Michael W Combs
Biographic Data
| ID | 342045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael W Combs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael W |
| FAMILY NAME | Combs |
| SIGNATURE | COMBS M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 318 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City
A striking but little recognized change in race relations during the past two decades has seen the declining levels of racial segregation in most of America's major metropolitan areas. More American cities are beginning to have black and white residents. An integral component of this decline in residential segregation has been the large-scale movement of blacks to the suburbs. This book focuses on the attitudes and behavior of African Americans a…
Race or Place? Emerging Public Perspectives on Urban Education
Police Brutality and Public Perceptions of Racial Discrimination: A Tale of Two Beatings
This study uses data from a national and a local opinion survey that were underway when highly publicized police beatings of African Ameri can citizens occurred in two American cities-the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles and the killing of Malice Green in Detroit-to probe the impact of these dramatic events on public perceptions of racial discrimi nation. The incidents appear to have had their greatest effect on specific perceptions of the w…
Trends in Racial Attitudes in Detroit, 1968-1992
Using survey data from the 1960s and 1990s, the authors examine trends in racial attitudes in Detroit in the post-civil rights era. They investigate the degree to which African-Americans and whites see themselves as victims of their racial circumstances and how each group has changed its perceptions of the other group. Whereas whites seem more accepting of residential integration than they were earlier, they are more likely to see themselves as v…
Making Contact? Black-White Social Interaction in an Urban Setting
Although numerous studies have examined the consequences of social contact between black and white Americans, relatively little is known about the determinants of such contact. Drawing on a survey of residents of the Detroit area, this article probes to what extent and in what manner interracial contact (a) has changed over the past quarter century and (b) is shaped by propinquity and personal characteristics. Interracial contact is more common t…
Residential Context and Racial Solidarity among African Americans
Theory: As the structural linchpin of American race relations, residential segregation has important implications for blacks' and whites' thinking about race. Considered here is the impact of residential context-living in predominantly black or racially heterogeneous neighborhoods in the city or the suburbs-on feelings of racial solidarity among black Americans. Hypotheses: The social density hypothesis predicts stronger racial solidarity among b…
Do Black Judges Make a Difference
Previous examinations of the sentencing behavior of black and white trial judges failed to take into account the prior record of the defendant; did not examine the decision to incarcerate, perhaps the most important decision in sentencing a felony defendant; and omitted controls for other salient characteristics of the judge. Analysis of the decisions to incarcerate made by black and white trial judges in a large northeastern community reveal tha…
The Burden of Busing: The Politics of Desegregation in Nashville, Tennessee. Richard A. Pride , J. David Woodard
The Federal Judiciary and Northern School Desegregation: Law, Politics, and Judicial Management
Using a three-tier analysis, this article examines how the interplay of political and legal factors has influenced the development of school desegregation policy in Michigan and Ohio. The author concludes, among other things, that the district courts, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court are sensitive to the influences of politics and legalism, but that the responses of the three kinds of federal courts are different. Re…
Intra-Racial Differences in Attitudes of Blacks: Class Cleavages or Consensus
Black Constituents and Congressional Roll Call Votes
HE POLITICAL arena has changed dramatically for blacks in the last 25 years. Blacks, even in the South, now register to vote in percentages comparable to whites, and the overall participation level of blacks actually exceeds that of whites if socioeconomic status differences are controlled (see Feagin and Hahn 1970; Verba and Nie 1972). It is hardly arguable that political mobilization has brought blacks increased influence over public policy mat…
Race and Capital Punishment: A Longitudinal Analysis
Blacks, Whites, and Attitudes Toward Abortion
Patterns of black and white support for abortion from 1972-80 in the US were examined in order to investigate the significance of race in attitudes toward abortion, analyze the extent to which other factors such as religious practice (religiosity) and demographic characteristics affect these racial differences; and determine what changes, if any, occurred in the salience of race on abortion attitudes during this 9-year period. The General Social …
