CURRICULUM VITAE
STEPHEN STEINBERG
(February 2011)
ADDRESS
Department of Urban Studies
Queens College
Flushing, NY 11367
Tel: (718) 997-5132
Fax: (718) 997-5533
1 Washington Sq. Village, Apt. 10S
New York, NY 10012
Tel: (212) 254-7754
Fax: (212) 254-3234
email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1971
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1966
B.A., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1962
PRESENT POSITION
Distinguished Professor of Urban Studies (since August 2009)
PAST POSITIONS
Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Queens College, CUNY (1981-2009) and
Ph.D. Program in Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY.
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Queens College (1977 to 1980).
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (1976-77).
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Program in Sociology, Graduate School & University Center,
City University of New York (1976).
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Program in Sociology, Graduate School & University Center,
City University of New York (1971 to 1975).
Postgraduate Research Sociologist, Carnegie Studies of American Higher Education,
University of California, Berkeley (1970-71).
Postgraduate Research Sociologist, Five-Year Study of Anti-Semitism, Survey
Research Center, University of California, Berkeley (1964 to 1969).
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PUBLICATIONS
1. BOOKS
Race Relations: A Critique (Stanford University Press, September 2007). Featured in the
Research & Books Column of the Chronicle of Higher Education (November 2007): “A
Sociologist Offers a Harsh Assessment of How His Discipline Treats Race Relations,” by
David Glenn. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i12/12a01301.htm Excerpt on “The Dual Melting
Pot” published in the Black Agenda Report (May 17, 2007). Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Issues and Debates, edited anthology (Blackwell
Publishers, 1999).
Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1995). Recipient of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished AntiRacist Scholarship by the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American
Sociological Association. Selected for Choice's list of Outstanding Academic Books of
1996, and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America,
Outstanding Book Award. Expanded second edition, January 2001.
Anthologized excerpts include: "America Again at the Crossroads," in Les Back and
John Solomos, eds. Theories of Race and Racism (Routledge, 2000): 561-572;
"The Liberal Retreat from Race during the Post-Civil Rights Era" in Wahneema
Lubiano, ed., The House That Race Built (New York: Pantheon Books, 1997): 1347; The Ethnicity Reader, John Rex and Montserrat Guibernau, eds. Polity Press,
1997. "An American Dilemma: The Collapse of the Racial Orthodoxy of Gunnar
Myrdal," Journal of Blacks in Higher Education #10 (Winter 1995/1996): 64-70. "My
Education as a Teacher of Race Relations," CUNY Matters (March 1996).
Writing and Thinking in the Social Sciences (with Sharon Friedman), (Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1989).
The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America (New York: Atheneum, 1981.
Paperback edition by Beacon Press in 1982. Expanded second edition, 1989; third
edition, 2001. Listed in Herbert Gans, “Best Sellers by Sociologists,” Contemporary
Sociology, Vol. 26 (March 1997). Excerpts appear in scores of anthologies and textbooks.
The Academic Melting Pot: Catholics and Jews in American Higher Education. Carnegie
Commission Series on Higher Education (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974). Paperback
edition by Transaction Books, 1977.
The Tenacity of Prejudice: Anti-Semitism in Contemporary America, with Gertrude Jaeger
Selznick (New York: Harper & Row, 1969). Harper paperback edition, 1971. Republished
by Greenwood Press in 1979.
2. ARTICLES
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“Race and American Democracy,” in Where Do We Go From Here? American Democracy
and the Renewal of the Radical Imagination, Edited by Mark Major (Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, 2010): 179-205.
“Neoliberal Immigration Policy and Its Impact on African Americans,” Notre Dame Journal
of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy.” Vol. 23 (1), 2009, 209-221. Reprinted in the Immigration
and Nationality Law Review (INLR), University of Cincinnati College of Law (2010).
“The Myth of Concentrated Poverty,” The Integration Debate: Competing Futures for
American Cities, Chester Hartman & Gregory Squires, eds., Routledge, 2009: 213-228.
Entry on “Race Relations,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William
A. Darity, Jr., Vol. 7. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008: 28-31.
“Immigration, African Americans, and Race Discourse,” New Politics (Summer 2005): 39-54;
exchange with readers in the Fall issue. A shorter version reprinted in the Summer 2006
issue of the New Labor Forum, together with an exchange with critics in the Fall issue.
