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 

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.

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

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

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.

 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.

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.

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

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

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.  

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.

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

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.

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. 

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.

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

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.  

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. 

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

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