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 

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

Past Featured Papers

Avery, Robert B., Rapheal W. Bostic and Glenn B. Canner. 2005. "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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.  

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.

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. 

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.  

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, 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.  

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. 

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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