Recent research suggests that racial residential segregation may be detrimental to health. This study investigates the influence of neighborhood racial isolation on obesity and considers the role of neighborhood disorder as a mediator in this relationship. For the city of Philadelphia, we find that residence in a neighborhood with high black…

There are sizeable earnings differentials by gender and race in the U.S. labor market, with women earning less than men and most racial/ethnic minority groups earning less than whites. It has been proposed in the previous literature that the effects of gender and race on earnings are additive, so that minority women suffer the full disadvantage of…

Central question addressed is why people of African descent show different rates of acculturation and different degrees of racial distinctiveness in Mexico, Brazil and the United States. Acculturation is greater in Mexico and the U.S. than in Brazil. Mexico makes the least racial distinctions, the U.S. the most, and Brazil is in between.…

Findings indicate that race and quality of perceived health are the most salient predictors of satisfaction. Marital status and social participation are consistent but relatively weak determinants and SES displays a negligible relationship with satisfaction. While age is related to satisfaction, the direction of the relationship is opposite from…

Children change their racial preference across the multiple requests made when traditional measures of racial preference are administered. Piaget views these changes as self-contradictory and due to cognitive incapacity. Data are, however, held to support the view that children intend to express a liking for dolls of both races. (RJ)

Using a sample of Louisville high school senior girls and their mothers, this paper tests whether the differential presence of role modeling processes helps to explain why higher percentages of black than white women work. (Author/AM)

Panel data on children's friendship choices are used in this paper to investigate the effects of sex, race, and academic achievement on the formation of new friendships and on the stability of existing friendships. (Author/EB)

This study examines the impact of Black population size and rate of increase on White population change in American suburbs between 1960 and 1970. The data indicate that there is no tipping point. (Author)

Concludes that socioeconomic factors and racial discrimination account for some of the variation in institutionalization for blacks and whites. Available data are inconclusive as to whether blacks are over represented in mental hospitals because they suffer from greater mental impairment than whites. (Author/AM)

Health statistics show wide variations in risk and determinants of infant death across racial and ethnic subpopulations, a within-group advantage to being an immigrant, and the same direction of effects for mortality risk factors across groups. Efforts to lower infant mortality should benefit all groups. Contains 83 references. (TD)

The finding that mobility significantly affects expected completed family size among this sample of Mexican Americans provides evidence that membership in minority groups may be a factor mediating the relationship between mobility and fertility. (Author)

Concludes that many interracial contact situations that are perceived as being of equal status by whites are not perceived in the same manner by blacks, suggesting a modification of the traditional equal status contact hypothesis as well as having direct implications for policy making in school desegregation. (Author/AM)

A resource approach to economic segmentation more adequately explains racial income inequality in metropolitan areas, particularly for males, than do traditional models. The resource approach emphasizes job and production factors, such as firm size and unionization, as well as social organizational factors in local labor markets. Contains 48…

Finds that absolute and relative probabilities of employment for young Black central-city males is negatively related to the city's proportion of Blacks below 50 percent, and positively related above 50 percent. Uses 1980 census data on 17-20-year-old central-city males. Discusses related social theories. Contains 39 references. (SV)

Among 13,017 national survey respondents, white males, white females, black females, and, to a lesser extent, Hispanic females, who experienced separation from a biological parent during childhood had lower levels of occupational attainment than those who lived continuously with both parents, but the effects were largely mediated by education and…