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Is There a Constitutional Remedy for the Entrapment of the Urban Underclass?
Dawinder S. Sidhu, June 2013
Race and Ethnicity, Cities and Regions, Antipoverty Policy, Courts & Court Decisions
Meeting the Challenge of Developing the Best American Teachers in a Culturally Diverse World
Flynn Ross, June 2013
Race and Ethnicity, School Reform, Adult Training Programs
Are Mexican Immigrants Becoming Full Participants in American Society?
Tomás Roberto Jiménez and Helen B. Marrow, May 2013
Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Children & Families, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
What Happens if the Supreme Court Weakens Voting Rights?
Gary May, May 2013
Race and Ethnicity, Voters and Voter Participation, Social Movements, Courts & Court Decisions
Black Politics and the Origins of America's Prison Boom
Michael Javen Fortner, April 2013
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Cities and Regions
The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
Ira Katznelson, April 2013
Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Public Sector Reforms
Why the Decline of Catholic Schools Matters
Carol Ann MacGregor, March 2013
Religion, Race and Ethnicity, K-12 Education
Unfair Punishment at School Can Push America's Minority Students into Troubled Lives
Michael Rocque, March 2013
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, School Reform, K-12 Education
How Democrats and Republicans Can Draw Uncommitted Minorities into Politics
Zoltan Hajnal and Taeku Lee, December 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Voters and Voter Participation
Promoting Civic Habits in Multi-Cultural Schools
Ashley Elizabeth Anglin, December 2012
Race and Ethnicity, School Reform, K-12 Education, Civic Engagement
Understanding How Mexican Immigrants Become Full Members of American Society
Elizabeth S. Ackert, December 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions
Lessons from Hawaii's Efforts to Use "Race to the Top" to Boost Achievement of Native Hawaiian School Children
Morgen Johansen, November 2012
Race and Ethnicity, School Reform, K-12 Education
Under Democratic Presidents, Minorities Make Economic Gains - And So Do Whites
Zoltan Hajnal and Jeremy D. Horowitz, November 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
How U.S. Social Indicators are Skewed by the Failure to Count Rising Numbers of Prisoners
Becky Pettit, October 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
How Mass Imprisonment Burdens the United States with a Distrustful Civic Underclass
Vesla Mae Weaver, October 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Civic Engagement
The Uneven Presence of Women and Minorities in America's State Legislatures - And Why It Matters
Beth Reingold, October 2012
Women, Race and Ethnicity, Civic Engagement
Will the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Survive?
Richard M. Valelly, September 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Voters and Voter Participation, Election 2012, Courts & Court Decisions
Affirmative Action and Its Future
John D. Skrentny, August 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Higher Education
The Worrisome Role of Racial Prejudice in Public Support for Tough Criminal Penalties
Steven E. Barkan, July 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
How Neighborhoods Can Help Poor Black Women Fight AIDS
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, May 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Antipoverty Policy
Race and Penalties at the Frontlines of Welfare Reform
Joe Soss, May 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Antipoverty Policy
Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State
Cybelle Fox, April 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Social Security, Antipoverty Policy
$2-a-Day Poverty in the United States
Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer, April 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Antipoverty Policy
The Disadvantages of America’s Prison Boom
Becky Pettit and Bruce Western, March 2012
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
Happy Talk about Diversity Avoids Difficult Racial Issues
Douglas Hartmann, March 2012
Race and Ethnicity
Children of Imprisoned Parents – Unintended Casualties of the Prison Boom
Christopher Wildeman, November 2011
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
Contacting Disadvantaged Citizens Turns Them into Voters
Carrie Ann LeVan, November 2011
Race and Ethnicity, Voters and Voter Participation, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy