Politics, Markets, and Top Income Shares The rise of the super-rich has attracted much political and academic attention in recent years. However, to date there have been few attempts to explain the cross-national variation in the recent rise of very … Read more
"The National News Media and the Decline of American Lynching 1883-1930" When does sustained criticism of racial and ethnic violence emerge? When racial and ethnic violence break out, members of organized political opposition are often the first victims. Others who … Read more
"Apathy and Antipathy: Media Coverage of Restrictive Immigration Policy and the Maintenance of Inequality" Although the government is no longer explicit in defending the boundaries of whiteness, it continues to play a central role in shaping symbolic boundaries between immigrants … Read more
“Reconstructing the Ship of Theseus?” Groups, Roles & Trajectories in Early Adolescent Friendship Networks A fundamental aspect of school life rests on the collective substructures of peer networks. We examine two intersecting substructures here: peer groups defined as dense communities of close … Read more
Liana Richardson, Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC-CH Department of Sociology (En)gendering Racial Disparities in Health Trajectories: An Intersectional and Life Course Analysis Abstract: Sociological research on racial/ethnic and gender inequality in health rarely employs an intersectionality perspective. To demonstrate its utility and importance, … Read more