The Policy-Making Role of the Courts of Appeals in Northern School Desegretation: Ambiguity and Judicial Policy-Making
rT nHE PURPOSE of this research is to examine the decisions made by the courts of appeals in the important policy area of Northern school desegregation in order to advance our understanding of the courts' role in judicial policy-making. Specifically, we concentrate on how the courts of appeals have responded to the uncertainty and ambiguity found in the policy pronouncements of the Supreme Court. In doing so, we explore the relevant legal standar…
Making Contact? Black-White Social Interaction in an Urban Setting
Although numerous studies have examined the consequences of social contact between black and white Americans, relatively little is known about the determinants of such contact. Drawing on a survey of residents of the Detroit area, this article probes to what extent and in what manner interracial contact (a) has changed over the past quarter century and (b) is shaped by propinquity and personal characteristics. Interracial contact is more common t…
Residential Context and Racial Solidarity among African Americans
Theory: As the structural linchpin of American race relations, residential segregation has important implications for blacks' and whites' thinking about race. Considered here is the impact of residential context-living in predominantly black or racially heterogeneous neighborhoods in the city or the suburbs-on feelings of racial solidarity among black Americans. Hypotheses: The social density hypothesis predicts stronger racial solidarity among b…
Do Black Judges Make a Difference
Previous examinations of the sentencing behavior of black and white trial judges failed to take into account the prior record of the defendant; did not examine the decision to incarcerate, perhaps the most important decision in sentencing a felony defendant; and omitted controls for other salient characteristics of the judge. Analysis of the decisions to incarcerate made by black and white trial judges in a large northeastern community reveal tha…
Blacks, Whites, and Attitudes Toward Abortion
Patterns of black and white support for abortion from 1972-80 in the US were examined in order to investigate the significance of race in attitudes toward abortion, analyze the extent to which other factors such as religious practice (religiosity) and demographic characteristics affect these racial differences; and determine what changes, if any, occurred in the salience of race on abortion attitudes during this 9-year period. The General Social …
Police Brutality and Public Perceptions of Racial Discrimination: A Tale of Two Beatings
This study uses data from a national and a local opinion survey that were underway when highly publicized police beatings of African Ameri can citizens occurred in two American cities-the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles and the killing of Malice Green in Detroit-to probe the impact of these dramatic events on public perceptions of racial discrimi nation. The incidents appear to have had their greatest effect on specific perceptions of the w…
Black Constituents and Congressional Roll Call Votes
HE POLITICAL arena has changed dramatically for blacks in the last 25 years. Blacks, even in the South, now register to vote in percentages comparable to whites, and the overall participation level of blacks actually exceeds that of whites if socioeconomic status differences are controlled (see Feagin and Hahn 1970; Verba and Nie 1972). It is hardly arguable that political mobilization has brought blacks increased influence over public policy mat…
Trends in Racial Attitudes in Detroit, 1968-1992
Using survey data from the 1960s and 1990s, the authors examine trends in racial attitudes in Detroit in the post-civil rights era. They investigate the degree to which African-Americans and whites see themselves as victims of their racial circumstances and how each group has changed its perceptions of the other group. Whereas whites seem more accepting of residential integration than they were earlier, they are more likely to see themselves as v…
The Policy-Making Role of the Courts of Appeals in Northern School Desegretation: Ambiguity and Judicial Policy-Making
rT nHE PURPOSE of this research is to examine the decisions made by the courts of appeals in the important policy area of Northern school desegregation in order to advance our understanding of the courts' role in judicial policy-making. Specifically, we concentrate on how the courts of appeals have responded to the uncertainty and ambiguity found in the policy pronouncements of the Supreme Court. In doing so, we explore the relevant legal standar…
Race or Place? Emerging Public Perspectives on Urban Education
Race and Capital Punishment: A Longitudinal Analysis
Blacks, Whites, and Attitudes Toward Abortion
Patterns of black and white support for abortion from 1972-80 in the US were examined in order to investigate the significance of race in attitudes toward abortion, analyze the extent to which other factors such as religious practice (religiosity) and demographic characteristics affect these racial differences; and determine what changes, if any, occurred in the salience of race on abortion attitudes during this 9-year period. The General Social …