Reprinted in Race and Labor Matters, ed., Manning Marable, Immanuel Ness, and Joseph
Wilson (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006): 175-192.
“Barking Up the Wrong (Explanatory) Tree, Response to Richard Alba, “Beyond Race:
Recognizing Minority Status in Elite Contexts,” Ethnicities (Sage Publications, Vol. 6, 2006):
536-41.
Contributor to a symposium on Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma, Journal of Blacks in
Higher Education 42 (Winter 2003/2004): 75.
“Nathan Glazer and the Assassination of Affirmative Action,” New Politics (Summer 2003):
9-21.
“False Optimism on Race,” Socialism and Democracy, V. 17, No. 1 (Winter-Spring, 2003):
13-24.
“L’essor et le Declin de l’Affirmative Action Aux Etats-Unis,” Discriminations Ethniques,
Actions Positives: Des Politiques et des Pratiques En Debat, par Marco Martiniello et
Andrea Rea (Presses de l’Universite de Liege, 2003).
“Two Cheers for Glenn Loury . . . Or Maybe One,” New Politics #33 (Summer 2002): 110115. Reprinted in REMARKS (newsletter of the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of
the American Sociological Association).
"Race Relations": The Problem with the Wrong Name," New Politics, #30 (Winter 2001):
57-61. Published as the weekly selection on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s
Magazine and Journal Reader (February 7, 2001). Reprinted in Immigration and Race
Relations: Sociological Theory and John Rex, Tahir Abbas and Frank Reeves, eds.
(London: I.B. Taurus, 2007): chapter 8, and in Theories of Race, Jared Sexton, ed.
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(University Readers, 2010).
"Mending Affirmative Action," Boston Review (January 2001). Symposium republished in
Lani Guinier and Susan Sturm, Who’s Qualified? (Beacon Press, 2001). Reprinted in
Taking Sides: Race and Ethnicity, 4th ed.
Entry on "Employment," Civil Rights in the United States (Macmillan, 1999).
"The Cultural Fallacy in Racial and Ethnic Studies," in Immigrants, Schooling, and Social
Mobility: Does Culture Make a Difference? Hans Vermeulen and Joel Perlmann, eds. (St.
Martin's Press, 2000).
"Occupational Apartheid in America: Race, Labor Market Stratification, and Affirmative
Action" in Adolph Reed, Jr., ed., Without Justice for All (New York: Westview Press, 1999):
215-234.
"The Problem with Class-Based Affirmative Action," New Labor Forum (Fall 1998). A
longer version, "Confronting the Misuse of Class-Based Affirmative Action," appeared in
New Politics (Winter 1999): 28-32.
"Up From Slavery: The Myth of Black Progress," New Politics (Summer 1998): 69-81.
"Denying the Obvious: The Fallacies of AMERICA IN BLACK AND WHITE," Extra!, Vol. 11
(March/April 1998): 15.
"The Role of Social Science in the Legitimation of Racial Hierarchy," Race & Society,
Vol.1, No. 1 (1998): 5-14.
"Affirmative Action and Liberal Capitulation," Journal of the American Behavioral Scientist,
V. 41 (Fall 1997): 256-61.
"Bubbie's Challah," in Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz, eds., Eating Culture (SUNY Press,
1998).
"Science and Politics in the Work of William Julius Wilson," New Politics #22 (Winter
1997): 72-83. Reprinted in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 15 (Spring
1997): 109-117, and in Business and Society Review, No. 98 (Fall 1997): 68-75.
"The Affirmative Action Debate in the United States," The UNESCO Courier, V. 49 (March
1996): 17-21. Published by UNESCO in 30 languages.
"Affirmative Action and Liberal Capitulation," New Politics #20 (Winter 1996): 76-80.
Reprinted in The American Behavioral Scientist, V. 41 (October 1997): 256-61.
"The Liberal Retreat from Race during the Post-Civil-Rights Era," New Politics No. 17
(Summer 1994): 30-51.
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"The World Inside the Classroom: Using Oral History to Explore Racial and Ethnic
Diversity," Social Studies, Vol. 84 (March/April 1993): 71-73.
"Racisme et Science de Faux-Fuyant," in Michel Wieviorka, ed., Racisme et Modernite
(Paris: Editions La Decouverte, 1993): 321-326.
"Et Tu Brute: The Liberal Betrayal of the Black Liberation Struggle," Reconstruction, Vol. 2,
No. 1 (1992): 32-36.
