Joe R. Feagin

The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places.

Much literature on contemporary U.S. racial relations tends to view black middle-class life as substantially free of traditional discrimination. Drawing primarily on 37 in-depth interviews with black middle-class respondents in several cities, I analyze public accommodations and other public-place discrimination. Focus on three aspects: (1) the sites of discrimination, (2) the character of discriminatory actions; and (3) the range of coping responses by blacks to discrimination. Documenting substantial barriers facing middle-class blackAmericans today, I suggest the importance of the individuals and the groups accumulated discriminatory experiences for understanding the character and impact of modern racial discrimination.

A Case for the case study

Since the end of World War II, social science research has become increasingly quantitative in nature. A Case for the Case Study provides a rationale for an alternative to quantitative reserach: the close investigation of single instances of social phenomena. The first section of the book contains an overview of the central methodological issues involved in the use of the case study method. Then, well-known scholars describe how they undertook case study research in order to undersand changes in church involvement, city life, gender roles, white-collar crimes, family structure, homelessness, and other types of social experience. Each contributor contronts several key questions: What does the case study tell us that other approaches cannot? To what extent can one generalize from the study of a single case or of a highly limited set of cases? Does case study work provide the basis for postulating broad principles of social structure and behavior? The answers vary, but the consensus is that the opportunity to examine certain kinds of social phenomena in depth enables social scientists to advance greatly our empirical understanding of social life. The contributors are Leon Anderson, Howard M. Bahr, Theodore Caplow, Joe R. Feagin, Gilbert Geis, Gerald Handel, Anthonly M. Orum, Andree F. Sjoberg, Gideon Sjoberg, David A. Snow, Ted R. Vaughan, R. Stephen Warner, Christine L. Williams, and Norma Williams.

The Continuing Significance of Racism: Discrimination against Black Students in White Colleges.

In the last few years we have seen a growing concern among academic administrators and educational researchers about Black student enrollment and attrition rates. A number of survey studies (Astin, 1977, 1982) have found that college enrollment and graduation rates for Black Americans have declined in many programs. In a recent major review of the literature, George Keller (19881989), professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and recipient of the Casey Award in education planning, examined nine books, reports, and special journal issues devoted to assessing the problems of minority access and achievement in higher education. Kellers analysis (pp. 50-54), representative of much social science and policy analysis of minority problems, notes the extensive discussion of minority student attrition and suggests 10 reasons that are documented in the literature he reviewed:

Discrimination American style : institutional racism and sexism

Why, and how, are some people -- women, blacks, and other minorities -- discriminated against? The answers to these questions are important because an understanding of the causes and operation of discrimination is essential to finding effective ways to counteract and eradicate discrimination from our society. While the popular view holds that prejudice and bigotry lie behind racist and sexist discrimination, this book goes beyond that view to expose other roots of the problem that are more subtle and difficult to combat. The authors describe in detail the mechanics and effects of institutionalized discrimination in employment, housing, health and social services, education, politics, and the courts.

Racing research, researching race : methodological dilemmas in critical race studies

A white woman studies upper-class eighth grade girls at her alma mater on Long Island and finds a culture founded on misinformation about its own racial and class identity. A black American researcher is repeatedly assumed by many Brazilian subjects to be a domestic servant or sex worker. Racing Race, Researching Race is the first volume of its kind to explore how ideologies of race and racism intersect with nationality and gender to shape the research experience. Critical work in race studies has not adequately addressed how racial positions in the field--as inflected by nationality, gender, and age--generate numerous methodological dilemmas. Racing Research, Researching Race begins to fill this gap by infusing critical race studies with more empirical work and suggesting how a critical race perspective might improve research methodologies and outcomes. The contributors to the volume encompass a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds including anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, women=s studies, political science, and Asian American studies.

How Black Students Cope with Racism on White Campuses.

MOST ASSESSMENTS OF the state of African-American students in predominantly white colleges and universities have relied heavily on numbers, such as enrollment rates, grade point averages, and graduation rates. Yet a deeper examination of the experiences of black students in these places requires something more than numbers gathered in school records and surveys or in classroom testing. We need to listen closely to what black American students tell us about what happens to them and how they feel, act, and think.

Using racial and ethnic concepts : The critical case of very young children

We examine the racial and ethnic concepts and related actions of very young children in a preschool setting. Breaking with much of the conventional literature on the cognitive development of preschool children, we argue that young children engage in interaction involving clear and often sophisticated understandings of racial and ethnic concepts and meanings. We discuss; (1) how racial and ethnic concepts are used to exclude or include others; (2) how racial or ethnic concepts are used to define oneself and others; (3) how power and control link to racial and ethnic understandings; and (4) how adults misperceive the racial and ethnic language and activities of children

The Capitalist city : global restructuring and community politics

I. Introduction II. Theoretical perspectives: The global economy, the state, and the city. III. Economic restructuring in cities: A global perspective. IV. State responses to global restructuring. V. Local responses to global restructuring, community, household and urban politics. Contributors: Michael Peter Smith, Joe R Feagin, Michael Timberlake, Norman J Glickman, Richard Tardanico, David C Perry, Saskia Sassen-Koob, Richard Child Hill, Edward W Soja, Patricia Anne Wilson, Desmond S King, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Helen Safa, June Nash, Enzo Mingione, Susan S Fainstein, Margit Mayer, John Walton.

The new urban paradigm : critical perspectives on the city

Chapter 1 The New Urban Paradigm: Urban Social Science for the Twenty-First Century Part 2 I. Cities in Global Perspective Chapter 3 Cities and the New International Division of Labor: An Overview Chapter 4 The Global Context of Metropolitan Growth: Houston and the Oil Industry Chapter 5 Extractive Regions in Developed Countries: A Comparative Analysis of the Oil Capitals/ Houston and Aberdeen Part 6 II. Powerful Economic Actors in City Development Chapter 7 Cities in Conflict Chapter 8 Urban Real Estate Speculation: Implications for Social Science and Urban Planning Chapter 9 Irrationality in Real Estate Investment: The Case of Houston Part 10 III. The Political Dimension of City Development Chapter 11 The Corporate Center Strategy: The State in Central Cities Chapter 12 Arenas of Conflict: Zoning and Land-Use Reform in Critical Political-Economic Perspective Chapter 13 Are Planners Collective Capitalists? The Cases of Aberdeen and Houston Part 14 IV. Race, Racism, and City Development Chapter 15 Slavery Unwilling to Die: The Background of Black Oppression in the 1980s Chapter 16 The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places Chapter 17 The Continuing Significance of Racism: Discrimination Against Black Students in White Colleges Chapter 18 Changing Black Americans to Fit a Racist System? Part 19 V. Review and Reprise Chapter 20 Urban Sociology: Feagin Style Chapter 21 The New Urban Paradigm: Feagins Contributions

Home-Defense and the Police: Black and White Perspectives

order and legality in a modern society. Essential to the effectiveness of the police in this regard is the attitude of the private citizen. Emphasizing that the police provide one of the most basic social services, Reiss and Bordua (1967: 28) have suggested that citizen dependence on the police for protection against crime and violence, not on self-help, is critical to maintaining order and legality in a society: &dquo;One way the police serve the cause of legality, therefore, is to assure by their presence and performance that a set of rules prevails which make it unnecessary for the citizen to be continually prepared to defend himself or his property.&dquo; Moreover, the extent to which people feel secure in their own homes and are willing to leave the protection of home and family to the government-established police forces may well be one important indicator of the extent to which a given human community can be viewed as an integrated &dquo;state.&dquo;