Featured Papers

This area of the Cyberhood contains articles and working papers that may be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners working in communities of color and poor central city neighborhoods.

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Featured Paper(s) of the Month  

Hutson, Mala Andre and Sacoby Wilson. 2011.The role of community-based strategies in addressing metropolitan segregation and racial health disparities. Community Development 42(4): 476-493.

Bolton, Elizabeth and Muthusami Kumaran. 2012. Making Current Events Youth Relevant. Department of Family, Youth & Community Services. University of Florida.

Assessing the Necessity and Efficiency of the Community Reinvestmenr Act," Housing Policy Debate 16(1): 143-172.

Baker, William H., H. Lon Addams and Brian Davis. 2005. "Critical Factors for Enhancing Public Hearings," Public Administration Review July/August: 490-499.

Barton, Alan W. and Sarah J. Leonard. 2010. Incorporating Social Justice in Tourism Planning: Racial Reconcilliation and Sustainable Community Development in the Deep South. Community Development 41(3): 298-322.

Beebeejaun, Yasminah. 2006. "The Participation Trap: The Limitations of Participation for Ethnic and Racial Groups," International Planning Studies 11(1): 3-18.

Bishop, K.W. 2010. "The Idle Proletariat: Dawn of the Dead, Consumer Ideology, and the Loss of Productive Labor." Journal of Popular Culture 43(2): 234-248.

Bonds, Michael. 2007. "Looking Beyond the Numbers: The Struggle of Black Business to Survive, a Qualitative Approach" Journal of Black Studies 37(5): 581-601.

BondGrahm, Darwin. 2011. Building the New New Orleans: Foundation and NGO Power. Review of Black Political Economy Online First: 1-18. 

Bolton, Elizabeth and Muthusami Kumaran. 2012. Making Current Events Youth Relevant. Department of Family, Youth & Community Services. University of Florida.

Bowen, Glenn A. 2008. "An Analysis of Citizen Participation in Anti-Poverty Programmes," Community Development Journal 43(1): 65-78.

Boyd, Robert. 2009. Urban Locations of Eminent Black Entrepreneurs in the United States. Urban Studies, 46(10): 2061-2078.

Brecher, Charles and Oliver Wise. 2008. "Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Challenges for Managing Philanthropic Support for Public Services," Public Administration Review December:146-161.  

Brooks, Scott N. and Michael A. McHail. 2008. "A Theory of the Preferred Worker: A Structural Explaination for Black Male Dominance in Basketball," Critical Sociology 34(3): 369-387.  

Carden, Art, Charles Courtemanche and Jeremy Meiners. 2009. "Does Wal-Mart Reduce Social Capital?," Public Choice 138: 109-136.

Carpenter, Dick M. and John K. Ross. 2009. "Testing O'Connor and Thomas: Does the Use of Eminent Domain Target Poor and Minority Communities?." Urban Studies, 46(11): 2447-2461.

Carr, Matt. 2010. "Sloutching Toward Dystopia: The New Military Futurism." Race & Class 51(3): 13-32.

Carter, George R, III. 2011. From Exclusion to Destitution: Race, Affordable Housing, and Homelessness. Cityscape 13(1): 33-70. 

Chambers, Stefanie. 2007. "Minority Empowerment and Environmental Justice" Urban Affairs Review 43(1): 28-54. 

Chaskin, Robert J. 2005. "Democracy and Bureaurcacy in a Community Planning Process," Journal of Planning Education and Research 24:408-419.

Christens, Brian D. and Tom Dolan. 2011. Interweaving Youth Development, Community Development, and Social Change through Youth Organizing. Youth & Society 43(2): 528-548. 

Clark, William A.V. 2007. "Race, Class, and Place: Evaluating Mobility Outcomes for African Americans" Urban Affairs Review 42(3): 295-314.

Colhane, Dennis P. and Stephen Metraux. 2008. Rearranging the Deck Chairs or Reallocating the Lifeboats?: Homelessness Assistance and Its Alternatives. Journal of The American Planning Association 74(1): 111-121.  

DeWeese-Boyd, Margaret. 2005. "Community Versus Development: Land-use and Development Policy in Vermont as a Tool Toward Community Viability," Community Development Journal 41(3): 335-351.

Dierwechter, Yonn and Brian Coffey. 2010. "Assessing the Effects of Neighborhood Councils on Urban Policy and Development: The Case of Tacoma, Washington." The Social Science Journal 47:471-491.

Drew, Emily M. 2011. "Listening through White Ears": Cross-Racial Dialogues as a Strategy to Address the Racial Effects of Gentrification. Journal of Urban Affairs Online First. 

