Selected Publications

BOOKS

2007
Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism among the Black Poor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

2007
“Examining the Impact of Welfare Reform, the Economic Expansion, and the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Employment of Black and White Single Mothers” (with Mary Noonan and Mary Corcoran) Social Science Research 36:95-130.

2005
"'Don't put my name on it': (Dis)Trust and Job-Finding Assistance among the Black Urban Poor." American Journal of Sociology 111(1):1-57. Lead Article; Spotlighted in Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds, Volume 5, No. 2.

2003
"Social Capital and the Urban Poor: Extending the Scholarly Tradition of William Julius Wilson" Ethnic and Racial Studies 26(6): 1029-1045.

2000
"Intraracial Diversity and Relations among African Americans: Feelings of Closeness among Black Students at a Predominantly White University" American Journal of Sociology 106(1):1-39. (with Mignon Moore)

2000
"Mobilizing Social Resources: Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Social Capital and Persisting Wage Inequalities" The Sociological Quarterly 41(4):509-537.

Reprinted in the college text, Prejudice and Discrimination in America: A Book of Readings, 2001, edited by Juan Gonzales. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.

 

BOOK REVIEWS AND SHORT PIECES

2005
Review of Working and Growing Up in America, by Jeylan T. Mortimer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) in Social Forces 84(1):610-612.

2004
Review of The Minority Rights Revolution, by John D. Skrentny (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002) in Contexts (summer): 65-6.

2003
Review of Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America, by Jennifer Lee (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002) Social Forces 81(4):1520.

2001
Review of A Poverty of Imagination: Bootstrap Capitalism, Sequel to Welfare Reform, by David Stoesz (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), American Journal of Sociology 107(2): 513-515.

 

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