97. Yael Hershfield, Anti-Defamation League Florida Associate Director Hate in the Information Age 98. Jennifer Hinojosa, Binghamton University A Comparative Analysis of Two Refugee Populations in the Nation’s Capital District: Salvadorans and Vietnamese 99. Ryan Holifield, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dept. of Geography Environmental justice and the cleanup of contaminated urban waterways: A comparative study of Areas of Concern in the Lake Michigan Basin 100. Jody S. Huddleston, University of North Texas Tuberculosis Among the Hispanic/Latino Population of Tarrant County, Texas 101. Susan Hume, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Socio-Spatial Contextual Differences of Pan-Ethnic Identity Construction Among African Students in the U. S. 102. Josh Inwood, Auburn University I See the Promised Land: Examining Dr. Martin Luther King's Concept of the Beloved Community as Geographic Space 103. Emmy Irobi, University of California Making a Difference: The Role of Nigeria Diaspora in Ethnic Conflict Resolution 13 104. Karen Johnson-Webb, Bowling Green University Race and Ethnicity in Carthagena, Ohio: The Dismantling of an African–American Community 105. Ibipo Johnston-Anumono, SUNY-Cortland Analyzing Work Trips as Multifaceted Oppression 106. Nicholas Jones, Census Bureau The Multi-Race Population AND The Black Population 107. Terry Ann Jones, Fairfield University Race, Class, and Migrant Sugar Cane Labor in Brazil 108. Mariolga Juliá, University of Puerto Rico Pinones (Puerto Rico): Race, Culture and Resistance 109. Ivelisse Justiniano, University of Puerto Rico Dominican Communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico 110. David Kaplan, Kent State University Understanding Ethnic Conflict in Kenya: Historical Legacy and Contemporary Political Violence 111. Paul Karolczyk, Louisiana State University “Free the Land” The Republic of New Afrika and the Space of Black Separatism 14 112. Myoung Ouk Kim, Census Bureau Moving from API to Asian and NHOPI 113. Suzanna Klaf, The Ohio State University Exposing the ‘Eraced’: Reform, Educational Inequality and the Inner City 114. Karen Knox Russia-US Collaboration on Social Welfare Issues 115. Audrey Kobayashi, Queens University Transforming the University: An Anti-Racist Agenda 116. Ellen Percy Kraly, Colgate University The Daily Geographies of Vulnerability and Resilience: The Art and Artists of the Carrolup Native Settlement, Western Australia 117. Yenal Kucuker, Binghamton University An Assessment of Professional Turk Assimilation in Rochester, N.Y. 118. Robert W. Lake, Rutgers University Land Wars: Human Capital, Racialization, and Commodification as Governance Strategies in Urban Revitalization 119. Jonathan I. Leib, Old Dominion University Race, Religion and the Confederate Battle Flag in the American South 120. Gary L. Lemons, University of South Florida Becoming a Black Male2Feminist/Womanist: A Racial Act of Gender Transgression 15 121. Gary Levin, Anti-Defamation League Florida Associate Director Anti-Semitic Lynching Leads to Creation of the Anti-Defamation League 122. Wei Li, Arizona State University The Roles of Banks in Immigrant Integration in the U. S. and Canada 123. John Logan, Brown University Immigrant Segregation -- Irish and Germans as Newcomers in the 19th Century City 124. Natalie Lopez, Arizona State University Exploring Perceptions of Crime in Garfield Using Mental Maps and Qualitative GIS 125. Christopher Lukinbeal, Arizona State University Garfield: A Phoenix Hispanic Neighborhood in Transition 126. Ronald W. Luna, University of Maryland The Salvadoran Evangelical Protestant Churches 127. Karen Mahar, Florida International University Not Just a Paycheck Away: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of Social Capital for Poverty and Homelessness in Miami 128. Srabani Maitra, University of Toronto The Consortium of Race, Gender and Space: Examples from the Canadian Labor Market 16 129. Alan P. Marcus, Towson University Brazilian Migration Processes and the Shaping of New Ethno-Racial Landscapes 130. Florence L. Margai, Binghamton University Geographic Inequities in Child Poverty, Race, and Environmental Health Consequences AND Neighborhood Disparities in Pediatric Lead Poisoning: Detection of Spatio-Temporal patterns in