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RRaallpphh BBaannggss ·· LLaarrrryy EE.. DDaavviiss EEddiittoorrss RRaaccee aanndd SSoocciiaall PPrroobblleemmss RReessttrruuccttuurriinngg IInneeqquuaalliittyy Race and Social Problems Ralph Bangs • Larry E. Davis Editors Race and Social Problems Restructuring Inequality Editors Ralph Bangs Larry E. Davis Center on Race and Social Problems Center on Race and Social Problems University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh , PA , USA Pittsburgh , PA , USA ISBN 978-1-4939-0862-2 ISBN 978-1-4939-0863-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-0863-9 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014947272 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 This work is subject to copyright. 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Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifi c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Contents Part I Introduction 1 America’s Racial Realities ...................................................................... 3 Ralph Bangs and Larry E. Davis 2 Do Current Race and Ethnicity Concepts Refl ect a Changing America? ................................................................. 15 Karen Humes and Howard Hogan 3 Intergroup Dialogue: Race Still Matters .............................................. 39 Patricia Gurin, Nicholas Sorensen, Gretchen E. Lopez, and Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda Part II Economics 4 Wealth Building in Communities of Color ........................................... 63 Trina R. Williams Shanks, Stephanie Clintonia Boddie, and Robert Wynn 5 Recent Employment Trends Among Black Men and Their Policy Implications ................................................................ 79 Harry J. Holzer 6 Challenging the Conventional Understanding of American Poverty ............................................................................... 93 Mark R. Rank Part III Education 7 Interventions to Address Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline: Can Systems Reform Be Race-Neutral? ........... 107 Russell J. Skiba v vi Contents 8 Exploring, Understanding, and Closing the Achievement Gap(s): Efforts from Harlem to Homewood......................................... 125 John M. Wallace 9 High School Quality and Race Differences in College Achievement ........................................................................... 137 Jason M. Fletcher and Marta Tienda Part IV Special Topics 10 Family Matters: Strengthening the Fabric of Minority Families ....... 163 Ruth G. McRoy and Amy J. Griffi n 11 Aging and Health in Mexican Americans: Selected Findings from the Hispanic EPESE ....................................... 171 Kyriakos S. Markides, Raphael Samper-Ternent, and Soham Al Snih 12 Racial Disproportionality in Prison ...................................................... 187 Alfred Blumstein 13 Resetting Race ......................................................................................... 195 David Kennedy Part V Health and Mental Health 14 Disparities in Health Care for Minorities: An Ecological Perspective ...................................................................... 209 Jeannette E. South-Paul 15 Considering the Role of Social Determinants of Health in Black–White Breast Cancer Disparities .......................... 227 Darrell L. Hudson and Sarah Gehlert 16 Understanding and Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Obesity .............................................................................. 247 Monica L. Baskin 17 Mental Health Indicators for African American Males ...................... 267 Oscar A. Barbarin and Emma Sterrett Index ................................................................................................................. 279 Contributors Ralph Bangs Center on Race and Social Problems , University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA , USA Oscar A. Barbarin Department of Psychology , Tulane University , New Orleans , LA , USA Monica L. Baskin University of Alabama at Birmingham , Birmingham , AL , USA Alfred Blumstein H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management , Carnegie-Mellon University , Pittsburgh , PA , USA Stephanie Clintonia Boddie University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA , USA Larry E. Davis Center on Race and Social Problems , University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh , PA , USA Jason M. Fletcher Yale University , New Haven , CT , USA Sarah Gehlert Brown School of Social Work , Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis , MO , USA Amy J. Griffi n Boston College , Chestnut Hill , MA , USA Patricia Gurin University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , MI, USA Howard Hogan US Census Bureau , Washington , DC , USA Harry J. Holzer McCourt School of Public Policy , Georgetown University , Washington , DC , USA Darrell L. Hudson Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis , MO , USA Karen Humes US Census Bureau , Washington , DC , USA David Kennedy John Jay College of Criminal Justice , New York , NY , USA Gretchen Lopez Syracuse University , Syracuse , NY , USA vii viii Contributors Kyriakos S. Markides Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health , University of Texas Medical Branch , Galveston , TX , USA Ruth G. McRoy Graduate School of Social Work, Boston College , Chestnut Hill , MA , USA Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda University of Washington , Seattle , WA , USA Mark R. Rank George Warren Brown School of Social Work , Washington University , St. Louis , MO , USA Raphael Samper-Ternent Pontifi cia Universidad Javeriana , Bogota , Colombia Trina R. Williams Shanks School of Social Work , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , MI , USA Russell J. Skiba Center for Evaluation and Education Policy , Indiana University , Bloomington , IN , USA Soham Al Snih Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health , University of Texas Medical Branch , Galveston , TX , USA Nicholas Sorensen American Institutes for Research , Washington , DC , USA Jeannette E. South-Paul Department of Family Medicine , School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA , USA Emma Sterrett University of Louisville , Louisville , KY, USA Marta Tienda Offi ce of Population Research , Princeton University , Princeton , NJ , USA John M. Wallace School of Social Work , University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh , PA , USA Robert Wynn Akamai LLC , Madison , WI , USA Part I Introduction
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