Russell Sage Foundation: 45 books
Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity
Immigration and Belonging in North America and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Fifty years of large-scale immigration has brought significant ethnic, racial, and religious diversity to North America and Western Europe, but has also prompted hostile backlashes. In Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity, a distinguished multidisciplinary group of scholars examine whether and how...
The Obama Effect
How the 2008 Campaign Changed White Racial Attitudes
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Barack Obama’s historic 2008 campaign exposed many white Americans more than ever before to a black individual who defied negative stereotypes. While Obama’s politics divided voters, Americans uniformly perceived Obama as highly successful, intelligent, and charismatic. What effect, if any, did...
by Janelle S. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
As immigration from Asia and Latin America reshapes the demographic composition of the U.S., some analysts have anticipated the decline of conservative white evangelicals’ influence in politics. Yet, Donald Trump captured a larger share of the white evangelical vote in the 2016 election than any...
A Pound of Flesh
Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Over seven million Americans are either incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, with their criminal records often following them for life and affecting access to higher education, jobs, and housing. Court-ordered monetary sanctions that compel criminal defendants to pay fines, fees, surcharges,...
Beyond Obamacare
Life, Death, and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Health care spending in the United States today is approaching 20 percent of GDP, yet levels of U.S. population health have been declining for decades relative to other wealthy and even some developing nations. How is it possible that the United States, which spends more than any other nation on health...
by Sigal Alon
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
No issue in American higher education is more contentious than that of race-based affirmative action. In light of the ongoing debate around the topic and recent Supreme Court rulings, affirmative action policy may be facing further changes. As an alternative to race-based affirmative action, some...
Starving the Beast
Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Since the Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s, Republicans have consistently championed tax cuts for individuals and businesses, regardless of whether the economy is booming or in recession or whether the federal budget is in surplus or deficit. In Starving the Beast, sociologist Monica Prasad uncovers...
Framing Immigrants
News Coverage, Public Opinion, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
While undocumented immigration is controversial, the general public is largely unfamiliar with the particulars of immigration policy. Given that public opinion on the topic is malleable, to what extent do mass media shape the public debate on immigration? In Framing Immigrants, political scientists...
The Color Bind
Talking (and Not Talking) About Race at Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Since the 1960s, the dominant model for fostering diversity and inclusion in the United States has been the “color blind” approach, which emphasizes similarity and assimilation and insists that people should be understood as individuals, not as members of racial or cultural groups. This approach...
Cradle to Kindergarten
A New Plan to Combat Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Early care and education for many children in the United States is in crisis. The period between birth and kindergarten is a critical time for child development, and socioeconomic disparities that begin early in children’s lives contribute to starkly different long-term outcomes for adults. Yet,...
Wrecked
How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2019
At its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, automobile manufacturing was the largest, most profitable industry in the United States and residents of industry hubs like Detroit and Flint, Michigan had some of the highest incomes in the country. Over the last half-century, the industry has declined, and American...
Sites Unseen
Uncovering Hidden Hazards in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
From a dive bar in New Orleans to a leafy residential street in Minneapolis, many establishments and homes in cities across the nation share a troubling and largely invisible past: they were once sites of industrial manufacturers, such as plastics factories or machine shops, that likely left behind...
Credit Where It's Due
Rethinking Financial Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
An estimated 45 million adults in the U.S. lack a credit score at time when credit invisibility can reduce one’s ability to rent a home, find employment, or secure a mortgage or loan. As a result, individuals without credit—who are disproportionately African American and Latino—often lead separate...
Abandoned Families
Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2016
Education, employment, and home ownership have long been considered stepping stones to the middle class. But in Abandoned Families, social policy expert Kristin Seefeldt shows how many working families have access only to a separate but unequal set of poor-quality jobs, low-performing schools, and...