Further Reading Suggestions

Chapter 1 Further Reading

Banton, Michael. 2011. “A Theory of Social Categories.” Sociology 45 (2): 187–201
A renowned social scientist offers 16 propositions on the origin and significance of social categories.
Macrae, C. Neil, and Galen V. Bodenhausen. 2000. “Social Cognition: Thinking Categorically about Others.” Annual Review of Psychology 51: 93–120
A summary of recent psychological research on the tendency to “construct and use categorical representations to simplify and streamline the person perception process.”
Nash, Jennifer. 2008. “Re-thinking Intersectionality.” Feminist Review 89: 1–15
Recognizing intersectionality as a primary concept in feminism and anti-racism, the article urges scholars to “grapple with intersectionality’s theoretical, political, and methodological murkiness to construct a more complex way of theorizing identity and oppression.”
O’Mara, Julie and Alan Richter. 2009. “Setting Standards for Organizational Diversity Work: It’s a Lot More than Culture Fairs and Ethnic Food.” The 2009 Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting, 157–163
A short online article (qedconsulting.com/files/OMara-Richter%202009%20Consulting%20Annual-Pfeiffer.pdf) giving some practical guidelines and benchmarks for promoting diversity in the workplace.
Pinder, Sherrow O. 2013. American Multicultural Studies: Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality. Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage Publications
An anthology of articles covering several issues of diversity, plus a few selections on education for inclusion.
Shutts, Kristin, Caroline K. Pemberton Roben, and Elizabeth S. Spelke. 2013. “Children’s Use of Social Categories in Thinking about People and Social Relationships.” Journal of Cognition and Development 14 (1): 35–62
A study of how three- and four-year-old children think about and use social categories.
Starr, Paul. 1992. “Social Categories and Claims in the Liberal State.” Social Research 59 (2): 263–295
An article exploring the inherent relationship between modern state governments and the practice of categorizing people.
Wiley, Shaun, Gina Philogène, and Tracey A. Revenson, eds. 2012. Social Categories in Everyday Experience
A publication of the American Psychological Association, asking how Americans use social categories and how those categories influence our thought and behavior.

Chapter 2 Further Reading

Daniels, Roger. 2002. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, 2nd ed. New York: HarperCollins
A study of immigration to the United States from the colonial era to contemporary times.
Dinnerstein, Leonard. 2009. Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration, 5th ed. New York: Columbia University Press
A relatively short history of American immigration from 1492 to the twenty-first century.
Eller, Jack David. 1997. “Anti-Anti-Multiculturalism.” American Anthropologist 99 (2): 249–260
An article by the author, exploring the arguments for and against multiculturalism in the United States.
Gerber, David. 2011. American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press
A title in the Oxford University Press “Very Short Introduction” series, discussing history and issues of immigration to the United States.
Messick, David M. and Diane M. Mackie. 1989. “Intergroup Relations.” Annual Review of Psychology 40: 45–81
A summary and analysis of psychological research on social groups and the relationships between groups.
Murphy, Michael. 2012. Multiculturalism: A Critical Introduction. London and New York: Routledge
A compact discussion of the types and controversies of multiculturalism.
Schrag, Peter. 2010. Not Fit for Our Society: Nativism and Immigration. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press
A critical look at immigration and American opposition to immigrants.
Takaki, Ronald. 2008. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, revised ed.New York: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
A survey of American immigration history from one of the eminent scholars of the field.
Waters, Mary and Reed Ueda, with Helen Marrow, eds. The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
An extremely comprehensive anthology, featuring chapters on particular cultural issues such as religion, language, and education as well as covering all world areas and a great number of specific countries that send immigrants to the United States.

