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All Together Now, One By One: Building Capacity for Urban Education Reform in Promise Neighborhoods

James M.

Children Without a State: A Global Human Rights Challenge

The first book to address children's statelessness and lack of legal status as a human rights issue. Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of the world, with a special need for the protecti

Recognizing Domestic Workers, Regulating Domestic Work: Conceptual, Measurement, and Regulatory Challenges

This article examines the conceptual, measurement, and regulatory challenges of promoting decent work for domestic workers.

Gender Quotas and Female Leadership: A Review

Despite significant advances in education and political participation, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions in politics and business across the globe.

Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces

The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited & Revised

I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years ago, in 1978.

The Challenge of Change: Edward Brooke, the Republican Party, and the Struggle for Redemption

This essay is an exploration of the political rise of politician Edward W. Brooke and his impact on the Republican Party and the black community throughout the 1960s.

Understanding the Emergence and Persistence of Concentrated Urban Poverty

Book abstract: This collection assembles some of the country’s foremost social scientists in one volume.

Obama's Joblessness Dilemma: Fighting Minority Unemployment is Good Economics but Tough Politics

The nation is plagued with one of the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression. Not only have rates of joblessness risen significantly, but long-term joblessness has increased as well.

Moving Teenagers Out of High-Risk Neighborhoods: How Girls Fare Better than Boys

Young people who grow up in high-poverty urban neighborhoods experience crime and violence, resource-poor schools, restricted labor markets, and other forms of deprivation at a much higher level than