LIVING TOGETHER William Julius Wilson and Richard P. Taub, There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America. New York: Knopf, 2006, 228 pages, ISBN: 0-394-57936-4, Cloth, $23.95. Camille Zubrinsky Charles, Won't You Be My Neighbor? Race, Class, and Residence in Los Angeles. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006, 246 pages, ISBN: 0-87154-162-0, Cloth, $35.00. Gregory D. Squires and Charis E. Kubrin, Privileged Places: Race, Residence, and the Structure of Opportunity. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2006, 183 pages, ISBN: 1-58826-449-1, Cloth, $25.00.

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Denton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Russell Sage Foundation ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Racial/Ethnic Hierarchy and Urban Labor Market Inequality: Four Poignant Historical Cases

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 662-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvatore J. Restifo ◽  
Vincent J. Roscigno ◽  
Lora A. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Labor Market Inequality ◽  
Compositional Diversity ◽  
Spatially Varying ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Group Inequality ◽  
Urban Labor Market

The sociological literature, although rich on the topic of racial/ethnic hierarchy, often overlooks its spatially varying nature relative to group tensions and inequality. In this article, we address this gap by drawing on and analyzing four historically important U.S. urban cases (i.e., Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City) that reflect both compositional diversity and significant variation in racial/ethnic group sizes. Our analyses, which draw on U.S. Census microdata and content–coded newspaper reports (1910–1930), demonstrate considerable consistency in racial/ethnic labor market hierarchies, yet divergences in levels of labor market inequality. Specifically, our aggregate analyses and cross–city comparisons of sectoral representations and occupational returns reveal the importance of place–specific processes—processes consistent with what spatially sensitive queuing perspectives suggest about the bolstering of minority prospects in contexts where subordinated groups come to numerically dominate. As suggested by competition/threat perspectives, however, such gains from queuing are undermined at least to some extent by city–specific racial/ethnic antagonisms, industry–level segregation, and group closure. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for various streams of research on group inequality, labor market hierarchies, and spatial understandings of how they unfold across urban spaces.

An Examination of Racial Disparities in Misdemeanor Marijuana Possession Arrests Following Reforms in Four U.S. Jurisdictions

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristyn A. Jones ◽  
Darren Agboh ◽  
Meredith Patten ◽  
Preeti Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Black People ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Prince George's County ◽  
Arrest Rates ◽  
Rate Of Decline ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Abstract Using data from New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Prince George’s County, MD; and Louisville, KY, we examine trends in racial disparities in the enforcement of misdemeanor marijuana possessionbefore and after marijuana reforms. In these jurisdictions, we find that changes to marijuana enforcement were associated with reductions in arrest rates for Black, Hispanic, and White people, though the rate of decline varied by jurisdiction. Black people were arrested at the highest rates in relation to their proportion of the population. In three of the four jurisdictions where issuing criminal citations was an enforcement option, racial/ethnic disparities in arrest rates increased post-reforms; legalization and the option to issue a civil citation were associated with reductions in racial/ethnic disparities. Trends in this study provide policymakers with information to implement effective reforms that target racial disparities in marijuana possession arrests.

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