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Race and Social Problems
Ralph Bangs • Larry E. Davis
Editors
Race and Social Problems
Restructuring Inequality
Editors
Ralph Bangs Larry E. Davis
Center on Race and Social Problems Center on Race and Social Problems
University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh , PA , USA Pittsburgh , PA , USA
ISBN 978-1-4939-0862-2 ISBN 978-1-4939-0863-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-0863-9
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Contents
Part I Introduction
1 America’s Racial Realities ...................................................................... 3
Ralph Bangs and Larry E. Davis
2 Do Current Race and Ethnicity Concepts
Refl ect a Changing America? ................................................................. 15
Karen Humes and Howard Hogan
3 Intergroup Dialogue: Race Still Matters .............................................. 39
Patricia Gurin, Nicholas Sorensen, Gretchen E. Lopez,
and Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda
Part II Economics
4 Wealth Building in Communities of Color ........................................... 63
Trina R. Williams Shanks, Stephanie Clintonia Boddie,
and Robert Wynn
5 Recent Employment Trends Among Black Men
and Their Policy Implications ................................................................ 79
Harry J. Holzer
6 Challenging the Conventional Understanding
of American Poverty ............................................................................... 93
Mark R. Rank
Part III Education
7 Interventions to Address Racial/Ethnic Disparities
in School Discipline: Can Systems Reform Be Race-Neutral? ........... 107
Russell J. Skiba
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8 Exploring, Understanding, and Closing the Achievement
Gap(s): Efforts from Harlem to Homewood......................................... 125
John M. Wallace
9 High School Quality and Race Differences
in College Achievement ........................................................................... 137
Jason M. Fletcher and Marta Tienda
Part IV Special Topics
10 Family Matters: Strengthening the Fabric of Minority Families ....... 163
Ruth G. McRoy and Amy J. Griffi n
11 Aging and Health in Mexican Americans:
Selected Findings from the Hispanic EPESE ....................................... 171
Kyriakos S. Markides, Raphael Samper-Ternent,
and Soham Al Snih
12 Racial Disproportionality in Prison ...................................................... 187
Alfred Blumstein
13 Resetting Race ......................................................................................... 195
David Kennedy
Part V Health and Mental Health
14 Disparities in Health Care for Minorities:
An Ecological Perspective ...................................................................... 209
Jeannette E. South-Paul
15 Considering the Role of Social Determinants
of Health in Black–White Breast Cancer Disparities .......................... 227
Darrell L. Hudson and Sarah Gehlert
16 Understanding and Addressing Racial/Ethnic
Disparities in Obesity .............................................................................. 247
Monica L. Baskin
17 Mental Health Indicators for African American Males ...................... 267
Oscar A. Barbarin and Emma Sterrett
Index ................................................................................................................. 279
Contributors
Ralph Bangs Center on Race and Social Problems , University of Pittsburgh ,
Pittsburgh , PA , USA
Oscar A. Barbarin Department of Psychology , Tulane University , New Orleans ,
LA , USA
Monica L. Baskin University of Alabama at Birmingham , Birmingham , AL , USA
Alfred Blumstein H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management ,
Carnegie-Mellon University , Pittsburgh , PA , USA
Stephanie Clintonia Boddie University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA , USA
Larry E. Davis Center on Race and Social Problems , University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh , PA , USA
Jason M. Fletcher Yale University , New Haven , CT , USA
Sarah Gehlert Brown School of Social Work , Washington University in St. Louis ,
St. Louis , MO , USA
Amy J. Griffi n Boston College , Chestnut Hill , MA , USA
Patricia Gurin University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , MI, USA
Howard Hogan US Census Bureau , Washington , DC , USA
Harry J. Holzer McCourt School of Public Policy , Georgetown University ,
Washington , DC , USA
Darrell L. Hudson Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis , MO , USA
Karen Humes US Census Bureau , Washington , DC , USA
David Kennedy John Jay College of Criminal Justice , New York , NY , USA
Gretchen Lopez Syracuse University , Syracuse , NY , USA
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Kyriakos S. Markides Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health ,
University of Texas Medical Branch , Galveston , TX , USA
Ruth G. McRoy Graduate School of Social Work, Boston College , Chestnut Hill ,
MA , USA
Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda University of Washington , Seattle , WA , USA
Mark R. Rank George Warren Brown School of Social Work , Washington
University , St. Louis , MO , USA
Raphael Samper-Ternent Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana , Bogota , Colombia
Trina R. Williams Shanks School of Social Work , University of Michigan , Ann
Arbor , MI , USA
Russell J. Skiba Center for Evaluation and Education Policy , Indiana University ,
Bloomington , IN , USA
Soham Al Snih Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health ,
University of Texas Medical Branch , Galveston , TX , USA
Nicholas Sorensen American Institutes for Research , Washington , DC , USA
Jeannette E. South-Paul Department of Family Medicine , School of Medicine,
University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA , USA
Emma Sterrett University of Louisville , Louisville , KY, USA
Marta Tienda Offi ce of Population Research , Princeton University , Princeton ,
NJ , USA
John M. Wallace School of Social Work , University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA ,
USA
Robert Wynn Akamai LLC , Madison , WI , USA
Part I
Introduction
