The study of housing has a long history in sociology, but since the 1960s, it has been
relatively hidden in a number of sociological subfields and scattered across a range of …

Disparities in food access and the resulting inequities in food security are persistent
problems in cities across the United States. The nation's capital is no exception. The District …

Beginning with WEB Du Bois's The Philadelphia Negro and Ida B. Wells's Southern Horrors,
this review revisits and examines sociological research on urban Black Americans from the …

More than half a century after the first Jim Crow laws were dismantled, the majority of urban
neighborhoods in the United States remain segregated by race. The degree of social and …

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court—and denies
justice to the poor and to working-class people of color The number of Americans arrested …

Traditional explanations of metropolitan development and urban racial segregation have
emphasized the role of consumer demand and market dynamics. In Race, Real Estate, and …

Using a multilevel comparative framework, we propose that politically receptive city contexts
facilitate the viability of marginalized neighborhoods. To illustrate this proposition, we …

The author makes the argument that many racial disparities in health are rooted in political
economic processes that undergird racial residential segregation at the mesolevel …

Despite decades of government reform, the American housing credit system continues to
mirror long‐standing patterns of racial segregation and inequality. Consistent with this trend …

Climate change and increasing natural disasters coupled with years of deferred
maintenance have added pressure to infrastructure in urban areas. Thus, monitoring for …