"Occupational Apartheid," The Nation, V. 253 (December 9, 1991): 744-46. Reprinted in
Dorothy Seyler, Understanding Argument (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994): 421-424.
"The Politics of Memory," New Politics, Vol. III (Winter 1991): 64-70.
"The Underclass: A Case of Color Blindness," New Politics, Vol. II (Summer 1989): 42-60.
Comment, New Politics, Vol. II (Winter 1990): 48-58. Excerpt published in Racism in
America: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1991): 155-162.
"The Rise of the Jewish Professional: Case Studies in Inter-Generational Mobility," Ethnic
and Racial Studies, Vol. 9 (October 1986): 502-13. To be reprinted in George E. Pozzetta,
ed., Assimilation, Acculturation, and Social Mobility (Garland Publishing, 1991).
"Education and Ethnic Mobility in Historical Perspective," in Angela L. Carrasquilla and
Eva E. Sandis, Schooling, Job Opportunities, and Ethnic Mobility Among Caribbean Youth
in the United States, Fordham University, 1985.
"Human Capital: A Critique," Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Summer
1985): 67-74.
"Cranberries From a Political Bog," Op-Ed Page, New York Times (November 26, 1981).
"Ethnic Minorities in the United States: A Sociological Perspective," International Journal of
Group Tensions, Vol. 7 (1977): 130-47.
"Social Origins of American Scholars: A Reevaluation," Change Magazine (June 1976): 50
ff.
"My Day in Nicodemus: Notes from a Field Trip to Black Kansas," Phylon (September
1976): 243-49.
“‘Hester Street' and the Politics of Culture" (with Sharon Friedman), Jumpcut (Fall 1976).
“How Jewish Quotas Began,” Commentary 52 (September 1971): 67-76.
"The Language of Prejudice," Today's Education (February 1971): 14-17. Reprinted in
Dorothy U. Seyler, Language Power (New York: Random House, 1982). Reprinted by the
Anti-Defamation League as pamphlet widely disseminated to schools (New York, 1971).
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"Social Class and Ideology in the 1964 Presidential Election," with Gertrude Jaeger
Selznick, in Celia Heller, ed., Structured Social Inequality (New York: Macmillan, 1968):
216-25.
"What Happened in Wayne, New Jersey," with Rodney Stark, Harper's (August 1967). A
longer version, "It Did Happen Here," published as a pamphlet by the Anti-Defamation
League, New York, 1967, and reprinted in Peter Rose, The Ghetto and Beyond (New
York: Random House, 1969).
"Reform Judaism: The Origin and Evolution of a `Church Movement'," Vol. V (Fall 1965):
117-129. Reprinted in Charles Y. Glock, ed., Religion in Sociological Perspective
(Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1972): 221-34.
"The Anatomy of Jewish Identification," Review of Religious Research, Vol. 7 (Fall 1965):
1-8. Revised version in Charles Y. Glock, ed., Religion in Sociological Perspective
(Belmont, California: Wadsworth, 1972): 23-27.
3. BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS
Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America by William McKee Evans. Journal of
American History. Vol. 97 (June 2010): 150-51.
Race and Education: 1954-2007 by Raymond Wolters. Journal of American Studies. 2010.
More Than Just Race by William Julius Wilson. Beyond Chron (April 30, 2009). Reprinted
in racismreview.com (May 14, 2009).
In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States by
Victoria Hattam, Perspectives on Politics. Vol. 7 (2009): 189-91.
Talking about Race: Community Dialogues and the Politics of Difference by Katherine
Cramer Walsh. Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 123 (Spring 2008): 194-95.
“Social Capital and the Science of Obfuscation: Review of Mario Luis Small’s Villa Victoria:
The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio by Mario Luis Small. New Politics
(Winter 2008).
Silent Covenants: Brown v Board of Education by Derrick Bell. Review essay, Journal of
Blacks in Higher Education (Fall 2004). Reprinted as “The Magnificent Mirage,” New
Politics (Winter 2005).
Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries, by
Yen Le Espiritu. Democracy and Nationalism.
“Immigration through an Academic Kaleidoscope,” Review essay of three recent books on
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immigration, American Anthropologist, 106:3 (September 2004): 603-6.
“No Mere Atavism: Race as a World System,” review essay of The World Is a Ghetto:
Race and Democracy since World War II by Howard Winant. Contemporary Sociology, V.
