Cedric Herring
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 99521 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cedric Herring |
| NOMBRES | Cedric |
| APELLIDO | Herring |
| FIRMA | HERRING C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1873-426X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 912 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
"Complaint-Oriented "Services
This article argues that the expansion of shelter and welfare provisions for the homeless can lead to increased criminalization of homeless people in public spaces. First, I document how repression of people experiencing homelessness by the police in San Francisco neighborhoods increased immediately after the opening of new shelters. Second, I reveal how shelter beds are used as a privileged tool of the police to arrest, cite, and confiscate prop…
Concentrated Poverty
Concentrated poverty refers to a spatial density of socioeconomic deprivation. The concept and term are primarily utilized in US policy and scholarship to refer to areas of “extreme” or “high” poverty defined as areas with “40 percent of the tract population living below the federal poverty threshold.” Concentrated poverty has taken on multiple conceptual formations, being used as an analytic measure, a designation of territory, and a causal vari…
Complaint-Oriented Policing
Over the past 30 years, cities across the United States have adopted quality-of-life ordinances aimed at policing social marginality. Scholars have documented zero-tolerance policing and emerging tactics of therapeutic policing in these efforts, but little attention has been paid to 911 calls and forms of third-party policing in governing public space and the poor. Drawing on an analysis of 3.9 million 911 and 311 call records and participant obs…
Access to Higher Education of Afro-Peruvians
Despite recent efforts by the Peruvian government to rectify centuries of injustice against Afro-Peruvians, not much is known about the relative influence of discrimination and social origins on Afro-Peruvians' access to higher education. Using data from the 2014 Specialized Study of Afro-Peruvian Population and logistic regression, the authors examine the influence of skin color and social origins on access to higher education for Afro-Peruvians…
Pervasive Penality
A growing literature examines the extent to which the criminal justice system perpetuates poverty and inequality. This research examines how anti-homeless laws produce various forms of police interactions that fall short of arrest, yet have wide-ranging impacts on the urban poor. Our analysis draws on a citywide survey of currently and recently homeless people, along with 43 in-depth interviews, to examine and reveal the mechanisms through which …
Race and the Accumulation of Wealth
Using data from the 1989–2009 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this research examines racial differences in wealth accumulation over the life course. We ask: (1) How have racial differences in wealth changed over time? (2) Do racial wealth gaps change over the life course? (3) Are racial gaps in net worth expanding, contracting, or staying the same over time and over the life course? and (4) Do these patterns differ by cohort? The analysis is info…
Is Diversity Still a Good Thing
In this reply to Stojmenovska, Bol, and Leopold's comment on my 2009 ASR article, "Does Diversity Pay?" I offer an updated analysis of the relationship between racial and gender diversity in business organizations and such business outcomes as sales revenue, number of customers, market share, and relative profits. Despite the claims in their comment, an updated analysis supports the business case for diversity perspective. Racial and gender diver…
Living Theory
This article details the principles and practices animating an “ethnographic” method of teaching social theory. As opposed to the traditional “survey” approach that aims to introduce students to the historical breadth of social thought, the primary objective of teaching ethnographically is to cultivate students as participant observers who interpret, adjudicate between, and practice social theories in their everyday lives. Three pedagogical princ…
Wealth Inequality in Black and White
The roots and implications of the USA's homeless tent cities
Since the turn of the 21st century, several US cities have witnessed the resurgence of large-scale homeless encampments. This paper explains how and why such encampments emerged during a period of national economic expansion through a comparative study of encampments in Fresno, California and Seattle, Washington. Contrary to the widespread media coverage of tent cities as a consequence of the most recent recession, the paper argues they are inste…
Credit Where Credit is Due
This research seeks to understand the degree to which credit scores of new business startups are influenced by racial or gender discrimination. It examines the degree to which access to business credit lines is influenced by racial and gender-related factors that go beyond would-be borrowers’ credit scores. Using credit data from new startups, the analysis finds that, when controlling for firm and human capital characteristics, Black-owned startu…
The New Logics of Homeless Seclusion
Since the late 1990s, scores of American cities have witnessed the re–emergence of large–scale homeless encampments for the first time since the Great Depression. Commonly portrayed as rooted in the national economic downturn and functionally undifferentiated, this paper demonstrates that large–scale encampments are rather shaped by urban policies and serve varied and even contradictory roles in different localities. Drawing on interviews and obs…
Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism
Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism not only provides fresh theoretical insights into the new forms of race and racism, it also provides evidence of and policy solutions to address these seemingly intractable forms of discrimination and racial disparities. These issues are tackled by some of the nation’s most prominent race and public policy scholars. In addition, the volume has contributions by some of the most innovative up-and-coming voices t…
Does critical diversity pay in higher education? Race, gender, and departmental rankings in research universities
Critical diversity" is the equal inclusion of people from varied backgrounds on a parity basis throughout all ranks and divisions of an organization. The critical diversity perspective argues that as organizations become more diverse, they benefit relative to their competitors. This is in contrast to other accounts that view diversity as either inconsequential to success or actually detrimental. Using data from the 2011 National Academy of Scienc…
Critical Diversity and Departmental Rankings in Sociology
From Affirmative Action to Diversity
This article provides an overview of changes in the discourse about inclusion as it has evolved from debates about affirmative action to various notions of diversity. The article seeks movement away from 'colorblind diversity' and 'segregated diversity' toward a 'critical diversity' that examines all forms of social inequality, oppression, and stratification that revolve around issues of difference. It lays out concrete strategies for doing so: (…
Does Diversity Pay
The value-in-diversity perspective argues that a diverse workforce, relative to a homogeneous one, is generally beneficial for business, including but not limited to corporate profits and earnings. This is in contrast to other accounts that view diversity as either nonconsequential to business success or actually detrimental by creating conflict, undermining cohesion, and thus decreasing productivity. Using data from the 1996 to 1997 National Org…
Segregated jobs or ethnic niches
Hurricane Katrina and the Racial Gulf
Americans like to believe that "we are all in the same boat" when disaster strikes. Using a Du Boisian framework, this article provides a multivariate analysis of survey data from victims of Hurricane Katrina to determine whether there were racial differences in their perceptions about rescue and relief efforts. The data collected from survivors show that Blacks and Whites drew very different lessons from the tragedy. There was widespread agreeme…
Open for Business in the Black Metropolis
Sacrificing for the cause
Bleaching out the color line
Being Black, Living in the Red
Being Black, Living in the Red demonstrates that many differences between blacks and whites stem not from race but from economic inequalities that have accumulated over the course of American history. Property ownership - as measured by net worth - reflects this legacy of economic oppression. The racial discrepancy in wealth holdings leads to advantages for whites in the form of better schools, more desirable residences, higher wages, and more op…
Lost in the Storm
Contemporary sociologists implicitly have assumed that the race-class debate has been resolved: Blacks tend to fall in one of two categories-"the black middle class" or the "truly disadvantaged." However, lost amid the controversies over the supposed privileges of the former and the problems of the latter is the plight of the "forgotten" category of blacks: the black working class. Accordingly, we present a sociological analysis of the black work…
Empowerment in Chicago
Empowerment in Chicago asks and answers the hard questions about Chicago's early experience with the EZ process. It provides an overview and history of the Empowerment Zone initiative as an economic development strategy. It provides a wealth of information about economic growth, job development, quality of life, and citizen participation in Chicago's Empowerment Zone, Enterprise Communities, and other communities in the Chicago metropolitan area.…
Skin Tone and Stratification in the Black Community
Data from the National Survey of Black Americans (NSBA)(1979-80) are used to examine the effects of skin-tone variations of blacks on educational attainment, occupation, and income, net of such antecedent factors as parental socioeconomic status and such contemporaneous factors as sex, region of residence, urbanicity, age, and marital status. The findings are that not only does complexion have significant net effects on stratification outcomes, b…
Does Diversity Pay
The value-in-diversity perspective argues that a diverse workforce, relative to a homogeneous one, is generally beneficial for business, including but not limited to corporate profits and earnings. This is in contrast to other accounts that view diversity as either nonconsequential to business success or actually detrimental by creating conflict, undermining cohesion, and thus decreasing productivity. Using data from the 1996 to 1997 National Org…
Complaint-Oriented Policing
Over the past 30 years, cities across the United States have adopted quality-of-life ordinances aimed at policing social marginality. Scholars have documented zero-tolerance policing and emerging tactics of therapeutic policing in these efforts, but little attention has been paid to 911 calls and forms of third-party policing in governing public space and the poor. Drawing on an analysis of 3.9 million 911 and 311 call records and participant obs…