Chapter 3 Further Reading

Banton, Michael. 1998. Racial Theories, 2nd ed. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
An analysis of ideas and theories about race from one of the eminent thinkers on race and ethnicity.
Hartigan, John. 2005. Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
A historical analysis of the concept of “white trash,” showing the term to be fluid, intangible, and subjective and addressing alternative theoretical approaches to the study of whiteness.
Jones, Jacqueline. 2013. A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America. New York: Basic Books
Through stories of African Americans from early American history to the present, the book exposes “the fluid, contingent, and contradictory idea of race, and the disastrous effects it has had, both in the past and in our supposedly post-racial society.”
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. 2011. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Arguing that the idea of black criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America, the book explores the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals in contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants.
Sowell, Thomas. 1994. Race and Culture: A World View. New York: Basic Books
An examination of the ideology of race by one of the leading twentieth-century scholars of race.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. 1997. “Why Are the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations about Race. New York: Basic Books
An important book that asserts “that straight talk about our racial identities—whatever they may be—is essential if we are serious about facilitating communication across racial and ethnic divides.
West, Cornel. 1994. Race Matters. New York: Vintage
A pivotal book on race in America, by one of the leading African American scholars and activists of the late twentieth century.
Williams, Kidada E. 2012. They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I. New York: New York University Press
A history of violence against African Americans from 1867 to 1919, powerfully illustrating the systematic and accepted brutality of white Americans bent on preserving their privilege, while raising important conceptual issues about the use of testimony and writing to create a counterpublic to challenge white hegemony and to foster a new, more active black identity and citizenship.

Chapter 4 Further Reading

“The New Americans” series, from Greenwood Press (Westport, CT and London)
This features titles on Arab Americans, South Asian Americans, various Southeast Asian American and Hispanic American nationalities, Nigerian Americans, and Soviet Jewish Americans .
Brown, Dee. 1970. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
A classic history of Native Americans, told from the Native American perspective.
Conover, Ted. 1987. Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens. New York: Vintage
A renowned journalist and culture writer describes his experiences on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border, traveling and working with Mexican immigrants.
Crow Dog, Mary. 1990. Lakota Woman. New York: HarperCollins
A stirring biography of a woman who was at the center of Native American culture and political activism in the crucial decade of the 1970s.
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. 2014. Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States. New York: W. W. Norton & Company
A new American history, told from the perspective of Hispanics, who were in the country from its earliest days.
Gonzalez, Juan. 2011. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, revised ed. New York: Penguin
A comprehensive discussion of the Hispanic American experience, including portraits of pioneering Latino immigrants and an assessment of the impact of Latino culture on American life.
Muckle, Robert J. 2012. Indigenous Peoples of North America: A Concise Anthropological Overview. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
A short introduction to the anthropology of native North America, necessarily general but also effective at communicating some of the uncertainties and controversies in Native American culture and history.
Shora, Nawar. 2010. The Arab-American Handbook: A Guide to the Arab, Arab-American, and Muslim Worlds, 2nd ed. Seattle, WA: Cune Press
An informative book—designed for teachers, businesses, law enforcement authorities, and others who interact with Arab Americans—providing a wide range of knowledge and commentary.
Takaki, Ronald. 1990. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. New York: Penguin
A classic study of Asian Americans.
Urrea, Luis Alberto. 2004. The Devil’s Highway: A True Story. New York: Little, Brown and Company
A shocking portrayal of the conditions endured by Hispanic immigrants who undertake the dangerous journey across the Mexico/U.S. border.
Wu, Jean Yu-wen Shen and Thomas C. Chen, eds. 2010. Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
A recent collection of writings by and about Asian Americans.
Zia, Helen. 2000. Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Written by a daughter of Chinese immigrants, the book explores “the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society.”

Chapter 5 Further Reading

Domhoff, G. William. 2013. Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich, 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill
An updated version of a classic text on how wealth and power operate in contemporary American society.
Fussell, Paul. 1992 [1983]. Class: A Guide through the American Status System. New York: Touchstone
A classic study of the American stratification system.
Herbert, Bob. 2014. Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America. New York: Doubleday
A new study of the struggles of the middle class and working poor in the United States, by a longtime columnist for The New York Times.
Laureau, Annette. 2011. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, 2nd ed. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press
A celebrated study of the effects of class on race and parenting, examining black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families.
Leicht, Kevin T. and Scott Fitzgerald. 2014. Middle Class Meltdown in America: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies, 2nd ed. New York and London: Routledge
A relatively short book exploring “the causes and consequences of growing middle-class inequality.”
Stevens, Mitchell L. 2007. Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
A study of how elite colleges and universities play a crucial role in the production and perpetuation of a privileged class in the United States.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2012. The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers our Future. New York: W. W. Norton & Company
Written by a Nobel Prize-winning economist, the book examines “how inequality affects and is affected by every aspect of national policy” and “offers a vision for a more just and prosperous future.”
Trattner, Walter I. 1999. From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America, 6th ed. New York: The Free Press
A very well-known analysis of the history of policies toward the poor in the United States from the colonial era to the present.

