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• Why Blacks Help Less (tentative title).

• 2006 Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism among the Black Poor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.
• Revised October 7, 2010

• 2010 "Race and Trust," Annual Review of Sociology 36:453-75.
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• 2010. "A Test of Sincerity: How Black and Latino Service Workers Make Decisions about Making Referrals." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 629: 30-52.*Lead Article.
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• 2008 "A Question of Access or Mobilization? Understanding Inefficacious Job Referral Networks among the Black Poor," in Social Capital: Advances in Research, edited by Nan Lin and Bonnie Erickson. New York: Oxford University Press.
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• 2007 "Examining the Impact of Welfare Reform, the Economic Expansion, and the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Employment of Black and White Single Mothers” (with Mary Noonan and Mary Corcoran) Social Science Research 36:95-130.
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• 2005 "'Don't put my name on it': (Dis)Trust and Job-Finding Assistance among the Black Urban Poor." American Journal of Sociology 111(1):1-57. Lead Article; Spotlighted in Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds, Volume 5, No. 2.
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• 2003 "Social Capital and the Urban Poor: Extending the Scholarly Tradition of William Julius Wilson" Ethnic and Racial Studies 26(6): 1029-1045.
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• 2000 "Intraracial Diversity and Relations among African Americans: Feelings of Closeness among Black Students at a Predominantly White University" American Journal of Sociology 106(1):1-39. (with Mignon Moore)
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• 2000 "Mobilizing Social Resources: Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Social Capital and Persisting Wage Inequalities" The Sociological Quarterly 41(4):509-537.
• Reprinted in the college text, Prejudice and Discrimination in America: A Book of Readings, 2001, edited by Juan Gonzales. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.

• 2008 Review of Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System, by Douglas S. Massey (New York: Russell Sage Foundation) in Contemporary Sociology 37(3):235-6.
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• 2005 Review of Working and Growing Up in America, by Jeylan T. Mortimer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) in Social Forces 84(1):610-612.
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• 2004 Review of The Minority Rights Revolution, by John D. Skrentny (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002) in Contexts (summer): 65-6.
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• 2003 Review of Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America, by Jennifer Lee (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002) Social Forces 81(4):1520.
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• 2001 Review of A Poverty of Imagination: Bootstrap Capitalism, Sequel to Welfare Reform, by David Stoesz (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), American Journal of Sociology 107(2): 513-515.