Discrimination over the Life Course
Using data from the 1940-1980 United States Microdata Extract File and the Current Population Survey's 1990 Annual Demographic File, this study examines three competing explanations of the disparity in black and white male earnings over the life course. The “legacy of discrimination” explanation suggests that current racial disparities in earnings reflect nothing more than past discrimination against older blacks, and that the earnings of younger…
The New Logics of Homeless Seclusion
Since the late 1990s, scores of American cities have witnessed the re–emergence of large–scale homeless encampments for the first time since the Great Depression. Commonly portrayed as rooted in the national economic downturn and functionally undifferentiated, this paper demonstrates that large–scale encampments are rather shaped by urban policies and serve varied and even contradictory roles in different localities. Drawing on interviews and obs…
Lost in the Storm
Contemporary sociologists implicitly have assumed that the race-class debate has been resolved: Blacks tend to fall in one of two categories-"the black middle class" or the "truly disadvantaged." However, lost amid the controversies over the supposed privileges of the former and the problems of the latter is the plight of the "forgotten" category of blacks: the black working class. Accordingly, we present a sociological analysis of the black work…
Wealth Inequality in Black and White
The roots and implications of the USA's homeless tent cities
Since the turn of the 21st century, several US cities have witnessed the resurgence of large-scale homeless encampments. This paper explains how and why such encampments emerged during a period of national economic expansion through a comparative study of encampments in Fresno, California and Seattle, Washington. Contrary to the widespread media coverage of tent cities as a consequence of the most recent recession, the paper argues they are inste…
From Affirmative Action to Diversity
This article provides an overview of changes in the discourse about inclusion as it has evolved from debates about affirmative action to various notions of diversity. The article seeks movement away from 'colorblind diversity' and 'segregated diversity' toward a 'critical diversity' that examines all forms of social inequality, oppression, and stratification that revolve around issues of difference. It lays out concrete strategies for doing so: (…
"Complaint-Oriented "Services
This article argues that the expansion of shelter and welfare provisions for the homeless can lead to increased criminalization of homeless people in public spaces. First, I document how repression of people experiencing homelessness by the police in San Francisco neighborhoods increased immediately after the opening of new shelters. Second, I reveal how shelter beds are used as a privileged tool of the police to arrest, cite, and confiscate prop…
Segregated jobs or ethnic niches
Pervasive Penality
A growing literature examines the extent to which the criminal justice system perpetuates poverty and inequality. This research examines how anti-homeless laws produce various forms of police interactions that fall short of arrest, yet have wide-ranging impacts on the urban poor. Our analysis draws on a citywide survey of currently and recently homeless people, along with 43 in-depth interviews, to examine and reveal the mechanisms through which …
Is Diversity Still a Good Thing
In this reply to Stojmenovska, Bol, and Leopold's comment on my 2009 ASR article, "Does Diversity Pay?" I offer an updated analysis of the relationship between racial and gender diversity in business organizations and such business outcomes as sales revenue, number of customers, market share, and relative profits. Despite the claims in their comment, an updated analysis supports the business case for diversity perspective. Racial and gender diver…
Preference or Necessity? Changing Work Roles of Black and White Women, 1973-1990
Etude des determinants economiques et sociaux de l'entree des femmes americaines de race blanche et noire sur le marche du travail. Les motivations de ces femmes varient selon la race, l'âge, le statut marital, le cadre familial, et se situent sur le plan de la necessite (necessite economique d'avoir un travail) ou de la preference (volonte d'exercer une activite professionnelle)
Living Theory
This article details the principles and practices animating an “ethnographic” method of teaching social theory. As opposed to the traditional “survey” approach that aims to introduce students to the historical breadth of social thought, the primary objective of teaching ethnographically is to cultivate students as participant observers who interpret, adjudicate between, and practice social theories in their everyday lives. Three pedagogical princ…
Bleaching out the color line
Convergence, Polarization, or What
Wilson (1978, 1987) argues that since the 1960s, race has become a less important determinant of the life chances and outlooks of individual blacks than has sociocconomic status; moreover, he suggests that as race has declined in its significance, the black community has become more socioeconomically differentiated and polarized. Using data from the 1964 through 1984 American National Election Surveys, this article examines hypotheses derived fro…
Credit Where Credit is Due
