The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth - Softcover

Orlando Patterson; Ethan Fosse; Andrew Clarkwest; Rajeev Dehejia; Thomas Deleire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067465997X ISBN 13: 9780674659971

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2016

Synopsis

"The Cultural Matrix" seeks to unravel an American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. This interdisciplinary work explains how a complex matrix of cultures influences black youth.

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Review:

"Considering recent tragedies and protests involving black youths, the police and the legal system along with the centuries of devastation wrought by racial bias a work exploring the impact of culture is both timely and welcome Patterson and his peers present a balanced, rigorous interpretation of culture, with ample empirical evidence, and include the actual voices and viewpoints of black youths They also suggest possible strategies and tactics for the ways in which culture can be understood and employed to improve the lives of black youths in all their rich diversity and potential." --Greg Thomas The Root (02/19/2015)

About the Author:

Orlando Patterson is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

Ethan Fosse is a doctoral student in Sociology at Harvard University.

Kathryn Edin is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and coauthor of Making Ends Meet (1997). Maria Kefalas is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. She is the author of Working-Class Heroes (California, 2003).

Alexandra A. Killewald is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

Jody Miller is Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri, St. Louis. She is the author of One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs, and Gender and recipient of the 2001 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology.

Josh Mitchell is the CEO of J&S Custom, Inc. Prior to this position, he was part of the executive management for a technology firm whose services included software and tool design for industryspecific applications.

Robert J. Sampson is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

Tommie Shelby is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University.

Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Christopher Winship is the Diker Tishman Professor of Sociology and member of the senior faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1992, he was Professor of Sociology and Statistics and by courtesy Economics at Northwestern University. His research focuses on statistical models for causal inference - most recently mechanisms and endogenous selection; how black clergy in Boston have worked with police to reduce youth violence; the effects of education on mental ability; pragmatism as the basis for a theory of action; the implications of advances in cognitive psychology for sociology; sociological approaches to how individuals understand justice. Since 1995 he has been editor of Sociological Methods and Research.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 067465997X
• ISBN 13: 9780674659971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688