Mary Pattillo | Academic Influence

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Mary Pattillo

Sociology

#1058

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#1214

Historical Rank

#424

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Mary Pattillo's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Masters Sociology University of Chicago
Bachelors Sociology Howard University

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According to Wikipedia, Mary Pattillo is Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. As of 2016, she has served as director of undergraduate studies in African American studies and has been a faculty associate in Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research since 2004. She has formerly served as chair of Northwestern University's department of sociology.

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Mary Pattillo's Published Works

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Published Works

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2018) (837)
Sweet Mothers and Gangbangers: Managing Crime in a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood (1998) (337)
Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City (2007) (260)
Black middle-class neighborhoods (2005) (227)
Imprisoning America : the social effects of mass incarceration (2004) (144)
Black Picket Fences, Second Edition: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (2013) (109)
Housing: Commodity versus Right (2013) (95)
Poverty in the family: Race, siblings, and socioeconomic heterogeneity (2006) (94)
EVERYDAY POLITICS OF SCHOOL CHOICE IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY (2015) (93)
Black Placemaking: Celebration, Play, and Poetry (2016) (86)
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class - Conclusion (1999) (70)
Book Review: Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (2010) (63)
Kin Effects on Black-White Account and Home Ownership (2002) (55)
Extending the boundaries and definition of the ghetto (2003) (53)
Ghetto: the invention of a place, the history of an idea (2017) (51)
Negotiating Blackness, for Richer or for Poorer (2003) (49)
Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law (2019) (42)
Organizational “Failure” and Institutional Pluralism (2015) (40)
Organizational ‘failure’ and institutional pluralism:A case study of an urban school closure (2013) (28)
Housing Decisions among Low-Income Hispanic Households in Chicago (2016) (24)
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions (2022) (23)
Layaway Freedom: Coercive Financialization in the Criminal Legal System1 (2021) (21)
The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois: Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line. By José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. xii+273. $89.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper). (2021) (18)
PAY UNTO CAESAR:Breaches of Justice in the Monetary Sanctions Regime. (2020) (18)
Middle Class, Yet Black: A Review Essay (1999) (18)
Revisiting Loïc Wacquant's Urban Outcasts (2009) (14)
Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy by Stephen Steinberg:Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (1998) (13)
Crossing Class Boundaries: Race, Siblings and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity. JCPR Working Paper. (2002) (10)
Monetary Sanctions and Housing Instability (2022) (9)
Race, Class, and Neighborhoods (2008) (8)
Investing in Poor and Black Neighborhoods ‘As Is’ (2008) (7)
Black on the block (2007) (7)
The Art of Being Black: The Creation of Black British Youth Identities by Claire E. Alexander:The Art of Being Black: The Creation of Black British Youth Identities (1997) (7)
Intergenerational assets and the black/white test score gap (2004) (6)
Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago (2014) (5)
Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization. By John Arena. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Pp. xi+303. $82.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper). (2013) (4)
Research Design for the Study of Mixed-Income Housing (2009) (4)
Review symposium on There Goes the Gayborhood? (2015) (4)
Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago (2014) (4)
Black Middle Class (2006) (3)
Chapter 5, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (2002) (2)
Race, Class, and Crime in the Redevelopment of American Cities (2012) (2)
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions (2022) (2)
Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, by Michael Javen Fortner (2017) (2)
Poor Neighborhoods in the Metropolis (2016) (2)
High-Stakes Choosing: Race and Place in Chicago School Reform (2014) (2)
Book Review: The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology (2016) (2)
Book Reviews (1997) (1)
The Problem of Integration (2014) (1)
Making Fair (Public) Housing Claims in a Post-Racism Legal Context (2009) (1)
Review of "No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City" by Katherine Newman (2000) (1)
The black bourgeoisie meets the truly disadvantaged (2012) (1)
Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighborhoods by Emily Talen (2009) (0)
Review of "Streets of Glory" by Omar McRoberts (2004) (0)
La posición intermediaria de los afroamericanos de clase social media en Estados Unidos (The middleman role of middle class African Americans in the United States) (2015) (0)
Saving the Lathrop Homes: The fight to preserve public housing on the northwest side (2013) (0)
Homeland security for nurses in Texas. (2002) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)
Groveland: A Stable African American Community (2006) (0)
Chicago’s block clubs: How neighbors shape the city, by Amanda I. Seligman (2017) (0)
Bruce Western (2004) (0)
Opportunity without Moving: Building Strong Neighborhoods Where People Can Stay If They Want To (2015) (0)
Plenty good room for Obama Library — just not in Washington Park (2015) (0)
Mary Pattillo’s Sociology of the Black Middle Class (2020) (0)
The truly disadvantaged and racial inequality (2014) (0)
The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, by Aldon Morris. University of California Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-52027-635-2; 320 pp. ($29.95 hardcover.) (2016) (0)
Review of "Desegregating the City" by David P. Varady (2006) (0)
The Black Middle Class as Employees and Consumers: Opinion Pages - Room for Debate (2011) (0)
Review Essay of "Something Within: Religion in African-American Political Activism" by Fredrick C. Harris (2000) (0)
Special issue on "Poverty, Policy, and People" conference (2014) (0)
Book Review: The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia (2020) (0)
Race, Class, and Politics in the Black Community (2014) (0)
Chapter 1: Mary Pattillo (2010) (0)
The tension between abstraction and specificity in enacting reflexivity in race scholarship (2012) (0)
Les races, l’immigration et le défi du régionalisme à Chicago (Race, Immigration, and the Challenge of Regionalism in Chicago) (2013) (0)
ESTAMOS DISTANCIADOS (2021) (0)
Title : Imprisoning America Book Subtitle : The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration Book (2019) (0)
What They’re Reading (2012) (0)
The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia, by Orly Clergé. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780520296787; 320 pp. $29.95 paper. (2020) (0)
The Church'S Place: Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood by Omar McRoberts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, 173 Pages (2004) (0)

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