Race, Place, and Risk

Race, Place, and Risk
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 0791403947
ISBN-13 : 9780791403945
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Race, Place, and Risk by : Harold M. Rose

Download or read book Race, Place, and Risk written by Harold M. Rose and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-08-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on data from some of the larger black communities in the U.S., this book shows the impact of both individual and environmental influences on black homicide. While it primarily addresses black-on-black homicide, its purpose is to illustrate the effect of the environment on increasing the likelihood of victimization. Race, Place, and Risk demonstrates how changes in the urban economy during the past twenty-five years have played a major role in elevating the risk of victimization in large urban communities and in altering the structure of victimization as well.

Race, Place, and Risk

Race, Place, and Risk
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 0791403939
ISBN-13 : 9780791403938
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Race, Place, and Risk by : Harold M. Rose

Download or read book Race, Place, and Risk written by Harold M. Rose and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on data from some of the larger black communities in the U.S., this book shows the impact of both individual and environmental influences on black homicide. While it primarily addresses black-on-black homicide, its purpose is to illustrate the effect of the environment on increasing the likelihood of victimization. Race, Place, and Risk demonstrates how changes in the urban economy during the past twenty-five years have played a major role in elevating the risk of victimization in large urban communities and in altering the structure of victimization as well.

Calculating Race

Calculating Race
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9780197504017
ISBN-13 : 0197504019
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Calculating Race by : Benjamin Wiggins

Download or read book Calculating Race written by Benjamin Wiggins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Calculating Race, Benjamin Wiggins analyzes the historical relationship between statistical risk assessment and race in the United States. He illustrates how, through a reliance on the variable of race, actuarial science transformed the nature of racism and helped usher racial disparities in wealth, incarceration, and housing from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Wiggins begins by tracing how the life insurance industry utilized race in its calculations at the end of the nineteenth century, focusing particularly on Prudential and its aggressive battles with state regulators to discriminate against clients and adjust rates on the basis of race. He then turns his focus to the collection of racial statistics in the Illinois state penitentiary system in the late nineteenth century and the state's subsequent development of predictive sentencing and parole formulas in the 1920s that weighed race as a key factor. Next, he investigates the role of race in the state-sponsored mortgage insurance program of the Federal Housing Administration between the start of the New Deal and the beginning of the Cold War and its prolonged effects on mortgage lending. Wiggins concludes with an analysis of the use of race in the statistical risk assessments across financial institutions and government programs during the post-civil rights movement era, and how that practice has been transformed in the twenty-first century through "proxy" variables which stand in for the now taboo category of race. Offering readers a new perspective on the historical importance of actuarial science in structural racism, Calculating Race is a particularly timely contribution as Big Data and algorithmic decision making increasingly pervade our lives.

Race and Place

Race and Place
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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9780830881024
ISBN-13 : 0830881026
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Race and Place by : David P. Leong

Download or read book Race and Place written by David P. Leong and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We long for diverse, thriving neighborhoods and churches, yet racial injustices persist. Why? Urban missiologist David Leong reveals the profound ways in which geographic structures and systems sustain the divisions among us and create barriers to reconciliation. For the flourishing of our communities, here is a vision of belonging and hope in our streets, cities, and churches.

Race, Place, and Suburban Policing

Race, Place, and Suburban Policing
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9780520282384
ISBN-13 : 0520282388
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Race, Place, and Suburban Policing by : Andrea S. Boyles

Download or read book Race, Place, and Suburban Policing written by Andrea S. Boyles and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Relying on compelling interviews from the Meacham Park neighborhood--a marginalized Black enclave located in a predominately white affluent St. Louis suburb, this book brings to life the everyday interactions of disadvantaged suburban Blacks as they faced annexation, aggressive policing, two nationally profiled shootings, and intervention from the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ)"--Provided by publisher.

Communities in Action

Communities in Action
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Publisher : National Academies Press
Total Pages : 583
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ISBN-10 : 9780309452960
ISBN-13 : 0309452961
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Communities in Action by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Place, Not Race

Place, Not Race
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9780807086155
ISBN-13 : 0807086150
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Place, Not Race by : Sheryll Cashin

Download or read book Place, Not Race written by Sheryll Cashin and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative action Race-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of four-year public colleges that consider racial or ethnic status in admissions has fallen from 60 percent to 35 percent. Only 45 percent of private colleges still explicitly consider race, with elite schools more likely to do so, although they too have retreated. For law professor and civil rights activist Sheryll Cashin, this isn’t entirely bad news, because as she argues, affirmative action as currently practiced does little to help disadvantaged people. The truly disadvantaged—black and brown children trapped in high-poverty environs—are not getting the quality schooling they need in part because backlash and wedge politics undermine any possibility for common-sense public policies. Using place instead of race in diversity programming, she writes, will better amend the structural disadvantages endured by many children of color, while enhancing the possibility that we might one day move past the racial resentment that affirmative action engenders. In Place, Not Race, Cashin reimagines affirmative action and champions place-based policies, arguing that college applicants who have thrived despite exposure to neighborhood or school poverty are deserving of special consideration. Those blessed to have come of age in poverty-free havens are not. Sixty years since the historic decision, we’re undoubtedly far from meeting the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, but Cashin offers a new framework for true inclusion for the millions of children who live separate and unequal lives. Her proposals include making standardized tests optional, replacing merit-based financial aid with need-based financial aid, and recruiting high-achieving students from overlooked places, among other steps that encourage cross-racial alliances and social mobility. A call for action toward the long overdue promise of equality, Place, Not Race persuasively shows how the social costs of racial preferences actually outweigh any of the marginal benefits when effective race-neutral alternatives are available.