This research seeks to understand the degree to which credit scores of new business startups are influenced by racial or gender discrimination. It examines the degree to which access to business credit lines is influenced by racial and gender-related factors that go beyond would-be borrowers’ credit scores. Using credit data from new startups, the analysis finds that, when controlling for firm and human capital characteristics, Black-owned startu…
Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in America
Using data from the 1983–1987 General Social Surveys, this paper investigates the degree to which being self-employed is more prevalent within certain racial and ethnic groups than others. Those of Jewish ancestry were more likely than others to be self-employed; those from “racial” ethnic groups were generally less likely than white ethnics to be self-employed. In addition, being older, more educated, from a higher-income family, male, from the …
Hurricane Katrina and the Racial Gulf
Americans like to believe that "we are all in the same boat" when disaster strikes. Using a Du Boisian framework, this article provides a multivariate analysis of survey data from victims of Hurricane Katrina to determine whether there were racial differences in their perceptions about rescue and relief efforts. The data collected from survivors show that Blacks and Whites drew very different lessons from the tragedy. There was widespread agreeme…
Does race matter? The determinants and consequences of self-reports of discrimination victimization
Race and the Accumulation of Wealth
Using data from the 1989–2009 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this research examines racial differences in wealth accumulation over the life course. We ask: (1) How have racial differences in wealth changed over time? (2) Do racial wealth gaps change over the life course? (3) Are racial gaps in net worth expanding, contracting, or staying the same over time and over the life course? and (4) Do these patterns differ by cohort? The analysis is info…
Open for Business in the Black Metropolis
Sacrificing for the cause
Labor Market Participation among Young Adults
This study models culture of poverty explanations, earlier experiences that tend to restrict opportunities, demographic effects representing differential rates of participation by social groups, and health and marijuana use variables indicating the influence of individual life- style differences as predictors of the rate of labor market entry, promotion, and dismissal among subjects from early adolescence to young adulthood. The data are drawn fr…
Inside and Outside the For-Profit Nursing Home
This paper offers a conceptual model for understanding how and in what ways externally determined factors affect power arrangements within a for-profit nursing home setting. Specifically, this paper links the activities of nursing homes as profit seekers to federal legislation and the activities of strategically structured interests which seek to socialize their costs. Additionally, it shows how social distinctions and other factors which have th…
Black American Politics
Acquiescence or Activism? Political Behavior among the Politically Alienated
This paperfocuses on factors associated with mass society and relative deprivation theories as determinants of behavior among the politically alienated. Results from contingency table and logit analysis suggest that not only do the alienated differ from their nonalienated counterparts, but also there are substantial variations among the alienated: (1) those with organizational affiliations and trust in others are less likely to be political dropo…
Labor Market Participation among Young Adults
This study models culture of poverty explanations, earlier experiences that tend to restrict opportunities, demographic effects representing differential rates of participation by social groups, and health and marijuana use variables indicating the influence of individual life- style differences as predictors of the rate of labor market entry, promotion, and dismissal among subjects from early adolescence to young adulthood. The data are drawn fr…
Convergence, Polarization, or What
Wilson (1978, 1987) argues that since the 1960s, race has become a less important determinant of the life chances and outlooks of individual blacks than has sociocconomic status; moreover, he suggests that as race has declined in its significance, the black community has become more socioeconomically differentiated and polarized. Using data from the 1964 through 1984 American National Election Surveys, this article examines hypotheses derived fro…
Splitting the Middle
Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in America
Using data from the 1983–1987 General Social Surveys, this paper investigates the degree to which being self-employed is more prevalent within certain racial and ethnic groups than others. Those of Jewish ancestry were more likely than others to be self-employed; those from “racial” ethnic groups were generally less likely than white ethnics to be self-employed. In addition, being older, more educated, from a higher-income family, male, from the …
Splitting the Middle
Introduction The Middle Layers and Political Alienation Splitting the Middle Class Interests and State Actions: Profiles of the Class Layers Class-Based Changes in Political Alienation: Political Disaffection Perspectives Squeezing the Middle: Alienated Politics and the Welfare Split Class-Based Reactions to Political Alienation Some Macro-Level Consequences of Political Alienation The Recent Past and Prospects for the Future Bibliography Index
Race and the Decline of Class in American Politics. Robert Huckfeldt , Carol Weitzel Kohfeld