Chapter 6 Further Reading

Keen, Sam. 1992 [1991]. Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man. New York: Bantam Books
Like Robert Bly’s Iron John: A Book about Men, a classic statement of the late twentieth-century men’s movement in the United States.
Bronner, Simon J., ed. 2005. Manly Roots: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
An anthology of writings on the cultural sources of American masculinity.
Coryell, Janet and Nora Faires. 2011. A History of Women in America. New York: McGraw-Hill
A historical study that “integrates the stories of women in America into the national narrative of American history.”
de Beauvoir, Simone. 1971 [1949]. The Second Sex. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
One of the classic statements of the early mid-twentieth century women’s movement.
Dicker, Rory. 2008. A History of U.S. Feminisms. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press/Perseus Books
A short history of the multiple “waves” of American feminism.
Freedman, Estelle B., ed. 2007. The Essential Feminist Reader. New York: Modern Library/Random House
An anthology of feminist writing from the premodern era to today.
Gómez, Carlos Andrés. 2012. Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood. New York: Gotham Books/Penguin
A “powerful coming-of-age memoir” by a poet and actor, arguing that American men no longer have to submit to masculine stereotypes that entail the need “to be ready to fight at all times, treat women as objects, and close off his emotional self.”
Kimmel, Michael. 2008. Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men—Understanding the Critical Years Between 16 and 26. New York: HarperCollins
A study of the processes by which young men learn masculine roles and norms in the U.S., from a leading scholar of men and masculinity.
Rotundo, E. Anthony. 1993. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era. New York: Basic Books
A history of American manhood, emphasizing the social construction and historical evolution of masculinity.
Teipe, Emily M. 2011. Different Voices: Women in United States History, 2nd ed. Palo Cedro: CAT Publishing
A comprehensive textbook on American women’s history, featuring the diversity of African, Asian, Native American, and Latina women.

Chapter 7 Further Reading

Journal of Homosexuality
Journal of Bisexuality
Journal of GLBT Family Studies
International Journal of Transgenderism
Bronski, Michael. 2012. A Queer History of the United States. Boston, MA: Beacon Press
A book that “charts the breadth of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from 1492 to the 1990s.”
Burleson, William E. 2014 [2005]. Bi America: Myths, Truths, and Struggles of an Invisible Community. New York and London: Routledge
A study featuring personal experiences, history, and survey data on bisexuality in the United States.
Clarke, Victoria, Sonja J. Ellis, Elizabeth Peel, and Damien W. Riggs. 2010. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Psychology. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press
A textbook from a leading scholarly publisher on the psychology and experiences of homosexual and other gender non-conforming people.
Erickson-Schroth, Laura, ed. 2014. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
A collection of essays by and for the transgender population.
Gibson, Michelle A., Jonathan Alexander, and Deborah T. Meem. 2014. Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage
A comprehensive textbook covering the history, science, politics, and popular-culture portrayal of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.
Hall, Donald E. and Annamarie Jagose, eds. 2012. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader. London: Routledge
An anthology of literature about and by people of non-conforming gender.
Rimmerman, Craig A. 2015. The Lesbian and Gay Movement: Assimilation or Liberation?, 2nd ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
A short history and analysis of the gay and lesbian movement in America.
Teich, Nicholas M. 2012. Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue. New York and Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press
A short introduction to transgenderism.

