Browsing by Author "Bobo, Lawrence"
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An American Conundrum: Race, Sociology, And The African American Road To Citizenship
Bobo, Lawrence D. (Oxford University Press, 2012) -
Before We Embrace the Future: Assessing Where We've Been and Where We Are
Dawson, Michael; Bobo, Lawrence (Cambridge University Press, 2008)Barack Obama was elected president of the United States shortly before this issue of the Du Bois Review went to press. The historic nature of the 2008 presidential campaign was evident early in the process, particularly ... -
Can Non-full-probability Internet Surveys Yield Useful Data? A Comparison with Full-probability Face-to-face Surveys in the Domain of Race and Social Inequality Attitudes
Simmons, Alicia D.; Bobo, Lawrence D. (SAGE Publications, 2015)The authors investigate the potential utility of Web-based surveys of non-full-probabilistically sampled respondents for social science research. Specifically, they compare demographic, attitude response, and multivariate ... -
A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency
Bobo, Lawrence D.; Dawson, Michael C. (Cambridge University Press, 2009)Has Barack Obama's success transformed the racial divide? Did he somehow transcend or help bring to an end centuries of racial division in the United States? Did he deliberately run a strategically race-neutral, race-evading ... -
Claiming Human Dignity
Bobo, Lawrence D. (Cambridge University Press, 2010)In the concluding line of his opening note to Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Du Bois, wrote “I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the ... -
Crime, Urban Poverty, and Social Science
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The Diversity Challenge
Bobo, Lawrence D. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012) -
Ethno-Racial Attitudes and Social Inequality
Samson, Frank L.; Bobo, Lawrence D. (Springer Netherlands, 2014) -
Inequality and U.S. Society
Bobo, Lawrence D. (Cambridge University Press, 2010)Among the advanced industrial nations, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income. Douglas Massey emphasizes that the purchasing power of households in the top five percent of the income distribution ... -
Inequality and U.S. Society: Review of Douglas S. Massey's Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System
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On Our Moral Communities
Bobo, Lawrence D. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012) -
One Year Later and the Myth of a Post-Racial Society
Dawson, Michael C.; Bobo, Lawrence D. (Cambridge University Press, 2009)Many commentators, both conservative and liberal, have celebrated the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, claiming the election signified America has truly become a “post-racial” society. It is not ... -
Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy
Bobo, Lawrence D.; Charles, Camille Z. (SAGE Publications, 2009)In 1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed that the “racist virus in the American blood stream still afflicts us.” The authors assess the tenor of racial attitudes in white and black America across the ensuing four decades. ... -
Racialization, Assimilation, and the Mexican American Experience
Bobo, Lawrence D. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2011) -
The Real Record on Racial Attitudes
Bobo, Lawrence D.; Charles, Camille Z.; Krysan, Maria; Simmons, Alicia D. (Princeton University Press, 2012) -
Reclaiming a Du Boisian Perspective on Racial Attitudes
Bobo, Lawrence (SAGE Publications, 2000-03-01)This article asserts that Du Boisian sociology included a strong role for racial prejudice in analyzing the conditions and dynamics of African American social life. The article examines Du Bois's empirical social scientific ... -
Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today
Bobo, Lawrence D. (MIT Press, 2011)In 1965, when Dædalus published two issues on “The Negro American,” civil rights in the United States had experienced a series of triumphs and setbacks. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ... -
The Stickiness of Race
Bobo, Lawrence D. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014) -
Thinking about Crime: Race and Lay Accounts of Lawbreaking Behavior
Thompson, Victor R.; Bobo, Lawrence D. (Sage Publications, 2011)Lay or commonsense accounts of the origins of criminal behavior may play a key role in sustaining a strong public appetite for harsh criminal justice policies and undergird large black-white differences in opinion in this ... -
A Troublesome Recurrence: Racialized Realities and Racist Reasoning Today
Bobo, Lawrence D. (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015)