Ellen, Ingrid Gould, Michael C. Lens and Katherine O'Regan. 2011. Memphis Murder Mystery Revisited: Do Housing Voucher Households Cause Crime?. Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy, NYU. 

Emejulu, Akwugo. 2011. The Silencing of Radical Democracy in American Community Development: The Struggle of Itentities, Discourses, and Practices. Community Development Journal 46(2): 229-244.

Fraser, James and Michael H. Nelson. 2008. "Can Mixed-Income Housing Ameliorate Concentrated Poverty? The Significance of a Geographically Informed Sense of Community." Geography Compass 2(6): 2127-2144.

Fraser, James, Deirdre Oakley, and Joshua Bazuin. 2011. Public Ownership and Private Profit in Housing. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Online First: 1-16.

Frisch, Michael and Lisa J. Servon. 2006. "CDCs and the Changing Context of Urban Community Development: A Review of the Field and the Environment" Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 37(4): 88-108.

Galster, George and Jason Booza. 2007. "The Rise of the Bipolar Neighborhood," Journal of the American Planning Association 73(4): 421-435.

Ganapati, Sukumar and Howard Frank. 2008. "Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences: Impact of Adker Consent Decree on Miami-Dade County's Subsidized Housing," Urban Affairs Review 44(1): 57-84.  

Ginwright, Shawn A. 2007. "Black Youth Activism and the Role of Critical Social Capital in Black Community Organizations." American Behavioral Scientist 51(3) 403-418

Gowen, Teresa. 2011. What's Social Capital Got to Do With it?:The Ambiguous (and Overstated) Relationship between Social Capital and Ghetto Underdevelopment. Critical Sociology 37(1): 47-66.

Grant, Heather McLeod and Leslie R. Crutchfield. 2007. "Creating High Impact Nonprofits." Stanford Social Innovations Review Fall: 32-41.

Hahnel, Robin. 2009. "Why the Market Subverts Democracy," The American Behavioral Scientist, 52(7):1006-1022.

Hall, Peter V. and Pamela Stern. 2009. "Reluctant Rural Regionalists." Journal of Rural Studies 25: 67-76.

Hallberg, Peter and Joshua Lund. 2005. "The Business of Apocalypse: Robert Putnam and Diversity," Race & Class 46(4): 53-67

Hampton, Lynn A. 2010. "Covert Racism and the Formation of Social Capital Among a Voluntary Youth Corps." Critical Sociology 36(2): 285-305.

Handley,Donna Miliam. 2008. "Strengthening the Intergovernmental Grant System: Long Term Lessons for the Federal-Local Relationship," Public Administration Review January/February 126-136. 

Hutson, Mala Andre and Sacoby Wilson. 2011.The role of community-based strategies in addressing metropolitan segregation and racial health disparities. Community Development 42(4): 476-493.

Hyra, Derek S. 2006. "Racial Uplift?: Intra-Racial Class Conflict and the Economic Revitalization of Harlem and Bronzville." City & Community 5(1): 71-92.

Kaiser, Michelle, L. 2011. Food Security: An Ecological-Social Analysis to Promote Social Development. Journal of Community Practice 19(1): 62-79. 

Imbroscio, David L. 2006. "Shaming the Inside Game: A Critique of the Liberal Expansionist Approach to Addressing Urban Problems," Urban Affairs Review 42(2): 224-248. 

Jones, Robert Emmet and Shirley A. Rainey. 2006. "Examining Linkages Between Race, Environmental Concerns, Health, and Justice in a Highly Polluted Community of Color," Journal of Black Studiesu 36(4): 473-496.

Kraus, Neil. 2004. "The Significance of Race in Urban Politics: The Limitations of Regime Theory," Race & Society 7:95-111.

Lamore, Rex L., Terry Link and Twyla Blackmond. 2006. "Renewing People and Places: Institutional Investment Policies that Enhance Social Capital and Improve the Built Environment of Distressed Communities." Journal of Urban Affairs 28(5): 429-442.

Landis, John D. and Kirk McClure. 2010. "Rethinking Federal Housing Policy." Journal of the American Planning Association 76(3): 319-348.

LeRoux, Kelly. 2006. "Nonprofits as Civic Intermediaries: The Role of Community-Based Organizations in Promoting Civic Participation." Urban Affairs Review 42(3): 410-422.  

Lewis, James H. and David K. Hamilton. 2011. Race and Regionalism: The Structure of Local Government and Racial Disparity. Urban Affairs Review 47(3): 349-384.

Lichter, Daniel T., Domenico Parisi, Steven Michael Grice and Michael Taquino  2007. "Municipal Underbounding: Annexation and Racial Exclusion in Small Southern Towns," Rural Sociology 72(1): 47-68.