32:4 (July 2003): 415-17.
American Jurisprudence in the Docket, review essay of Critical Race Theory: The Cutting
Edge, 2nd ed., Ed. by Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic. Journal of American Ethnic
History V. 21:1(Summer 2001): 124-5.
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race, Matthew
Frye Jacobson, American Journal of Sociology V. 105:3 (November 1999): 889.
The Racial Contract, Charles W. Mills, American Journal of Sociology V. 104:4 (January
1999): 1227-8.
The Ironies of Affirmative Action, John Skrentny, Social Forces, V. 76 (December 1997):
743-4.
"Bayard Rustin and the Rise and Decline of the Black Protest Movement," review of Jervis
Anderson's Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen, New Politics V. 6:3 (Summer 1997): 41-50.
Insecure Prosperity by Ewa Morawska, Contemporary Sociology, V. 26 (March 1997):
154-55.
The Bubbling Cauldron: Race, Ethnicity, and the Urban Crisis, Michael Peter Smith & Joe
R. Feagin, eds., Journal of American Ethnic History 16 (Fall 1996): 111-13.
The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell, Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, #10
(Winter 1995/1996): 109-110.
Review essay of Herbert Gans, People, Plans, and Policies, Contemporary Sociology,
21:2 (March 1992): 208-210.
Review essay of Stephen Carter: Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby,
Reconstruction, Vol. 1, Number 4 (1992): 115-117.
Immigrant America by Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut, Ethnic and Racial
Studies 14 (October 1991): 557-59.
Review essay of Jim Sleeper: The Closest of Strangers, "Shifting the Focus of Blame,"
New Politics, Vol. III, No. 3 (Summer 1991): 96-100. Reply to Sleeper (Winter 1991).
Poverty, Ethnicity, and the American City, 1840-1925 by David Ward, Journal of American
Ethnic History, 10 (Fall 1990/Winter 1991): 112-14.
"Can Ethnicity Be Counted?" Review essay of From Many Stands by Stanley Lieberson
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and Mary C. Waters, Contemporary Sociology V. 19 (March 1990): 182.
Ethnic Differences by Joel Perlmann, American Journal of Sociology V. 95 (March 1990):
1333.
More Like Us by James Fallows, The Nation, V. 248 (June 26, 1989): 895-6.
Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations by David W. Southern, The Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography (January 1989): 106-08.
"The White Backlash in Social Context: A Critique of Jonathan Rieder's Canarsie," Ethnic
and Racial Studies, 11:2 (April 1988): 218-24.
The Transplanted by John Bodnar, in Urban History Review, Vol. XV (June 1986): 117-18.
"Walking the Interdisciplinary Line," Review essay of The Changing Face of Immigrants:
Urbanism, Industrial Development, and Immigration in Detroit, 1880-1920 by Olivier Zunz,
Urban Affairs Quarterly, V. 20(September 1984): 115-19.
A Host of Tongues: Language Communities in the United States by Nancy Faires Conklin
and Margaret A. Lourie, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 13 (July 1984): 451.
Ethnicity, Identity, and History, Ed. by Joseph Maier and Chaim Waxman, Religious
Studies Review.
A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants Since 1880 by Stanley Lieberson,
Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 12 (January 1983): 93-94.
"From the Acadians to the Zoroastrians: What's Left Out," Review essay of The Harvard
Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, Ed. by Stephan Thernstrom et. al.,
Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 11 (September 1981): 621-22).
The Anatomy of SOCIAL INEQUALITY by Charles E. Hurst, Contemporary Sociology, Vol.
10 (May 1981): 477-78.
Ethnic Leadership in America by John Higham, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 8 (July
1979): 622-23.
A Coat of Many Colors: Jewish Subcommunities in the United States by Abraham D.
Lavender, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 20 (Winter 1979): 370-71.
Prejudice and Racism by James M. Jones, Contemporary Sociology (May 1974): 259-60.
The Unredeemed by Ronald Rubin, American Sociological Review, Vol. 35 (July 1970):
526-27.
The American Reform Rabbi: A Profile of a Profession by Abraham I. Feldman, Journal for
the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. VI (Spring 1967): 147-49.
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4. PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
“Civilizing the Primitive: From Robert Ezra Park to William Julius Wilson, From Tuskegee
to the Harlem Children’s Zone,” History of Sociology Invited Session: Race in the Making
of American Sociology, American Sociological Association (August 17, 2010).
