Quantcast
Channel: Britain's War on Poverty
Browsing all 50 articles
Browse latest View live

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 Article



A 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 Article

Neighborhood 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 Article

Nancy 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 Article

Spotlight 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 Article


How 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 Article

Does 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 Article

Are 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 Article


Diversity 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 Article


Dina 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 Article

Racial 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 Article

New 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 Article

Developing 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 Article


Investigating 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 Article

The 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 Article


RSF 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 Article

RSF 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 Article


How 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 Article

Visiting 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 Article

RSF 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...

View Article
Browsing all 50 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images