Chicago 131. Bernadette Marion, Florida State University Constructing Racial and Cultural Identity and the Children of Asian War Brides 132. Priscilla McCutcheon, University of Georgia The Nation of Islam, Food Politics, and the Black Counterpublic 133. Paul N. McDaniel, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Latino Subgroup Settlement in the Middle-Ring Suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina 134. Brendan McGovern, Binghamton University Irish Immigrants and their Children: Contemporary Patterns in NYC 135. Svetlana Michailova Russia-US Collaboration on Social Welfare Issues 136. Edris Montalvo, Texas State University Latino and African American Student Recruitment in U. S. Universities 17 137. Burrell E. Montz, Binghamton University Systemic Trends in Vulnerability: Policies, Practices, and Ethnic Differences in Disaster Recovery 138. Roberto Morales, University of Puerto Rico Pinones (Puerto Rico): Race, Culture and Resistance 139. Mary Morrison Russia-US Collaboration on Social Welfare Issues 140. Petah Muraya, Howard University Understanding Ethnic Conflict in Kenya: Historical Legacy and Contemporary Political Violence 141. Phil Nadeau, Deputy City Administrator, Lewiston, Maine Somalis in Lewiston, Maine 142. Tekla Nicholas, Florida International University How Home Address Shapes Destiny: Residential Clustering, School Segregation, and the Education of Haitian Youth in South Florida 143. Amie L. Nielsen, University of Miami Racial/Ethnic Composition, Social Disorganization, and Offsite Alcohol Availability in San Diego County, California 144. Orathai Northern, University of South Florida A Meditation on Transnational/ Transracial Adoption: When the Adoptive Parents aren't White, and All of Us are Brave 18 145. Joseph Oppong, University of North Texas Ethnic/Racial Disparities in Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Tarrant County, Texas 146. David Organ, Clark Atlanta University Historical Preservation, Self-Representation, and Reconstruction of African-American Community Life at Colonel Allen Allensworth, California State Historic Park 147. Tatiana Ortiz, University of Puerto Rico Dominican Communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico 148. Kefa Otiso, Bowling Green University A Geo-Demographic Analysis of Kenyan Immigration in the United States 149. Tonny Oyana, University of Illinois Who is Being Left Behind? Geographic Disparities in Broadband Access and Use in Rural Southern Illinois 150. Shanira Pabón, University of Puerto Rico Invisible Citizens, Marginal spaces: Haitian- Dominicans in the Dominican Republic 151. David Padgett, Tennessee State University Ranking African American Quality of Life in U. S. Cities 152. Virginia Parks, University of Chicago Geography and Racial Wage Inequality: Unevenness and BlackImmigrant Differences across U.S. Labor Markets 19 153. Bernard Perlmutter, University of Miami Advancing the Human Rights and Well-Being of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children: Research, Practical, and Ethical Considerations 154. Bruce Phillips, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Post-War Suburbs: The Jewish Neighborhoods of the 21st Century 155. Joan Phillips, Policy Studies Institute, London, England Race, Ethnicity and Second-Generation Return Migration: “Barbados did slavery the best…” 156. Avi Picard, Taub Center for Israel Studies, NYU Populating Israel’s Remote Areas with Moroccan Immigrants during the 1950’s 157. Sharon Placide, Florida International University Encountering the One-Drop Rule: Racial Identity Negotiation Among Mixed-Race Jamaicans in South Florida 158. Will Poppe, SUNY Buffalo Social Connections and Refugee Settlement in Buffalo 159. Rob Potter, University of Reading, UK Race, Ethnicity and Second-Generation Return Migration: “Barbados did slavery the best…” AND Returning Trinidadian Transnational Migrants’ Views on Race and ColorClass at ‘Home’ and ‘Away from Home’. 20 160. Marie Price, The George Washington University Hispanic Entrepreneurship in an Immigrant Gateway: Bolivians in Washington, D. C. 161. Patricia L. Price, Florida International University Comparative Civic and Place Engagement in Three Latino/Latina Neighborhoods in Transition AND Beyond Exceptionalism: Approaching Latino Urban Geographies through Little Havana 162. Nick Quinton, Florida State University Constructing Racial and Cultural Identity and the Children of Asian War Brides 163. Roberto Ramirez, Census Bureau The Non-Hispanic White Population AND The American Indian Population 164. Lisa R Rawlings, Howard University FEMA Camp Residence and Psychological Functioning of AfricanAmerican Survivors of Hurricane Katrina 165. Mark Reisinger, Binghamton University Who Serves Who? Latino Business Location in Reading, PA 166. Gabriela Rios, University of Puerto Rico Dominican Communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico 167. Javier Rodriguez, Binghamton University Dominican Migration and Settlement Patterns in Puerto Rico 21 168. Chanelle Rose, Rowan University Neither Southern nor Northern: Miami, Florida and the Black Freedom Struggle in America's Vacation Paradise, 1945-1968 169. Andrew Rosenkranz, Anti-Defamation League Florida Director Once Again, Anti-Zionism Becomes Anti-Semitism 170. Luis Sanchez, Florida State University Orlando, Florida: Puerto Rico’s 79th Municipality? 171. Rickie Sanders, Temple University Sidewalks, Streets, and Alleys: The Public Space of Urban Communities 172. Andrew Schoolmaster, Dean, Arts & Sciences, Texas Christian University Conference Co-Sponsor 173. Katherine Selber, Texas State University The Role of Race, Ethnicity, and Place in Military Social Work 174. LéTania Severe, Florida International University How Home Address Shapes Destiny: Residential Clustering, School Segregation, and the Education of Haitian Youth in South Florida 175. Donna Shalala, President, University of Miami Panelist 22 176. Madhuri Sharma and Lawrence A. Brown, The Ohio State University A Mixed-Methods Approach for Examining Change in Racial/Ethnic Residential Intermixing in Columbus Ohio, 1990-2000 177. Ira Sheskin, University of Miami Geography and the Jewish Vote AND Demography of Jews in South Florida 178. Larry Sink, Census Bureau Issues in Race Estimation 179. Emily Skop, University of Colorado The Role of Protests, Rallies, and Raids in Identifying New Latino Immigrant Settlements 180. Heather Smith, UNC-Charlotte Latino Access to Healthcare in Charlotte, North Carolina 181. James Smith, Towson State University Chinese Americans in an Ethnic Church: Faith, Identities, and Social Capital 182. Joanne Smith, VP for Student Affairs, Texas State University Workshop: Using Hip-Hop for Recruitment and Retention of Undergraduate Students 183. Anthony C. Stevenson, Radnor Township School District and Rowan University Have We Turned Our Backs on Brown v. Board of Education? The Causes of Resegregation in Public Schools 23 184. Joseph J Sudano, Case Western Reserve University Health Effects of the Location Quotient for Racial Residential Segregation (LQRRS) on Aging Adults 185. Selima Sultana, UNC-Greensboro Race and Accessibility to Employment: A Comparison of the Spatial Linkages between Home and Workplace in Atlanta and Charlotte 186. Kristin M. Sziarto, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee The Uneven Landscape of Immigrant Regulation and Resistance: Genealogies of Local Ordinances 187. Orlando Taylor, Graduate Dean, Howard University Race and Migration in Europe: Work in Progress at Howard University 188. Ninothska Toro, University of Puerto Rico Foreign Population by Municipalities, in Puerto Rico, 2000 189. Ivelisse Torres, University of Puerto Rico Pinones (Puerto Rico): Race, Culture and Resistance 190. Denise Trauth, President, Texas State University Panelist 191. Lele Truong, University of Waterloo The Consortium of Race, Gender and Space: Examples from the Canadian Labor Market 24 192. Eugene Turner, California State University-Northridge U. S. Counties with either Very High or Very Low Mexican Socioeconomic Status 193. James Tyner, Kent State University The “Price” of Peace: Martin Luther King, Jr., Non-Violence and the Perversion of American Militarism since 1968 194. Carlos Teixeira, University of British Columbia, Canada Housing Experiences of Black Africans in Toronto’s Rental Market 195. Eugene L. Tettey-Fio, Binghamton University Ghanaians’ Experiences in Columbus, Ohio 196. Mohammad Taqi Tirmazi, Howard University Muslim Youth: Finding their Place in a Changing Environment 197. Graham Tobin, University of