Objectives

After completing this class you will be able to:

• Analyze the roles of race, gender and poverty in creating and maintaining inequality within and among communities
• Assess the kinds of interventions that are appropriate for addressing the needs, problems and issues that face communities characterized by persistent poverty
• Evaluate the implications of public policies for addressing complex social problems, issues and needs that arise from the interacting systems of race, gender and poverty

Allan

Pp. 265-298 1st Ed.; 263-292 2nd Ed.

Blackshaw

None

Other Readings

Harris, F.C. (2008) Survey on Race, Politics and Society. Center on African American Politics and Society, Columbia University, 7 pp. e-reserve Review the Harris survey prior to class -- a quick read is fine.

Sugrue, T.J. (2005). The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race & Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. Pp. 125-151. e-reserve

Please watch the following video clips in order:

Women at Work WWII 1943

Displacement of Women Workers after World War II

Attitudes toward working women in the 1950s

Consult the list of readings for next week -- come to class with two or three readings that you find interesting selected so that we can "parcel out" the readings.

Additional Materials

Browning, C.R., Burrington, L.A., Tama, L., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2008). Neighborhood structural inequality, collective efficacy, and sexual risk behavior among urban youth. Journal of Health & Social Behavior 49(3), 269-285.

Davidson, R., Mitchell, R. & Hunt, K. (2008). Location, location, location: The role of experience of disadvantage in lay perceptions of area inequalities in health. Health & Place 14(2), 167-181.

Eitle, T.M. & Steffens, M. (2009). Religious affiliation and beliefs about racial inequality: White college students' attitudes about black-white and Native American-white inequality. The Social Science Journal 46(3), 506-520.

Gans, H.J. (2008). Involuntary segregation and the ghetto: Disconnecting process and place. City & Community 7(4), 353-357.

Hopkins, D.J. ( ). Partisan reinforcement and the poor: The impact of context on explanations for poverty. Social Science Quarterly 90(3), 744-764.

Hur, M.H. (2006). Empowerment in terms of theoretical perspectives: Exploring a typology of the process and components across disciplines. Journal of Community Psychology 34(5), 523-540.

McVeigh, R. (2004). Structured ignorance and organized racism in the United States. Social Forces, 82(3), 895-936.

Pager, D. & Shepherd, H. (2008). The sociology of discrimination: Racial discrimination in employment, housing, credit and consumer markets. Annual Review of Sociology, 34( ), 181-209.

Roberts, J.H. (2009). Structural violence and emotional health: A message from Easington, a former mining community in northern England. Anthropology & Medicine 16(1), 37-48.

Schafft, K.A., Jensen, E.B., & Hinrichs, C.C. (2009). Food deserts and overweight schoolchildren: Evidence from Pennsylvania. Rural Sociology 74(2), 153-177.

Schulz, A.J., Zenk, S.N., Israel, B.A. et al. (2008). Do neighborhood characteristics, racial composition and residential stability predict perceptions of stress associated with the physical and social environment? Findings from a multilevel analysis in Detroit. Journal of Urban Health 85(5), 642-661.

Sharp, J.S. & Clark, J.K. (2008). Between the country and the concrete: Rediscovering the rural-urban fringe. City & Community 7(1), 61-79.

Smets, P. (2006). Living apart or together? Multiculturalism at a neighbourhood level. Community Development Journal 41(3), 293-306.

VonReichert, C., McBroom, W.H., Reed, F.W. & Wilson, P.B. (1995). Access to health care and travel for birthing: Native American-white differentials in Montana. Geoforum 26(3), 297-308.

Wyly, E., Moos, M., Hammel, D. & Kabahizi, E. (2009). Cartographies of race and class: Mapping the class-monopoly rents of American subprime mortgage capital. International Journal of Urban & Regional Research 33(2), 332-354.

Zenk, S.N., Schulz, A.J., Israel, B.A. et al. (2005). Neighborhood racial composition, neighborhood poverty, and the spatial accessibility of supermarkets in metropolitan Detroit. American Journal of Public health 95(4), 660-667.