“The Myth of Concentrated Poverty,” Conference on “The Integration Debate: Competing
Futures for American Cities,” The John Marshall Law School, Chicago (September 5-6,
2008).
Organizer of a thematic panel on Race and the World of Labor, Annual Meetings of the
American Sociological Society (Boston, 2008).
“Race and Neoliberal Immigration Policy,” Miniconference on Race, Labor, and Empire,
Northeastern University (August 2, 2008).
Panelist on author-meets-critic session on Victoria Hattam’s, In the Shadow of Race:
Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States, American Political Science
Association (Boston, 2008).
“Ethnic Politics and the Model Minority Myth,” working conference on the model minority
myth sponsored by Asian/Pacific/American Institute (March 14, 2008).
Author-Meets-Critics Panel, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston
Barrio. American Sociological Association (2007).
“Race Relations: The Science of Obfuscation,” Featured session on Racial Apathy, White
Ignorance, and Colorblindness, American Sociological Association (2007).
“The Origins and Ideological Underpinnings of the Model Minority Myth,” Society for the
Study of Social Problems (2007).
“Why Sociology Failed to Anticipate the Civil Rights Revolution: The Politics of Paradigm,”
American Sociological Association (2005).
“Race and the Fallacy of the Goose-Gander Rule,” Eastern Sociological Society (2004).
“Hoisted by Their Own Petards: The Pitfalls of Urban Ethnography,” American Sociological
Association (2003).
"’Employment Discrimination' or ‘Occupational Apartheid': The Politics of Discourse,"
American Economics Association (2001).
“‘Race Relations': The Problem with the Wrong Name," American Sociological Association
(2000).
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Panelist: "Author Meets Critic: Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract, American
Sociological Association (2000).
"Sociology: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?" Eastern Sociological Society
(1998).
"The Cultural Fallacy in Studies of Racial and Ethnic Mobility," International Workshop,
Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam (1996).
Author Meets Critics Session devoted to Turning Back, American Sociological Association
(1996).
"Sociology and the Racial Backlash," American Sociological Association (1996).
Presenter at conference on "Race Matters: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain," Princeton
University (1994).
"THE URBAN VILLAGERS: A Critique," Featured session of the Eastern Sociological
Society Meetings (1993).
"Racism and the Scholarship of Evasion," International Symposium on Racism (Paris,
1991).
"The Underclass: A Case of Color Blindness, Left and Right," presented at a featured
session of the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (1988).
Organized and presided at a featured session entitled "Whose American Dream: National
Symbol and Racial Reality," Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society (1987).
Critique of Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism by Jonathan
Rieder, featured Author-Meets-Critic session at the Meetings of the Eastern Sociological
Society (1986).
Discussant and Presenter, Section on "Human Capital, Class, and Culture," Meetings of
the American Economics Association (1984).
"Social Class: The Missing Variable in Racial and Ethnic Studies," Conference on Class
Versus Ethnicity: Economic Theories and Historic Realities, Brooklyn College (1984).
Participant in an author-meets-critics session on The Changing Face of Inequality by
Olivier Zunz, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (1983).
Participant in a featured author-meets-critics session on A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and
White Immigrants Since 1880 by Stanley Lieberson, Annual Meetings of the American
Sociological Association (1982).
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"The Ethnic Revival in Retrospect," Luncheon Roundtable, Annual Meetings of the
American Sociological Association (1978).
"The Politics of Ethnicity: A Reassessment of Third World Nationalism and White
Ethnicity," Luncheon Roundtable, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological
Association (1976).
"The Merits and Limitations of Survey Research," Luncheon Roundtable, Annual Meetings
of the Pacific Sociological Association (1975).
"The Fact and Fallacy of ‘Jewish Intellectualism' and ‘Catholic Anti-Intellectualism,'"
Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association (1973).
"Anti-Intellectualism and Jewish Identity," Annual Meetings of the Society for the Scientific
Study of Religion (1972)
"Some Trends in the Religious Composition of American Higher Education," Annual
Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association (1971).
"Political Anti-Semitism and Apathy,"( with Gertrude Jaeger Selznick), Annual Meetings of
the American Sociological Association (1968).
"Is Anti-Semitism a Social Class Phenomenon?" (with Gertrude Jaeger Selznick), Annual
Meetings of the American Sociological Association (1968).