South Florida Impacts of Remittances on Disaster-Prone Communities 198. Nena Torres, University of Illinois Chicago The Paradoxes of Place, Identity, and Community in a Global City: The Case of Pilsen 199. Isaac Ukpokolo, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Mother-in-laws and Spousal Conflicts: An Interrogation of Dark Spots in the Extended Family System Among the Edo Speaking People of Southern Nigeria 25 200. Tricia Vanderkooy, Florida International University Gendered Pathways: Exploring the Life Trajectories of Second-Generation Haitians in Miami 201. Micheline van Riemsdijk, University of Tennessee Free movement of workers? Ethnic valuation of skills in the European Union 202. Liana Tuttle Vasseur, University of Kentucky Passionate Ambivalence: Miami’s Cuban Migrants and U.S. Immigration Policy 203. Judith Veinstein, Independent Scholar, Tel Aviv Location Matters: The Impact of Jewish Residential Density on Jewish Identity in the United States 204. Catherine Veninga, College of Charleston When Cleaning Up Means Clearing Out: Race, Capital, and the Politics of Neighborhood Change in Charleston, SC 205. Juan Villamar, University of Miami Using the Book of Life to Promote the Psychosocial Well-being of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children 206. Pamela Wadende, Texas State University Wangari Maathai: Women, Gender and Politics in Kenya 207. Angelika Wahl, Texas State University Gay and Lesbian Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Place 26 208. Sheri Wahl Gay and Lesbian Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Place 209. Susan Walcott, UNC-Greensboro The Geography of Ethnic Self-Employment in Metropolitan Atlanta 210. Qingfang Wang, UNC Charlotte Ethnic Entrepreneurship under Multiethnic and Multiracial Urban Contexts in the US: A Multilevel Analysis 211. Roxanne Watson, University of South Florida Race and Politics in Trinidad in the Granting of Broadcast Licenses 212. Michael Webb, The Ohio State University Housing Foreclosures in Columbus, Ohio: Risk-taking or Vulnerability AND The Other Side of Controversy: Racial/Ethnic Minorities as Gentrifiers 213. Gerald Webster, University of Wyoming, Laramie Race, Religion and the Confederate Battle Flag in the American South 214. Audrey Weyler, University of Miami Using the Book of Life to Promote the Psychosocial Well-being of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children 215. Dennis M. Williams, Jr., Hatboro-Horsham High School Have We Turned Our Backs on Brown v. Board of Education? The Causes of Resegregation in Public Schools 27 216. Marilyn M. Williams, University of South Florida The Intersection of Race and Place: Modeling Exposure to Industrial Pollution in Tampa Bay, Florida 217. Bobby Wilson, University of Alabama Race, “Consumerization,” and American Capitalism AND Economic Impact of Jim Crow Race Relations in Commodity Exchange 218. David Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Changing Racialized Growth Governances: the Chicago Case 219. George Wilson, University of Miami The Impact of Public Sector Reform On African American Mobility into Upper-Tier Occupations 220. Jaime Winders, Syracuse University The Reconfiguration of a Key Social Space and Institutions during Latinization: The Case of Nashville Public Schools 221. Richard A. Wright, Dartmouth College Black-White Households in Neighborhood Context 222. Elvin Wyly, University of British Columbia The Subprime State of Race 223. Leon Yacher, University of South Connecticut Ethnic and Racial Segregation: A Perspective from New Haven, Connecticut 28 224. Ian Yeboah, Miami University - Oxford, Ohio Developmental Impacts of Migration on Ghana 225. Kendall Zanowiak, Political Asylum of Austin The Role of Protests, Rallies, and Raids in Identifying New Latino Immigrant Settlements 226. Marcia Zerivitz, Jewish Museum of Florida South Florida Jews: Achievements Trump Discrimination 227. Haifeng Zhang, University of Louisville Mapping School Choice and White Flight in Louisville, Kentucky 228. Ezra Zeitler, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Geographies of Indigenous-based Mascot Use in American Secondary Schools 229. Zion Zohar, Florida International University Ethnic Protest Movements in the State of Israel- A 60-Year Perspective 29