Books written by Douglas S. Massey
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Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System
Categorically Unequal is striking both for its theoretical originality and for the breadth of topics it covers. Massey argues that social inequalities arise from the universal human tendency to place others into social categories.
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Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration
This book provides an essential "user's manual" for readers seeking a historical, theoretical, and substantive understanding of how U.S. policy on Mexican immigration evolved to its current dysfunctional state, as well as how it might be ...
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Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System
In Categorically Unequal, Douglas Massey weaves together history, political economy, and even neuropsychology to provide a comprehensive explanation of how America's culture and political system perpetuates inequalities between different ...
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The Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities
Edited by Greg J. Duncan and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. New York: Russell Sage. Duncan, Otis D. 1969. “Inheritance of Poverty or Inheritance of Race? ... 1983. Friends in School. New York: Academic Press. Erikson, Erik H. 1975.
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Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb
Pp. 82–126 in David B. Grusky, Bruce Western, and Christopher Wimer, eds., The Great Recession. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Smith, Robin, and Michelle DeLair. 1999. “New Evidence from Lender Testing: Discrimination at the ...
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Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico
Institute of Mesoamerican Studies , State University of New York . Simmons , James W. 1968. " Changing Residence in the City : A Review of Intra - urban Mobility . " Geographical Review 58 : 622-651 . Simon , Julian L. 1984.
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
50 The myth of the immigrant ghetto was perpetuated by Ernest Burgess , a founder of the " Chicago School " of urban sociology . In 1933 he published a well - known map showing the spatial location Chicago's various immigrant groups .
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Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium
Lee, Everett S. (1966), 'A theory of migration', Demography, 3: 47-57. Lee, S. M. (1996), 'Issues in research on women, international migration, and labour', Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 5: 5-26.
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Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States
Retablo of Dolores R. García vvV - - - - - - - - - -. Gracias a la Virgen de San Juan de los Lagos por haberle vuelta su salud a mi nieto Phillip M. García en el año de 1964 de parte de su abuelita Dolores R. García en este día 27 ...
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Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
Prior research has documented a sharp divergence in child-rearing practices along the lines of both class (Kohn 1985; Lareau 2000) and race (Lareau 2003). Whereas middle-class white parents generally adopt a strategy of ...
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International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market
1n Samoan Worlds : Culture , Migration , 1dentity and Albert Wendt , " in R. King , J. Connell , and P. White ( eds . ) , Writing Across Worlds : Literature and Migration . London : Routledge , pp . 263-79 . - ( 1997 ) .
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Crossing the Border: Research from the Mexican Migration Project
In Crossing the Border, editors Jorge Durand and Douglas Massey bring the clarity of scientific analysis to this hotly contested but under-researched topic.
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Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration
This book provides an essential "user's manual" for readers seeking a historical, theoretical, and substantive understanding of how U.S. policy on Mexican immigration evolved to its current dysfunctional state, as well as how it might be ...
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New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration
As Douglas Massey argues in his conclusion, many of the towns profiled in this volume are not equipped with the social and economic institutions to help assimilate new immigrants that are available in the traditional immigrant gateways of ...
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Young, Gifted and Diverse: Origins of the New Black Elite
School prestige Academic support Financial support Social life Racial diversity Athletics 6.9 6.9** 7.4*** 5.5+ 4.8 1.9 7.0 6.8 6.8 5.7 5.0 2.2 6.8 6.2 5.9 5.9 5.1 2.1 Parental education No degree College degree Advanced degree ...
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Return of the "L" Word: A Liberal Vision for the New Century
Sen, Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom. New York: Random House. Sen, Amartya, and Jean Dreze. 1999. The Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze Omnibus: Comprising Poverty and Famines, Hunger and Public Action, and India: Economic Development ...
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Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System
In Categorically Unequal, Douglas Massey weaves together history, political economy, and even neuropsychology to provide a comprehensive explanation of how America's culture and political system perpetuates inequalities between different ...
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Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb
Climbing Mount Laurel proves that the building of affordable housing projects is an efficacious, cost-effective approach to integration and improving the lives of the poor, with reasonable cost and no drawbacks for the community at large.
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Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb
Climbing Mount Laurel proves that the building of affordable housing projects is an efficacious, cost-effective approach to integration and improving the lives of the poor, with reasonable cost and no drawbacks for the community at large.
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Annual Review of Sociology 2009
Annual Review of Sociology 2009