Combating Implicit Racial Bias
March 7, 2014 This feature is part of a new RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the ongoing research of our current class of Visiting Scholars.Though by many accounts the U.S....
View ArticleA New Model for Talking About Race at Work
March 14, 2014 Since the 1960s, the dominant model for fostering diversity and inclusion in the United States has been the “color blind” approach, which emphasizes similarity and assimilation and...
View ArticleNeighborhood Segregation and the Concentration of Poverty
June 17, 2014 A new book from the Foundation, Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools (2014), examines the complex relationships between schools, neighborhood social networks, and larger patterns of...
View ArticleNancy DiTomaso Runner-Up for George R. Terry Book Award
August 7, 2014 On August 3, at its 74th annual meeting, the Academy of Management named The American Non-Dilemma by Nancy DiTomaso (Rutgers) the runner-up for the 2014 George R. Terry Book Award. This...
View ArticleSpotlight on Racial Bias in Policing
August 25, 2014 Over the last two decades, public scrutiny of racial bias in policing has increased significantly. Several high-profile cases in recent years have detailed the use of excessive force...
View ArticleHow Different “Spheres of Influence” Drive Inequality in the U.S. Today
September 12, 2014 In the wake of the police shooting and charged protests that unfolded in Ferguson, Missouri in August, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar argued in TIME that despite the persistence of racial...
View ArticleDoes Skin Color Influence How Minorities Will Vote?
October 2, 2014 In a recent article for the Washington Post, political scientist Spencer Piston argued that lighter-skinned Latinos and Asians in the U.S. are more likely to vote Republican. Noting...
View ArticleAre Lighter-Skinned Latinos More Likely to Identify as Republicans?
James McCann, Visiting Scholar October 3, 2014 In a blog entry earlier this month at the site of the always-engaging Washington Post Monkey Cage, Spencer Piston of Syracuse University suggested that...
View ArticleDiversity and Disparities: Residential Segregation by Income
November 6, 2014 Diversity and Disparities, edited by sociologist John Logan, assembles impressive new studies that interpret the population, labor market, and housing market changes in the U.S. over...
View ArticleDina Okamoto on the Construction of Panethnicity
January 20, 2015 The category “Asian American” currently encompasses more than forty-five Asian-origin groups, from countries ranging from Bangladesh to Vietnam to South Korea. How did one label come...
View ArticleRacial Passing in the U.S. and Mexico in the Early Twentieth Century
January 22, 2015 This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the ongoing research of our current class of Visiting Scholars. During his time in...
View ArticleNew Spring 2015 Books from RSF
February 5, 2015 Below is a first look at new and forthcoming books from the Foundation for Spring 2015. The list includes Beyond Obamacare, a major new analysis of how to reorient the broken health...
View ArticleDeveloping a Racial Mobility Perspective for the Social Sciences
March 3, 2015 This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the ongoing research of our current class of Visiting Scholars.We tend to think of race as...
View ArticleInvestigating the Networks that Supply Guns to Gangs
March 10, 2015 This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the research of our current class of Visiting Scholars. During his time in residence at...
View ArticleThe Lens of Race
April 15, 2015 This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the research of our current class of Visiting Scholars. Ann Morning (New York University)...
View ArticleRSF Author Becky Pettit on the 1.5 Million “Missing” Black Men
April 22, 2015 A sobering new report in the New York Times reveals the disproportionate number of black men “missing” from their communities due to incarceration or early deaths. The Times found that...
View ArticleRSF Author Karl Alexander Discusses Racial and Socioeconomic Inequality in...
May 1, 2015 The death of 25-year-old Baltimore resident Freddie Gray in police custody has drawn renewed scrutiny to the ongoing problem of the excessive use of force by police in African American...
View ArticleHow Federal Drug Laws Shape Local Courts and Prison Sentencing
June 9, 2015 This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the research of our current class of Visiting Scholars. The recent deaths of unarmed African...
View ArticleVisiting Scholar Sean Reardon on “Neighborhood Gap” and Educational...
June 29, 2015 This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the research of our current class of Visiting Scholars. A recent article in the New York...
View ArticleRSF Author Jennifer Lee Interviewed by U.S. Embassy in New Zealand
July 14, 2015 RSF author and former Visiting Scholar Jennifer Lee (University of California, Irvine) recently visited New Zealand to deliver a keynote address at the Population Association of New...
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