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Has the Suburbanization of Ethnic Economies Created New Opportunities for Income Attainment?
(Wiley, 2018-03)Objective. International migration to the U.S. suburbs has upended many theories of urban inequality and immigrant incorporation, including ethnic economy theory. This paper is the most comprehensive study conducted to ... -
Neither Here nor There? How the New Geography of Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship Disadvantages African Americans
(Oxford Academic, 2018-06-05)Recent research shows that the foreign born utilize both local and long-distance social relationships to become entrepreneurs, affecting immigrants’ chances at upward mobility and their contributions to economic development. ... -
Ethnic Economies in the Age of Retail Chains: Comparing the Presence of Chain-Affiliated and Independently Owned Ethnic Restaurants in Ethnic Neighbourhoods
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-18)Many entrepreneurs in ethnic economies start out by serving fellow community members in their local ethnic neighbourhood. Large corporations, however, are creating retail chains that target the ethnic market and expand ... -
Racial Inequality between Gentrifiers: How the Race of Gentrifiers Affects Retail Development in Gentrifying Neighborhoods
(Wiley, 2019)Research often links gentrification to racial inequality. Nevertheless, scholars know surprisingly little about whether the racial composition of gentrifiers moderates the consequences of gentrification. Few quantitative ... -
The power of Latina/x/o studies beyond the ivory tower and inside prison walls.
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-11-13)Although Blacks and Latinas/xs/os make up about 31% of the US population (13% and 18%, respectively), they make up about 59% of the prison population (40% and 19%, respectively) (Sakala 2014). What power can Latina/x/o ... -
2016 southern sociological society presidential address: Are millennials cracking the gender structure?
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2017)In this article, which grew from my presidential address at the 2016 Southern Sociological Society Meetings, I offer a revision of my theoretical argument that we should conceptualize gender as a social structure. This ... -
Adventures in El Norte: The Identities and Immigration of Unaccompanied Youth
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2017-08)Research on migration typically focuses on adults; yet, each year, thousands of children and adolescents immigrate to the United States independently. The experiences and identities of these young immigrants are complicated ... -
The [Human Resource Management] Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Rise and Feminization of Human Resource Management and Labor Force Equity
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2017-10)Since the late 1970s, the profession of human resource management has grown in both size and influence. The number of human resource managers in 2010 is almost twice the number that existed in 1980. Furthermore, this ... -
Contesting normal: The DSM-5 and psychiatric subjectivation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-06)In this paper, we analyze the debates surrounding the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), psychiatry’s manual of mental disorders. One critical component of the recent DSM-5 debates focuses on ... -
Changes in the gender structure: Inequality at the individual, interactional, and macro dimensions
(Wiley, 2017-09-07)As a society, we’ve made tremendous progress towards gender equality over the past several decades. Yet, there remains significant inequality between women and men. Furthermore, when we look closely at some of the progress ... -
Humanities and social sciences books of ten national disciplinary associations, 2000–2009.
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016-04)Books are the most important medium of communication in the humanities, a major medium in the social sciences, and a central component of academic library collections. This study examined humanities and social sciences ... -
Tax Increment Financing in Chicago, IL, Building Neoliberal Exclusion One School at a Time
(Sage Publications, 2015-01)The article examines how the entrepreneurial municipal government in Chicago, IL has deployed tax increment financing revenues to realize so-called urban education reform through the construction of exclusive neoliberal ... -
Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater: Evaluation of Domain Importance Weighting in Quality of Life Measurements
(Springer Verlag, 2014)Hsieh, C. M. Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater: Evaluation of Domain This paper examined major inconsistencies between claims made and the evidence presented in recent studies on evaluating the role of domain ... -
Neighborhood Ethnic Composition and Resident Perceptions of Safety in European Countries
(University of California Press, 2012-02)Employing data from the 2002 European Social Survey for 21 national representative samples, we provide the first cross-national analysis of the relations between ethnic composition of neighborhood and perception of ...
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