Deindustrialization, white flight, and inner city poverty have spelled trouble for Baltimore schools. Marion Orr now examines why school reform has been difficu

The Transformation of Plantation Politics explores the effects of black political exclusion, the sharecropping system, and white resistance on the Mississippi D

The currency of social capital serves as an important function given the capacity to generate external access (getting to) and internal accountability (getting

Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most d

Ginwright examines the role of community based organizations (CBOs) in the lives and development of black urban youth. The author argues that these organization