Littrell, Jill and Fred Brooks. 2010. In Defense of the Community Reinvestment Act. Journal of Community Practice 18:417-439.

Lowe, Jeffrey S. 2008. "Limitations of Community Development Partnerships: Cleveland Ohio and Neighborhood Progress, Inc.," Cities 25:37-44.  

Luksetich, William. 2008. "Government Funding and Nonprofit Organizations," Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 37(3): 434-442.

Martin, Heather, Maureen Burner and Frayda Bluestein. 2007. "Documenting Disparity in Minority Contracting: Legal Requirements and Recommendations for Policy Makers." Public Administration Review May/June: 511-520.

Martin, Leslie. 2007. "Fighting for Control: Political Displacement in Atlanta's Gentrifying Neighborhoods," Urban Affairs Review 42(5): 603-628.

Martin, Lori Latrice. Forthcoming. "Strategic Assimilation or Creation of Symbolic Blackness: Middle-Class Blacks in Suburban Context." Journal of African American Studies.

Martin, Lori Latrice. Forthcoming. "Black Asset Ownership: Does Ethnicity Matter?." Social Science Research.

Melendez, Edwin and Lisa J. Servon. 2008. "Reassessing the Role of Housing in Community-Based Urban Development," Housing Policy Debate 18(4): 751-783.  

Mendes, Philip. 2009. "Teaching Community Development to Social Work Students: A Critical Reflection," Community Development Journal 44(2): 248-262.

National Prision Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. 2007. "Abandoned and Abused: Prisioners in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina," Race & Class 49(1): 81-92.

Oakley, Deiere and Keri Burchfield. 2009. "Out of the Projects, Still in the Hood: The Spatial Constraints on Public Housing Residents' Relocation in Chicago." Journal of Urban Affairs Online First.

O'Leary, Rosemary. 2010. "Guerrilla Employees: Should Managers Nurture, Tolerate, or Terminate Them?" Public Administration Review January/Feburary: 8-19.

Patterson, Kelly L. 2004. "A Longitudinal Study of African American Women and the Maintenance of a Healthy Self-Esteem," Journal of Black Psychology 30(3): 307-328. 

Patterson, Kelly L. and Robert M. Silverman. 2007. Building a Better Housing Partnership. Housing & Society 34(2): 187-211.  

Patterson, Kelly L. and Robert Mark Silverman. 2011. How Local Public Administrators, Nonprofit Providers, and Elected Officials Perceive Fair Housing in the Suburbs: An Analysis of Erie County, NY. Housing Policy Debate 21(1): 165-188. 

Paul, Darel E. 2005. "The Local Politics of 'Going Global': Making and Unmaking Minneapolis-St. Paul as a World City," Urban Studies 42(12): 2103-2122. 

Reese, Laura A. 2006. "Economic versus Natural Disasters: If Detroit Had a Hurricane" Economic Development Quarterly 20(3): 219-231.

Rivera, Jason D., DeMond S. Miller, and Deborah D. Wright. 2008. "The Future Effectiveness of Racial-Political Coalitions in American Politics." Journal of Public Management and Social Policy, 14.2: 5-17.

Roscigno, Vincent J, Diana L. Karafin and Griff Tester. 2009. "The Complexities and Processes of Racial Housing Discrimination," Social Problems, 56(1):49-69.

Rose, Samuel W. 2011. A New Way Forward: Native Nations, Nonprofitization, Community Land Trusts, and the Indigenous Shadow State, Nonprofit Policy Forum 2(2)

Ross, Laurie. 2010. "Learning Cultural Humility through Critical Incidents and Central Challenges in Community-Based Research" Journal of Community Practice 18: 315-335.

Rothwell, Jonathan and Douglas S. Massey. 2009. "The Effects of Density Zoning on Racial Segregation in U.S. Urban Areas," Urban Affairs Review 44(6): 779-806.

Rubin, Julia S. 2008. Adaptation or Extinction?: Community Development Loan Funds at a Crossroads. Journal of Urban Affairs 30(2): 191-220. 

Savitch, H.V. 2010. "What Makes a Great City Great: An American Perspective." Cities 27: 42-49.

Schmid, Hillel, Michal Bar and Ronit Nirel. 2008. "Advocacy Activities in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations: Implications for Policy." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 37(4):581-602.  

Schneider, Jo Anne. 2011. Who are the Long Term Unemployed in this Recession and What can be Done to Help Them? Washington DC: George Washington University. (executive summary)

Shlay, Anne B. 2006. "Low-Income Homeownership: American Dream or Dilusion?" Urban Studies 43(3): 511-531.

Silverman, Robert Mark. 2009. "Perceptions of Nonprofit Funding Decisions: A Survey of Local Public Administrators and Executive Directors of Community-Based Housing Organizations (CBHOs)." Public Organization Review.

