In sharp contrast to many earlier studies, the articles in this symposium encompass a careful discussion of the two major underlying themes of my book,The Declining Significance of Race: (1) the effec
Although an accurate estimate of how the poverty rate has changed since 1964 would show that we are much closer to achieving President Lyndon Johnson’s original goal of eliminating poverty than most r
Legacies of the War on Poverty is a set of nine studies, edited by Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, that assess the successes and failures of the diverse strategies that Johnson and his successors
In his 1965 report on the black family, Daniel Patrick Moynihan highlighted the rising fraction of black children growing up in households headed by unmarried mothers.
It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success.
Alice Goffman’s book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, is one of those rare publications by a sociologist that creates an immediate splash both within and outside academia.
Through the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracks their progress over time.
On the Run is an engrossing book that should also become an ethnographic classic. It describes the world of young jobless black men who have seldom finished high school.
This article responds to Loïc Wacquant's elaboration of his overarching theoretical framework in his stimulating article ‘Marginality, Ethnicity and Penality in the Neo-liberal City: An Analytic Carto
Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed This article examines what legal reforms are needed for home-based producers, st
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