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Xavier Briggs

Sociology

#1590

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#1799

Historical Rank

#580

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Xavier Briggs's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Xavier de Souza Briggs is an American educator, social scientist, and policy expert, known for his work on economic opportunity, social capital, democratic governance, and leading social change. He has influenced housing and urban policy in the United States, contributing to the concept of the "geography of opportunity," which examines the consequences of housing segregation, by race or economic status, for the well-being and life prospects of children and families . He is a former member of the Harvard and MIT faculties, currently a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

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Xavier Briggs's Published Works

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Brown kids in white suburbs: Housing mobility and the many faces of social capital (1998) (685)
Moving Up versus Moving Out: Neighborhood Effects in Housing Mobility Programs (1997) (292)
Moving to Opportunity (2010) (208)
Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe (2008) (185)
Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty (2010) (166)
Social capital and the cities: Advice to change agents (1997) (160)
Using Social Capital to Help Integrate Planning Theory, Research, and Practice: Preface (2004) (130)
Foreword to The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America (2005) (128)
“Some of My Best Friends Are …”: Interracial Friendships, Class, and Segregation in America† (2007) (123)
Doing Democracy Up-Close: Culture, Power, and Communication in Community Building: (1998) (114)
Assisted Housing Mobility and the Success of Low-Income Minority Families: Lessons for Policy, Practice, and Future Research (2006) (86)
Communities of Practice: A New Tool for Government (2003) (64)
Bridging Networks, Social Capital, and Racial Segregation in America (2002) (64)
More Pluribus, Less Unum? The Changing Geography of Race and Opportunity (2008) (59)
Escape from the Ivory Tower: Student Adventures in Democratic Experiential Education (1995) (59)
Why did the moving to opportunity experiment not get young people into better schools? (2008) (55)
Struggling to stay out of high-poverty neighborhoods: housing choice and locations in moving to opportunity's first decade (2010) (49)
Has Exposure to Poor Neighbourhoods Changed in America? Race, Risk and Housing Locations in Two Decades (2009) (47)
Re-shaping the geography of opportunity: place effects in global perspective (2003) (46)
In the Wake of Desegregation (2013) (38)
Struggling to Stay Out of High-Poverty Neighborhoods: Lessons from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment (2010) (29)
Civilization in Color: The Multicultural City in Three Millennia (2004) (27)
After Katrina: Rebuilding Places and Lives (2006) (24)
Modernizing Democracy: Innovations in Citizen Participation (2006) (23)
Social Capital and Segregation: Race, Connections, and Inequality in America (2002) (19)
Do Better Neighborhoods for MTO Families Mean Better Schools? Brief No. 3. (2008) (19)
Maximum Feasible Misdirection: A Reply to Imbroscio (2008) (18)
Memphis Murder Mystery? No, Just Mistaken Identity (2008) (18)
Can Escaping from Poor Neighborhoods Increase Employment and Earnings? (2008) (16)
Housing opportunity, desegregation strategy, and policy research (2003) (15)
Traps and Stepping Stones: Neighborhood Dynamics and Family Well-Being (2004) (14)
How Does Leaving High Poverty Neighborhoods Affect the Employment Prospects of Low-Income Mothers and Youth?: Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment (2007) (12)
Despite obstacles, considerable potential exists for more robust federal policy on community development and health. (2011) (9)
Doing Democracy Up-Close: Culture, Power, and Communication in Community Building (1998) (8)
The Will and the Way: Local Partnerships, Political Strategy, and the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth. Faculty Research Working Paper Series. (2002) (8)
Mixed-Income Housing (2009) (7)
Inclusive Economic Growth in America?S Cities: What?S the Playbook and the Score? (2015) (7)
“Some of My Best Friends Are …”: Interracial Friendships, Class, and Segregation in America† (2007) (7)
The Will and the Way: Local Partnerships, Political Strategy and the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth (2002) (7)
Planning Together: How (and How Not) to Engage Stakeholders in Charting a Course (2008) (6)
Looking Back and Looking Ahead: CDBG and the Future of Federal Urban Policy (2014) (6)
L # 1 Perfect Fit or Shotgun Marriage ? : Understanding The Power and Pitfalls in Partnerships (2008) (6)
On half‐blind men and elephants: Understanding greater ethnic diversity and responding to “good‐enough” evidence (2008) (6)
Community Building: The New (and Old) Politics of Urban Problem-Solving in the New Century. Faculty Research Working Paper Series. (2002) (5)
Research Design for the Study of Mixed-Income Housing (2009) (4)
Conclusion Rethinking Immigrant Political Incorporation What Have We Learned, and What Next? (2013) (3)
STRATEGY TOOL # 4 Organizing Stakeholders , Building Movement , Setting the Agenda (2008) (3)
Networks, Power, and a Dual Agenda: New Lessons and Strategies for Old Community Building (2007) (2)
Community Building: The New (and Old) Politics of Urban Problem-Solving (2002) (2)
Civilization in Color: The Multicultural City in Three Millennia (2002) (1)
Creative placemaking: an interview with the Ford Foundation (2014) (1)
We Are All Negotiators Now : An Introduction to Negotiation in Community Problem-Solving by (1)
Finding Good Schools (2010) (1)
Places and Lives (2010) (1)
Networks of Democracy: Lessons from Kosovo for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond (2006) (1)
On half‐blind men and elephants: Understanding greater ethnic diversity and responding to “good‐enough” evidence (2008) (1)
When Your Neighborhood Is Not Your Community (2010) (0)
Creating a Just and Inclusive America (2015) (0)
Effective Teamwork (2019) (0)
Traps and Stepping Stones: Neighborhood Dynamics and Family Well-Being (2004) (0)
Housing Locations in Two Decades Has Exposure to Poor Neighbourhoods Changed in America? Race, Risk and (2009) (0)
11024-Urban_MTO Brief 5.qxd (2008) (0)
Moving to Security (2010) (0)
The Unequal Geography of Opportunity (2010) (0)
Research Designs for the Study of Mixed-Income Housing: Social Science Research Council (2009) (0)
After Katrina: Rebuilding Places and Lives (2006) (0)
Ghetto Poverty Before and After Katrina (2010) (0)
Great Expectations and Muddling Through (2010) (0)

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