Publications

Books

Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth [with Claude Fischer, Michael Hout,

Samuel Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss] (Princeton University Press,1996). Winner of the 1997 “Gustavus Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America.” 

Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society. (University of California Press, 1991).  

            Winner of the American Sociological Association's 1992 "Robert E. Park          Award." 

            Winner of the Society For the Study of Social Problems' 1993 "Best Book in    Crime and Delinquency Award."

Honorable Mention for the 1992 C. Wright Mills Award.

City Bound: Urban Life and Political Attitudes Among Chicano Youth.  (University of New Mexico Press, 1986).

            Winner of Choice’s 1987 "Outstanding Academic Book Award."

 

Chapters, Articles, Working Papers

“Gangs and Social Change,” Theoretical Criminology, Vol 7, No. 2, (2003): 191-215.

“Minority Youth and Civic Engagement: The Impact of Group Relations,” Applied Developmental Science, Vol. 6, No. 4, (2002): 237-245.

“Representation, Responsibility and Reliability in Participant-Observation,” Tim May (ed.), Qualitative Research in Action (London: Sage Publications, 2002)

“The Concentration of African American Poverty and the Dispersal of the Working Class: An Ethnographic Study of Three Inner City Areas,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 23, 4 (Dec. 1999): 619-637.

"Where Have All The Nationalists Gone?: Change and Persistence in Radical Political Attitudes Among Chicanos, 1976-1986," David Montejano (ed.), Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century (University of Texas Press, 1999).

“Gangs,” Neil Larry Shumsky (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Cities and Suburbs (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 1998).

“Using Computers To Analyze Ethnographic Field Data: Theoretical and Practical Considerations” [with Daniel Dohan], John Hagan and Karen S. Cook (eds.) Annual Review of Sociology, 24, (1998): 477-98.

“As gangues e a estructura da sociedade norte-americana,” [Gangs and the Structure of U.S. Society] Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, 12, 34 (June 1997): 25-35.

"The Increasing Significance of Status in U. S. Race Relations," Michael P. Smith and Joe R. Feagan (eds.) The Bubbling Cauldron: Race and Ethnicity in the Urban Crisis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).

"Ethnography, Inequality and Crime in The Low-Income Community," John Hagan and Ruth D. Peterson (eds.) Crime and Inequality (Stanford: Stanford University Press,1995).

“Les ganges et la presse,” [Gangs and the Media]  Actes De La Recherche En Sciences Sociales, 101-102, (March, 1994): 101-117.

"Gangs in Politics" in Joel Krieger (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Politics of The World (Oxford University Press, 1993).

"Ethnic Identity and Political Consciousness in Different Social Orders." New Directions for Child Development 56 (Summer 1992).

"The Politics of Immigration Reform:  Some Comparative Notes on the Reagan and Thatcher Governments," Working Paper Series, Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley, 1987.

 

Books in Preparation

[Main Title]: Change and Maintenance in Poverty Neighborhoods (Berkeley: University of California Press). A book reporting the findings from nine years of participant observation study in five urban low-income neighborhoods in the United States.  Eleven chapters completed and being edited.  Expected date of sending manuscript to the Press is December 1, 2003.

[Main Title]: The Anatomy of Violence among the Poor in School. A book reporting the findings of from two years of participant observation in five Inner-City Schools in Los Angeles and Oakland, California.  Three Chapter Completed, and four more to write.  Expected completion in September, 2004.

 

Chapters and Articles in Preparation

"Work Trajectories in the Illegal Underground Economy," An article reporting the findings from longitudinal ethnographic data gathered on 102 subjects in New York, Los Angeles, and Boston that I have been following since 1980.

"Some Social Sources Influencing The Involvement of White Residents in the Boston Anti-Busing Movement."  An article reporting the findings of 200 in-depth interviews conducted among white residents of Charlestown and South Boston.

 

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