A Rhodes
Biographic Data
| ID | 37366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Rhodes |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rhodes |
| SIGNATURE | RHODES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8849-7255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Social, Political, and Economic Consequences of Climate Hazards
As climate change intensifies, understanding the effects of climate hazards such as wildfires, hurricanes, coastal and riverine flooding, tornadoes, heat waves, and extreme snowstorms is key to understanding patterns of inequality. In this introduction, we review a multidisciplinary literature on the social, political, and economic consequences of climate hazards for individuals and communities in the US. We explore how the risk of exposure to cl…
School Choice Among Latinx Families: How Experiential Knowledge Informs Choice Over Time
Across the United States, school choice options continue to grow, and Latinx families represent a large and growing share of those opting into choice schools. Yet research on school choice has primarily focused on Black and White families. In this article, we examine how Latinx families select schools for their children and highlight how these choices vary by immigrant generation and change over time. Using in‐depth interviews with 35 families, w…
I Thought This Was a Ghost Neighborhood: How Youth Respond to Neighborhood Change
Relatively little scholarship centers the experiences of Black youth to understand how young people interact with their neighborhood contexts, evaluate the differences between neighborhoods, and adapt to new neighborhoods. Using interviews with 120 Black youth whose families moved from high-poverty central city neighborhoods into lower-poverty, more racially diverse suburban neighborhoods with the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program, we find that …
Inter-District School Transfers and the Role of Educators in Black Students’ Sense of School Belonging”
Inter-district racial and socioeconomic segregation continue to affect students’ educational opportunities. Housing mobility programs provide a way for low-income families to access lower-poverty and higher-performing schools in nearby districts. However, changing schools is also disruptive for students. Through interviews with 67 low-income Black youth who moved from Baltimore city into the suburbs with a mobility program, we examine how student…
A Rapidly Changing Ecology of Aid: Accepting Help and Stigma in the Aftermath of Disaster
I Went There”: How Parent Experience Shapes School Decisions
As school choice expands, families face an increasingly arduous decision-making process around school enrollment. Through interviews with a socioeconomically and ethno-racially diverse sample of 60 parents in Dallas, Texas, we illustrate one key way families negotiate this choice landscape. We find that many parents use their own educational experiences as first-stage decision rules for narrowing the types of schools they consider for their child…
Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster
Best Laid Plans: How the Middle Class Make Residential Decisions Post-Disaster
Middle-class households typically search for housing with an eye to long-term residence and are able to maintain a high level of stability, but what happens when these households are forced to make mobility decisions after exposure to a disaster and subsequent residential displacement? Through longitudinal interviews with 59 households in a middle-class suburb of Houston that flooded during Hurricane Harvey, we found that residential mobility dec…
The Age of Belonging: Friendship Formation After Residential Mobility
Neighborhoods are an important social context for children’s development; however, a growing body of research illustrates that there is often significant heterogeneity in how neighborhoods influence children’s outcomes. Scholars have therefore focused greater attention on understanding neighborhood effect heterogeneity and the social processes that underpin this variation. Recent quantitative work has pointed to heterogeneity by age in the effect…
Unwrapping the Suburban “Package Deal”: Race, Class, and School Access
Large disparities in educational quality exist between cities and surrounding suburban school districts and are increasing between suburban districts—a trend that emerged over the past several decades and shows signs of growing. Using in-depth interviews, this study examines how children are sorted into different school districts across a metropolitan area. We find that the ideal educational arrangement for nearly all parents is to live in a neig…
The spirit level. Why more equal societies almost always do better, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
The spirit level. Why more equal societies almost always do better, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, London, Allen Lane, 2009, 330pp., ISBN: 978-1-846-14039-6 The Spirit Level continues in th
Unwrapping the Suburban “Package Deal”: Race, Class, and School Access
Large disparities in educational quality exist between cities and surrounding suburban school districts and are increasing between suburban districts—a trend that emerged over the past several decades and shows signs of growing. Using in-depth interviews, this study examines how children are sorted into different school districts across a metropolitan area. We find that the ideal educational arrangement for nearly all parents is to live in a neig…
Best Laid Plans: How the Middle Class Make Residential Decisions Post-Disaster