Silverman, Robert Mark. 2009. "Sandwiched Between Patronage and Bureaucracy: The Plight of Citizen Participation in Community-based Housing Organisations in the US." Urban Studies 46(1): 3-25.

Silverman, Robert Mark. 2008. "CBOs and Affordable Housing," National Civic Review Fall: 26-31.

Silverman, Robert Mark. 2008. "The Influence of Nonprofit Networks on Local Affordable Housing Funding: Findings from a National Survey of Local Public Administrators." Urban Affairs Review 44(1): 126-141.

Silverman, Robert Mark. 2005. "Caught in the Middle: Community Development Corporations (CDCs) and the Conflict Between Grassroots and Instrumental Forms of Citizen Participation," Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 36(2): 35-51.

Silverman, Robert Mark. 2011. Black Real Estate Professionals' Perceptions of Career Opportunities: The Economic Detour Redux. Review of Black Political Economy Online First: 1-18. 

Silverman, Robert Mark, Henry L. Taylor Jr. and Christopher Crawford. 2008. "The Role of Citizen Participation and Action Research in Main Street Revitalization: An Analysis of a Local Planning Project," Action Research 6(1): 69-63.  

Silverman, Robert Mark and Kelly L. Patterson. 2011. The Four Horsemen of the Fair Housing Apocalypse: A Critique of Fair Housing Policy in the USA. Critical Sociology Online First: 1-18. 

Small, Mario Luis, David J. Harding, and Michele Lamont. 2010. "Reconsidering Culture and Poverty." Annals AAPSS Online First.

Stern, Pamela and Peter V. Hall. 2010. "The Proposal Economy." Critique of Anthropology 30(3): 243-264

Stokols, Daniel, Shalini Misra, Miryha Gould Runnerstrom and J Aaron Hipp. 2009. "Psychology in an Age of Ecological Crisis: From Personal Angst to Collective Action," American Psychologist: 181-193.

Sykes, Lori Latrice. 2005. "A Home of Her Own: An Analysis of Asset Ownership for Non-Married Black and White Women." The Social Sciene Journal 42: 273-284. 

Talbert, Patricia Yovonne. 2008. "Using Social Marketing to Increase Breast Cancer Screening Among African American Women: Perspectives form African American Breast Cancer Survivors." International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing 13: 347-362.  

Taylor, Henry Louis Jr. and Linda Greenough McGlynn. 2009. "The Connection: School, Youth, Development and Community Building - The Futures Academy Case." New Directions for Youth Development 122: 19-40.

Taylor, Henry Louis Jr. and Linda McGlynn. 2009. "Solving the Dewey problem: Where Do We Go From Here." The Good Society, 17(2):56-62.

Taylor, Henry Louis Jr. 2008. "Reflections: Connecting the University's Academic Mission to the Regeneration of Distressed Communities." Billie Grace Walker Goodrich Distinguished Lecture, University of Tennessee.

Taylor, Henry Loius Jr. 2006. "Disaster Preparedness, Urban Protection and Low-Income Communities of Color," Paper Presented at the Scholarship on Homeland Security Meeting, Albany, NY.

Taylor, Henry Louis Jr. and Sam Cole. 2001. "Structural Racism and Efforts to Radically Reconstruct the Inner-City Built Environment," Paper Presented at the 43rd Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Meeting. 

Taylor, Henry Louis, Jr. 2010. Building the Road as We Travel It: The Role of Theory and Practice in Developing University Assisted Community-Schools and Distressed Neighborhoods. Keynote Address. The Second Annual Southwest Regional Network Conference, October 25-26, Tulsa, OK.

Tegeler, Phillip (ed). 2011. Finding Common Ground: Coordinating Housing and Education Policy to Promote Integration. New York: PRRAC.

Tighe, J. Rosie. 2010. Public Opinion and Affordable Housing: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Planning Literature 25(1):3-17. 

Watkins-Hayes, Celeste. 2009. "Race-Ing the Bootstrap Climb: Black and Latino Bureaucrats in Post-ReformWelfare Offices," Social Problems 56(2): 285-310.

Wilson, Jake B. 2008. "The Racialized Picket Line: White Workers and Racism in the Southern California Supermarket Strike," Critical Sociology 34(3): 349-367.  

Yin, Li. 2009. "The Dynamics of Residential Segregation in Buffalo: An Agent-Based Simulation," Urban Studies 46(13): 2749-2770.

Zimmerman, Jeffrey. 2008. From Brew Town to Cool Town: Neoliberalism and the Creative City Development Strategy in Milwaukee. Cities 25: 230-242.

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