Skin Tone and Stratification in the Black Community
Data from the National Survey of Black Americans (NSBA)(1979-80) are used to examine the effects of skin-tone variations of blacks on educational attainment, occupation, and income, net of such antecedent factors as parental socioeconomic status and such contemporaneous factors as sex, region of residence, urbanicity, age, and marital status. The findings are that not only does complexion have significant net effects on stratification outcomes, b…
Ethnic Notions about Alien Nations
This paper examines changes in American ethnic groups' sentiments toward various European, Asian, African, and American countries. While the bivariate results suggest high levels of agreement among Americans about which foreign nations they like and dislike, the multivariate results indicate little consensus among ethnic groups concerning which alien nations are viewed favorably and unfavorably. American ethnic groups hold varied opinions toward …
Preference or Necessity? Changing Work Roles of Black and White Women, 1973-1990
Etude des determinants economiques et sociaux de l'entree des femmes americaines de race blanche et noire sur le marche du travail. Les motivations de ces femmes varient selon la race, l'âge, le statut marital, le cadre familial, et se situent sur le plan de la necessite (necessite economique d'avoir un travail) ou de la preference (volonte d'exercer une activite professionnelle)
Discrimination over the Life Course
Using data from the 1940-1980 United States Microdata Extract File and the Current Population Survey's 1990 Annual Demographic File, this study examines three competing explanations of the disparity in black and white male earnings over the life course. The “legacy of discrimination” explanation suggests that current racial disparities in earnings reflect nothing more than past discrimination against older blacks, and that the earnings of younger…
Rural-Urban Differences in Black Family Structure
The nature and structure of the African American family continues to be a topic of importance in sociology. Since the much-maligned Moynihan report of the 1960s, sociologists have linked Black family structure to persisting disadvantage. However, the overwhelming majority of past studies have focused on the urban Black family. Accordingly, this article employs data from the 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples to compare the rural African American f…
Does race matter? The determinants and consequences of self-reports of discrimination victimization
Empowerment in Chicago
Empowerment in Chicago asks and answers the hard questions about Chicago's early experience with the EZ process. It provides an overview and history of the Empowerment Zone initiative as an economic development strategy. It provides a wealth of information about economic growth, job development, quality of life, and citizen participation in Chicago's Empowerment Zone, Enterprise Communities, and other communities in the Chicago metropolitan area.…
Being Black, Living in the Red
Being Black, Living in the Red demonstrates that many differences between blacks and whites stem not from race but from economic inequalities that have accumulated over the course of American history. Property ownership - as measured by net worth - reflects this legacy of economic oppression. The racial discrepancy in wealth holdings leads to advantages for whites in the form of better schools, more desirable residences, higher wages, and more op…
Lost in the Storm
Contemporary sociologists implicitly have assumed that the race-class debate has been resolved: Blacks tend to fall in one of two categories-"the black middle class" or the "truly disadvantaged." However, lost amid the controversies over the supposed privileges of the former and the problems of the latter is the plight of the "forgotten" category of blacks: the black working class. Accordingly, we present a sociological analysis of the black work…
Bleaching out the color line
Open for Business in the Black Metropolis
Sacrificing for the cause
Hurricane Katrina and the Racial Gulf
Americans like to believe that "we are all in the same boat" when disaster strikes. Using a Du Boisian framework, this article provides a multivariate analysis of survey data from victims of Hurricane Katrina to determine whether there were racial differences in their perceptions about rescue and relief efforts. The data collected from survivors show that Blacks and Whites drew very different lessons from the tragedy. There was widespread agreeme…
Segregated jobs or ethnic niches
Does Diversity Pay
The value-in-diversity perspective argues that a diverse workforce, relative to a homogeneous one, is generally beneficial for business, including but not limited to corporate profits and earnings. This is in contrast to other accounts that view diversity as either nonconsequential to business success or actually detrimental by creating conflict, undermining cohesion, and thus decreasing productivity. Using data from the 1996 to 1997 National Org…
From Affirmative Action to Diversity
This article provides an overview of changes in the discourse about inclusion as it has evolved from debates about affirmative action to various notions of diversity. The article seeks movement away from 'colorblind diversity' and 'segregated diversity' toward a 'critical diversity' that examines all forms of social inequality, oppression, and stratification that revolve around issues of difference. It lays out concrete strategies for doing so: (…
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