Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Areas and Research Interests
poverty; inequality & social policy; urban; race & interethnic relations

Key Publications
“The Social Construction of Racial Privilege in the Unite States: An Asset Perspective,” in Beyond Racism (Eds. Charles V. Hamilton, Lynn Huntley Neville Alexander, Antonio Sergio Alfrede Gulmaraes and Wilmot James, 2001); Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles (with Lawrence Bobo, James Johnson, Jr., and Abel Valenzuela, 2000); “The Persistence of Poverty in a Changing World,” pp 161-177 in Blackwell Companion to Sociology, (Ed. Judith Blau, 2000); Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality (with Thomas Shapiro, 1995, paperback ed. 1997).

Academic Credentials
Professor of Sociology and
Dean of Social Sciences,
College of Letters and Science

PhD Washington University, 1977