Chapter 8 Further Reading

Journal of Sociolinguistics
“The Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages”
http://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/sum07/myths/creoles.pdf
Two chapters from a book on pidgin and creole languages.
Block, David. 2013. Social Class in Applied Linguistics. London and New York: Routledge
A novel study of class and language, examining issues of sociolinguistics, bi/multiculturalism, and second language acquisition.
Campbell, Lyle. 1997. American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
A survey of Native American languages and issues related to those languages.
Coates, Jennifer and Pia Pichler. 2011. Language and Gender Reader, 2nd ed. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell
A comprehensive anthology on the topic of gender and language.
Di Paolo, Marianna and Arthur K. Spears. 2014. Languages and Dialects in the U.S.: Focus on Diversity and Linguistics. New York and London: Routledge
An anthology on languages and language minorities in the United States.
Eckert, Penelope and Sally McConnell-Ginet. 2003. Language and Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
A textbook on the relationship between gender and language.
Garcia, Ofelia, with Hugo Baetens Beardsmore. 2009. Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell
A textbook on bilingual education policies and practices in the United States and beyond.
Johnson, Fern L. 1999. Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States. Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage
A textbook on “the rich cultural legacies and deep cultural dimensions” underlying languages and discourse styles in America.
Wolfram, Walt and Natalie Schilling. 2006. American English: Dialects and Variation, 2nd ed. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell
A discussion of regional, ethnic, and gender variation in American English, by one of the leaders of American sociolinguistics.
Wolfram, Walt and Erik R. Thomas. 2002. The Development of African American English. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell
A study of the controversial subject of African American speech patterns.

Chapter 9 Further Reading

Brewster, Melanie E. 2014. Atheists in America. New York: Columbia University Press
A unique collection of narratives by atheists of different races, ages, sexual orientations, and religious upbringings, “providing a nuanced look at living without god in a predominantly Christian nation”
Cimino, Richard P. and Don Lattin. 1998. Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium. New York: Jossey-Bass/Wiley
The authors “identify dozens of trends which will shape American religion in the next century and bring together the latest research and intimate portraits of Americans describing their beliefs, their religious heritage, and their spiritual search.”
Curtis, Edward E. IV, ed. 2008. The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press
A wide-ranging set of essays on the Muslim experience in America.
Eck, Diana L. 2001. A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation. New York: HarperCollins
A study of “the transformation of America’s religious landscape” and exploration of “the implications of this new religious reality” for a country that thinks of itself as Christian.
GhaneaBassiri, Kambiz. 2010. A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press
A quite complete study of Muslims in the United States over five centuries.
Hatch, Nathan O. 1989. The Democratization of American Christianity.  New Haven: Yale University Press
A reassessment of the early history of American Christianity, claiming that Christianity became a “popular religion” in which ordinary people were powerful actors.
Putnam, Robert D. and David E. Campbell. 2010. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. New York: Simon & Schuster
Based on large-scale survey data, Putnam (one of the leading scholars on American culture) and Campbell explore interfaith tolerance and culture wars in America.
Seagar, Richard Hughes. 2012. Buddhism in America, revised and expanded ed. New York: Columbia University Press
A treatment of Buddhist beliefs and various Buddhist sects in the United States.
Tweed, Thomas A. and Stephen Prothero, eds. 1999. Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
A collection of historical excerpts on Asian religions in the United States from the 1800s to the present.
Wuthnow, Robert. 2007. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
A book by one of the leading scholars of American religion, using a national survey and hundreds of interviews to examine the past, present, and future of American religion.
Wuthnow, Robert. 2012. Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America’s Heartland. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press
A book about contemporary religion-motivated conservative political activism in Kansas.

Chapter 10 Further Reading

“America’s Young Adults: Special Issue, 2014”
http://www.childstats.gov/pdf/ac2014/YA_14.pdf
A 100-page publication from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, exploring the state of the country’s young adults.
Bakan, David. 1971. “Adolescence in America: From Idea to Social Fact.” Daedalus 100 (4): 979–995
An essay from the heyday of adolescence in the United States, discussing how the new concept became an established “fact” of American life.
Calhoun, Richard B. 1978. In Search of the New Old: Redefining Old Age in America, 1945–1970. New York: Elsevier
A study of changing ideas about old age after World War II.
Cruikshank, Margaret. 2013. Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
A discussion of the social concept and socialization of old age.
Fass, Paula S. and Mary Ann Mason, eds. 2000. Childhood in America. New York and London: New York University Press
A collection of essays on the experience of childhood and childrearing from colonial America to today.
Jabour, Anya, ed. 2005. Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children: Documents and Essays. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
A unique combination of historical documents and essays on American children and families over the years.
Jacoby, Susan. 2011. Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age. New York: Pantheon Books
A popular author explores the contemporary cult of longevity, finding that “America has always been a ‘youth culture’ and that the plight of the neglected old dates from the early years of the republic.”
Kett, Joseph F. 1977. Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America, 1790 to the Present. New York: Basic Books
A history of adolescence in the United States from the independence to today, from one of the leading scholars of American adolescence.
Lerner, Jacqueline V. and Richard M. Lerner, eds. 2001. Adolescence in America: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO
A two-volume alphabetical collection of issues concerning adolescence, bringing together experts from biology, medicine, law, education, and social science.
Moran, Jeffrey P. 2000. Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
A study of “the emergence of the ‘sexual adolescent’ and the evolution of the schools’ efforts to teach sex to this captive pupil.”
Willis, Sherry L. and Mike Martin, eds. 2005. Middle Adulthood: A Lifespan Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
A reader on various aspects of middle age—historical, biological, psychological, and social.

