The University of Chicago Department of Sociology

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The University of Chicago Department of Sociology

Graduate Scholarship

Sociology Dissertations
Race and Ethnicity

2006 Martinez, Sylvia
Explaining Patterns of Disengagement of Mexican American Adolescents in High School

2005 Hyra, Derek Scott
Race, Politics and Neighborhood Revitalization: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville

2004 Wagmiller, Robert Lee
Lost Opportunity: Racial Unrest, Violent Crime, and the Emergence of a Jobless Urban Underclass

2003 Timberlake, Jeffrey Martin
Effects of Residential Segregation on Racial Inequality in Children's Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty and Affluence

2001 Dixon-Reeves, Regina
The Survey of the Characteristics and Dimensions of Mentoring: An Investigation of the Mentoring Experiences of African American Graduate Students in Departments of Sociology

2001 Young, Nicholas Maurice
Social Structure and Entrepreneurial Opportunity: The Case of African Americans

2000 Morenoff, Jeffrey David
Unraveling Paradoxes of Public Health: Neighborhood Environments and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Birth Outcomes

2000 Rosenfeld, Michael John
The Demographics of Mexican American Assimilation

1999 Flippen, Chenoa Anne
Race and Ethnic Inequality in Housing Wealth: A Multi-Level Approach

1998 Kefalas, Maria Joan
The Last Garden: Culture and Place in a White, Working-Class Chicago Neighborhood

1998 Birgen, Judith Ann
The Role of Social and Self Organization in Success among African American Catholics: A Case Study of Saint Sabina Church

1998 Carr, Patrick Joseph
Keeping Up Appearances: Informal Social Control in a White Working Class Neighborhood in Chicago

1998 Moore, Mignon Renee
Family and Community Correlates of Sexual Debut and Pregnancy among African-American Female Adolescents in High-Poverty Neighborhoods

1998 Smith, Sandra Susan
Employment Status and Outcomes as a Function of Social Capital: The Case of Whites, Blacks, and Latinos in the Greater Boston Area

1997 Kao, Grace Yu Pin
Oreos, Coconuts, and Bananas: Race and Ethnic Differences in Conceptions of Success Among Adolescents

1997 Pattillo-McCoy, Mary Elizabeth
At the Crossroads: A Qualitative Study of Social Organization in a Black Middle Class Neighborhood

1997 Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi
American Project: A Historical-Ethnography of Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, 1962-1995

1996 Brush, Paula Stewart
Representations of Identity and Social Structure in Black Women's Autobiography, 1960-1994

1996 Ellingson, Stephen James
Discourse, Action, and Social Change: The Politics of Race, Slavery, and Abolitionism in Pre-Civil War America

1996 Hsueh, Yung Chang
Race/Ethnic Differentials in Employment and Earnings Dynamics over Short Duration

1996 Young, Alford Augustus Jr.
Pathways, Possibilities, and Potential: Young Black Men and Their Conceptions of Future Life Chances

1995 Krogh, Marilyn Carlstrom
Changes in the Chicago Economy and the Employment of Black Men in the Inner City

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