The Policy-Making Role of the Courts of Appeals in Northern School Desegretation: Ambiguity and Judicial Policy-Making
rT nHE PURPOSE of this research is to examine the decisions made by the courts of appeals in the important policy area of Northern school desegregation in order to advance our understanding of the courts' role in judicial policy-making. Specifically, we concentrate on how the courts of appeals have responded to the uncertainty and ambiguity found in the policy pronouncements of the Supreme Court. In doing so, we explore the relevant legal standar…
Black Constituents and Congressional Roll Call Votes
HE POLITICAL arena has changed dramatically for blacks in the last 25 years. Blacks, even in the South, now register to vote in percentages comparable to whites, and the overall participation level of blacks actually exceeds that of whites if socioeconomic status differences are controlled (see Feagin and Hahn 1970; Verba and Nie 1972). It is hardly arguable that political mobilization has brought blacks increased influence over public policy mat…
Intra-Racial Differences in Attitudes of Blacks: Class Cleavages or Consensus
The Federal Judiciary and Northern School Desegregation: Law, Politics, and Judicial Management
Using a three-tier analysis, this article examines how the interplay of political and legal factors has influenced the development of school desegregation policy in Michigan and Ohio. The author concludes, among other things, that the district courts, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court are sensitive to the influences of politics and legalism, but that the responses of the three kinds of federal courts are different. Re…
The Burden of Busing: The Politics of Desegregation in Nashville, Tennessee. Richard A. Pride , J. David Woodard
Do Black Judges Make a Difference
Previous examinations of the sentencing behavior of black and white trial judges failed to take into account the prior record of the defendant; did not examine the decision to incarcerate, perhaps the most important decision in sentencing a felony defendant; and omitted controls for other salient characteristics of the judge. Analysis of the decisions to incarcerate made by black and white trial judges in a large northeastern community reveal tha…
Residential Context and Racial Solidarity among African Americans
Theory: As the structural linchpin of American race relations, residential segregation has important implications for blacks' and whites' thinking about race. Considered here is the impact of residential context-living in predominantly black or racially heterogeneous neighborhoods in the city or the suburbs-on feelings of racial solidarity among black Americans. Hypotheses: The social density hypothesis predicts stronger racial solidarity among b…
Trends in Racial Attitudes in Detroit, 1968-1992
Using survey data from the 1960s and 1990s, the authors examine trends in racial attitudes in Detroit in the post-civil rights era. They investigate the degree to which African-Americans and whites see themselves as victims of their racial circumstances and how each group has changed its perceptions of the other group. Whereas whites seem more accepting of residential integration than they were earlier, they are more likely to see themselves as v…
Making Contact? Black-White Social Interaction in an Urban Setting
Although numerous studies have examined the consequences of social contact between black and white Americans, relatively little is known about the determinants of such contact. Drawing on a survey of residents of the Detroit area, this article probes to what extent and in what manner interracial contact (a) has changed over the past quarter century and (b) is shaped by propinquity and personal characteristics. Interracial contact is more common t…
Race or Place? Emerging Public Perspectives on Urban Education
Police Brutality and Public Perceptions of Racial Discrimination: A Tale of Two Beatings
This study uses data from a national and a local opinion survey that were underway when highly publicized police beatings of African Ameri can citizens occurred in two American cities-the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles and the killing of Malice Green in Detroit-to probe the impact of these dramatic events on public perceptions of racial discrimi nation. The incidents appear to have had their greatest effect on specific perceptions of the w…
Race and Place: Race Relations in an American City
A striking but little recognized change in race relations during the past two decades has seen the declining levels of racial segregation in most of America's major metropolitan areas. More American cities are beginning to have black and white residents. An integral component of this decline in residential segregation has been the large-scale movement of blacks to the suburbs. This book focuses on the attitudes and behavior of African Americans a…
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