Chapter 11 Further Reading

Barr, Donald A. 2014. Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health, 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press
A study of how social variables and inequalities impact the health of individuals and groups.
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, The. 2011. Our Bodies, Ourselves, 40th anniversary ed. New York: Touchstone
The latest version of the ground-breaking study of women’s health.
Daniel, Alyson J. 2010 Social Categories and Health Care Outcomes: African American Women and HIV Survival in the Urban South. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky
A doctoral dissertation that discusses a single health issue (HIV) as it relates to race, gender, and region in the United States; available online (uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article= 1093&context=gradschool_diss).
Kovner, Anthony R. and James R. Knickman, eds. 2011. Jonas & Kovner’s Health Care Delivery in the United States, 10th ed. New York: Springer
A well-established authority on American health-care policies and institutions.
LaVeist, Thomas Alexis. 2005. Minority Populations and Health: Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Wiley
A compact textbook on minority health issues, with chapters on African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans.
Purnell, Larry, D. 2012. Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach. Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis Company
Published by a company specializing in nursing, medicine, and health sciences, the author—a Ph.D. and registered nurse—shows how cultural competence can and must be applied to health care.
Rosenberg, Jessica and Samuel Rosenberg, ed. 2012. Community Mental Health: Challenges for the 21st Century. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge
An edited volume on mental health practice in community settings.
Schulz, Amy J. and Leith Mullings, eds. 2006. Gender, Race, Class, and Health: Intersectional Approaches. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Wiley
A collection of essays emphasizing the intersectionality of variables in health outcomes.
Ward, John W., ed. 2007. Silent Victories: The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
A historical study of American public health.
Williams, David R. and Michelle Sternthal. 2010. “Understanding Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51 (1, supplement): S15–27
An overview of sociological knowledge on racial and ethnic inequalities in health in America.

Chapter 12 Further Reading

Human Geography
Journal of Cultural Geography
Social & Cultural Geography
Chinni, Dante and James Gimpel. 2010. Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth about the “Real” America. New York: Penguin
The authors suggest that there are 12 distinct types of communities in the United States, which explain the distribution of behavior from voting to shopping.
Domosh, Mona and Roderick P. Neumann. 2011. The Human Mosaic: A Cultural Approach to Human Geography, 12th ed. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company
An established textbook providing a comprehensive introduction to the field of human or cultural geography.
Lersch, Kim Michelle and Timothy C. Hart. 2011. Space, Time, and Crime, 3rd ed. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press
A historical, theoretical, and practical study of the relationship between space and crime.
Miyares, Ines M. and Christopher A. Airriess, eds. 2007. Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
A wide-ranging collection of essays on ethnic groups and their spatial distribution and communities.
Peterson, Ruth D. and Lauren J. Krivo. 2010. Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide. New York: Russell Sage Foundation
A short volume from the American Sociological Association’s Rose Series in Sociology, on the spatial divide between races in the U.S. and its social consequences.
Sparks, P. Johnelle, Corey S. Sparks, and Joseph J. A. Campbell. 2013. “Poverty Segregation in Nonmetro Counties: A Spatial Exploration of Segregation Patterns in the U.S.” Spatial Demography 1 (2): 16–77
A technical paper on the relationship between space and poverty in American non-urban counties.
Woodard, Colin. 2011. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. New York: Viking
Journalist and historian Colin Woodard identifies 11 distinct cultural regions in North America, straddling the U.S./Canadian/Mexican borders.
Zelinsky, Wilbur. 1992. The Cultural Geography of the United States, revised ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall
A classic study of American cultural geography.