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Racial Justice
This chapter surveys and discusses literature on racial inequality, regarding its unfairness and undesirable effects on social life. The chapter...
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Racial Inequities in Educational Opportunity: Variation Across Socioeconomic Status
Racial disparities in access to educational opportunity have been an enduring issue in the United States. In recent decades, neighborhood and school...
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The Construction of Municipal Level Racial Equality Policies
Policies that focus on racial issues span multiple areas, requiring the recognition of intersecting inequalities, an intersectoral approach to the...
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Intersectionality of Racial Profiling: A Call for a Broader Understanding
Racial profiling is a form of state violence that has profound and impactful consequences and constitutes a significant social issue. Drawing on...
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Cultural Socialization and Civic Engagement Among Racially Diverse Students of Color: Examining Ethnic-Racial Identity Components as Mediators and Neighborhood Racial Composition as a Moderator
Understanding the factors that promote civic engagement among emerging adult college students is crucial, especially considering its association with...
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Inequality and Democracy in (Southern) Africa
Mainstream analyses of contemporary democratization processes in sub-Saharan Africa have tended to explain their pitfalls and shortcomings by...
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Ethno-racial and Down Payment Disparities in Mortgage Credit Access
Access to homeownership is central to both wealth and ethno-racial stratification. Previous research demonstrates ethno-racial inequality in...
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Race, Gender, and Nativity in the Southwest Economy: An Intersectional Approach to Income Inequality
Economic inequality in the U.S. is significantly influenced by the integration trajectory of diverse immigrant and racial/ethnic minority groups. It...
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Social Isolation, Healthy Habits, Inequality and Mental Health in the United States
The objective of this work is to deepen the analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of mental health, paying special attention to the impact of...
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Racial Othering: structural roots and anti-racist actions from below
With the rise of excessive nationalism in traditionally liberal democratic societies, those identified as ethnoculturally ‘Other’ are often seen as...
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When all you have is a hammer: how social justice distorts what we know about racial disparities
The sociological literature on race operates under the progressive ideological assumption that systemic racism is the predominant cause of racial...
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Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation, Socioeconomic Inequality, and Job Accessibility by Public Transportation Networks in the United States
This paper examines the access that neighborhoods have to jobs via public transit, if it varies by race/ethnicity, and what difference it makes in...
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Colonialism and Social Inequality
This chapter reviews the role of colonialism in the production of social inequality. After a conceptual discussion, the production of coloniality as...
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Knowledge Inequality
This chapter will discuss the knowledge inequality, focusing scientific knowledge and its importance to the production of social and economic...
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Real Estate Platforms, the Housing Search Process, and Racial Residential Stratification
Recent theoretical arguments suggest that, in addition to ongoing, overt racial housing discrimination and unequal access to resources, multiple...
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Racial Residential Segregation and Disparities in Child Protective Services: A Study of Large U.S. Counties
In the U.S., Black children are overrepresented in Child Protective Services (CPS) reports relative to their share of the population. Although a...
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“Say Her Name”: Activism and Racial Justice
This chapter traces the journey of WNBA players becoming political leaders, demanding that the WNBA confront racial issues. Though the WNBA had...
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Racial Inequalities as a Structuring Axis of Social Inequality in Latin America and the Afro-Descendant Population
Racial inequalities constitute one of the structural axes of the social inequality matrix in Latin America and racism is one of the central elements...
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Artificial Intelligence and Inequality
In this chapter, I consider the way in which ‘artificial intelligence’ emerged and developed as a research field, a turning point being the...
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Morality, Inequality, and the Power of Categories
Sociological contributions to empirical understanding of morality may focus on properties of actors and actions, such as their commitments to...