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Race/Ethnicity

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A Darker Shade of Pale: The Influence of Local Context and Racial Identity on White Attitudes Towards Black Americans
A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department
A Seat at the Table? Racial/Ethnic & Gender Diversity on Corporate, Hospital, Education, Cultural & State Boards
Achieving Full Citizenship: An Institutional Approach to the Political Incorporation of Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada
Amenity-Based Housing Affordability Indexes
An Environmental Health Survey of Residents in Boston Chinatown
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Distribution
Asian Americans in Metro Boston: Growth, Diversity, and Complexity
Borrowing Trouble IV: High-Cost Mortgage Lending in Greater Boston, 2004
Borrowing Trouble VII: Higher Cost Mortgage Lending in Boston, Greater Boston, and Massachusetts, 2005
Boston at the Crossroads: Racial Trends in the Metropolitan Area in the 1990s and Beyond
Boston in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000
Boston's Population: Changes in Asian and Hispanic Populations
Change and the Illusion of Change: Evolving News Portrayals of African-Americans in a Local Market
Changing Patterns XII: Mortgage Lending to Traditionally Underserved Borrowers and Neighborhoods in Greater Boston, 1990 - 2004
Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism
City-Suburban Desegregation: Parent and Student Perspectives in Metropolitan Boston
Community Undesirability in Black and White: Examining Racial Residential Preferences Through Community Perceptions
Consequences for Victims: A Comparison of Bias- and Non-Bias-Motivated Assaults
Diversity Spreads Out: Metropolitan Shifts in Hispanic, Asian, and Black Populations Since 2000
Early Intervention in Low Birth Weight Premature Infants: Results at 18 Years of Age for the Infant Health Development Program
Enabling the Asian American Electorate: 2003 Voter Registration in Eleven Massachusetts Towns and Citites
End of a Miracle? Crime, Faith, and Partnership in Boston in the 1990s
Escaping from Crime of Inner Cities: Church Attendance and Religious Salience Among Disadvantaged Youth
Evidence for Action: Strengthening After-School Programs for All Children and Youth
Hate Crimes Hurt More
Help-Seeking Behaviors of Blacks and Whites Dying from Coronary Heart Disease
HIV/AIDS Housing Trends in Greater Boston
House by House, Block by Block
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Neighborhood Revitalization
Immigrant Homebuyers in Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts: Keys to Revitalization of Cities
Immigrants, Sustainability and Emerging Roles for Universities
Immigration and Local Urban Participatory Democracy: A Boston-Paris Comparison
Job Sprawl and the Spatial Mismatch Between Blacks and Jobs
Mapping and Measuring Social Disparities in Premature Mortality: The Impact of Census Tract Poverty Within and Across Boston Neighborhoods, 1999-2001
Massachusetts Charter Schools and Their Feeder Discricts: A Demoraphic Analysis
MCAS Scores and the Adams Scholarship: A Policy Failure
Mortgage Lending to Traditionally Underserved Borrowers and Neighborhoods in Greater Boston, 1990 - 2003
On the Demand for City Living
Out of Control: What Can We Learn from the End of Massachusetts Rent Control?
Overrepresentation of Bilingual and Poor Children in Special Education Classes: A Continuing Problem
Painting a Truer Picture of US Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Health Inequalities: The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project
Police and Riots, 1967 - 1969
Political Contributions by Asian Americans: An Analysis of the 2002 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Campaign
Protestant-Catholic-Buddhist: Korean Americans and Religious Adaptation in Greater Boston
Race, Affirmative Action, and Women's Employment in U.S. Highway Construction
Race, Gender, and Familial Status: Discrimination in One US Mortgage Lending Market
Report of the 2004 Boston Youth Survey
Segregation in the Boston Metropolitan Area at the End of the 20th Century
Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood
Strong Families, Strong Communities: A Report on the Family Circle Project
Subprime Mortgage Lending in Greater Boston, 2000 - 2003
The 2005 Boston Community Survey
The Color of Money in Greater Boston: Patterns of Mortgage Lending and Segregated Housing at the Beginning of the New Century
The New Face of Greater Boston: Meeting the Needs of Immigrants
The North American Naturalization Gap: An Institutional Approach to Citizenship Acquisition in the United States and Canada
The Roles of Race, Class, and Residential Preferences in the Neighborhood Racial Composition of Middle-Class Blacks and Whites
Tufts University’s Involvement in Public School Desegregation in Boston, Massachusetts, 1960-1980
Understanding the School Experiences of Six Learning Adaptive Behavior Students in a Boston Public Middle School
Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards 2005: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Urban Planning, Community Participation, and the Roxbury Master Plan in Boston
Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
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