SAGE Journal Articles

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Shifting Geographies: Examining the Role of Suburbanization in Blacks' Declining Segregation
Mary Fischer
Urban Affairs Review (2008) 43, p. 475 (17 pages)

This article examines recent trends in blacks' moves to the suburbs, and their continued urban segregation. Although this article features some extensive statistical analysis, it does explore a very interesting phenomenon in the current racial segregation of living spaces.

Statistical Discrimination in Employment: Its Practice, Conceptualization, and Implications for Public Policy
Amanda Baumle & Mark Fossett
American Behavioral Scientist (2005) 48, p. 1250 (20 pages)

In this article, the authors explore how the phenomenon of statistical discrimination may begin to replace more traditional forms of "prejudice-based discrimination."

Cultural Oppression and the High-Risk Status of African Americans
Jerome H. Schiele
Journal of Black Studies 2005 35: 802 (26 pages)

The author makes that argument that, while much attention has been paid to political and economic oppression faced by African Americans, less attention has been paid to cultural oppression, particularly to the view that cultural oppression is foundational in explaining high social vulnerability.  He argues that cultural oppression, tied to more obvious forms of economic and political oppression, has produced specific risk factors that inhibit both individual and group attainment and prosperity. 

Targeting Lynch Victims : Social Marginality or Status Transgressions?
Amy Kate Bailey, Stewart E. Tolnay, E. M. Beck and Jennifer D. Laird
American Sociological Review 2011 76: 412 (26 pages)

This article uses Census data and on-line genealogical records to identify Black male lynching victims in order to link the selection of lynching victims to social marginality. Their study covered 10 states in the American South between 1882 and 1930. Their findings demonstrate that social marginality significantly increased the likelihood of being targeted for lynching.