Middle-class households typically search for housing with an eye to long-term residence and are able to maintain a high level of stability, but what happens when these households are forced to make mobility decisions after exposure to a disaster and subsequent residential displacement? Through longitudinal interviews with 59 households in a middle-class suburb of Houston that flooded during Hurricane Harvey, we found that residential mobility dec…
I Thought This Was a Ghost Neighborhood: How Youth Respond to Neighborhood Change
Relatively little scholarship centers the experiences of Black youth to understand how young people interact with their neighborhood contexts, evaluate the differences between neighborhoods, and adapt to new neighborhoods. Using interviews with 120 Black youth whose families moved from high-poverty central city neighborhoods into lower-poverty, more racially diverse suburban neighborhoods with the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program, we find that …
The spirit level. Why more equal societies almost always do better, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
The spirit level. Why more equal societies almost always do better, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, London, Allen Lane, 2009, 330pp., ISBN: 978-1-846-14039-6 The Spirit Level continues in th
Unwrapping the Suburban “Package Deal”: Race, Class, and School Access
Large disparities in educational quality exist between cities and surrounding suburban school districts and are increasing between suburban districts—a trend that emerged over the past several decades and shows signs of growing. Using in-depth interviews, this study examines how children are sorted into different school districts across a metropolitan area. We find that the ideal educational arrangement for nearly all parents is to live in a neig…
The Age of Belonging: Friendship Formation After Residential Mobility
Neighborhoods are an important social context for children’s development; however, a growing body of research illustrates that there is often significant heterogeneity in how neighborhoods influence children’s outcomes. Scholars have therefore focused greater attention on understanding neighborhood effect heterogeneity and the social processes that underpin this variation. Recent quantitative work has pointed to heterogeneity by age in the effect…
Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster
Best Laid Plans: How the Middle Class Make Residential Decisions Post-Disaster
Middle-class households typically search for housing with an eye to long-term residence and are able to maintain a high level of stability, but what happens when these households are forced to make mobility decisions after exposure to a disaster and subsequent residential displacement? Through longitudinal interviews with 59 households in a middle-class suburb of Houston that flooded during Hurricane Harvey, we found that residential mobility dec…
I Went There”: How Parent Experience Shapes School Decisions
As school choice expands, families face an increasingly arduous decision-making process around school enrollment. Through interviews with a socioeconomically and ethno-racially diverse sample of 60 parents in Dallas, Texas, we illustrate one key way families negotiate this choice landscape. We find that many parents use their own educational experiences as first-stage decision rules for narrowing the types of schools they consider for their child…
Inter-District School Transfers and the Role of Educators in Black Students’ Sense of School Belonging”
Inter-district racial and socioeconomic segregation continue to affect students’ educational opportunities. Housing mobility programs provide a way for low-income families to access lower-poverty and higher-performing schools in nearby districts. However, changing schools is also disruptive for students. Through interviews with 67 low-income Black youth who moved from Baltimore city into the suburbs with a mobility program, we examine how student…
A Rapidly Changing Ecology of Aid: Accepting Help and Stigma in the Aftermath of Disaster
School Choice Among Latinx Families: How Experiential Knowledge Informs Choice Over Time
Across the United States, school choice options continue to grow, and Latinx families represent a large and growing share of those opting into choice schools. Yet research on school choice has primarily focused on Black and White families. In this article, we examine how Latinx families select schools for their children and highlight how these choices vary by immigrant generation and change over time. Using in‐depth interviews with 35 families, w…
I Thought This Was a Ghost Neighborhood: How Youth Respond to Neighborhood Change
Relatively little scholarship centers the experiences of Black youth to understand how young people interact with their neighborhood contexts, evaluate the differences between neighborhoods, and adapt to new neighborhoods. Using interviews with 120 Black youth whose families moved from high-poverty central city neighborhoods into lower-poverty, more racially diverse suburban neighborhoods with the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program, we find that …
The Social, Political, and Economic Consequences of Climate Hazards
As climate change intensifies, understanding the effects of climate hazards such as wildfires, hurricanes, coastal and riverine flooding, tornadoes, heat waves, and extreme snowstorms is key to understanding patterns of inequality. In this introduction, we review a multidisciplinary literature on the social, political, and economic consequences of climate hazards for individuals and communities in the US. We explore how the risk of exposure to cl…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · School Choice and Performance (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · School choice (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)