"Social Class, Ideology, and Voting Preference," (with Gertrude Jaeger Selznick), Annual
Meetings of the American Sociological Association (1967).
5. PUBLIC LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
“Civilizing the Primitive: From Robert Ezra Park to William Julius Wilson, From Tuskegee
to the Harlem Children’s Zone,” Presentation to the Workshop of Race and Racial
Ideologies, University of Chicago (October 7, 2010).
“The Sociology of Race: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?” Annual Urban
Lecture, Hunter College (April 28, 2010). Another version at the University of Connecticut,
Storrs (October 2010).
Author-critic panel on Race Relations: A Critique, Left Forum (March 15, 2008).
Panelist, “Left Perspectives on Immigration Controversies,” Left Forum (March 15, 2008).
Lecture, “The Future of the Melting Pot,” University of Wisconsin at River Falls (April
2006).
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Symposium on “Class, Race, & Immigration: Possibilities and Pitfalls for Progressive
Politics,” Brecht Forum, March 2006.
Presentation on “Labor Conflict between Immigrants and African Americans,” Fulbright
Enrichment Seminar on the theme of immigration, New York City (April 9, 2005).
Keynote speaker, Freedom Fund Dinner, Broome/Tioga NAACP Branch, Binghamton,
New York (November 2001).
Keynote speaker, Student Forum, Urban Studies Program, University of WisconsinMilwaukee (March 2001).
Visiting Scholar, A.E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change,
University of Wisconsin at Madison (October 11-13, 1999).
"The Rise and Demise of Affirmative Action," Roundtable on "The Politics of Affirmative
Action and the Development of a Multicultural Citizenship: Euro-US Perspectives,"
Remarque Institute, New York University (November 1998).
Lecture, "Wither Ethnicity?" American Studies Lecture Series, Queens College (October
1998).
Lecture, "Race: Reality and Discourse," Department of Political Science, Barnard College
(December 1997).
Interviews following publication of Turning Back: WNYC and WBAI (New York) and WBOO
(Portland Oregon). Lectures at Connecticut College (March 1996), the University of
Connecticut (November 1995), Bates College (October 1995), and the Brecht Forum in
New York City (October 1995).
Brown University Conference on Affirmative Action, Paper on "Affirmative Action and
Liberal Capitulation" (March 1996).
Brown University, Participant on panel on The Bell Curve, and lecture on "The Racial
Backlash: Affirmative Action and Public Policy during the Post-Civil-Rights Era" (February
1995).
Lecture, "Blacks, Immigrants, and the American Myth of Success," Wagner College
Honors Program (September 1994).
Lecture in series on Multiculturalism in America, Queens College Scholar's Symposium,
(December 1992).
Moderator at Symposium on "The Columbian Legacy: Its Impact on Others," Queens
College (October 1992).
Provost's Lecture Series: "Race, Ethnicity and Class: A Conversation with Authors," John
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Jay College of Criminal Justice (March 1992).
"Demystifying Affirmative Action," Conference on "The P.C. Frame-Up: What's Behind the
Attack?" University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (November 1991).
"Black-Jewish Relations: A Discussion," The Village Temple, New York City (November
1991).
Participant in roundtable discussion on Race, Class and the American Labor Movement,
Harrington Center, Queens College (October 1991).
Keynote address, "Ethnicity in Contemporary America: A Critical Appraisal," Governor's
Conference on Ethnicity, Pennsylvania Heritage Affairs Commission (June 1990).
"The Underclass Debate." Versions of this paper were presented at the Seminar on
Cultural Pluralism, Columbia University (March 1990); Lecture, New York University
(March 1990); Socialist Scholars Conference (April 1990); and Colloquium on the
Underclass, CUNY Graduate Center (September 1990).
Presentation on Affirmative Action, Stuyvesant High School, (January 1990).
Lecture on Race, Class, and Public Policy, Public Policy Program, St. Peter's College,
Jersey City (February 1989).
"National Symbols and Racial Realities," Symposium on “The People and the
Constitution,” Graduate Center, City University of New York (May 6, 1988).
Lecture on "Myths about Racial and Ethnic Inequality in America," colloquium at Brown
University, followed by a seminar, Department of Sociology (February 1985).
Chair of panel on "Old and New Language Communities on Long Island," Conference on
Long Island Studies (April 1984).
Lecture, "The Reification of Culture in Racial and Ethnic Studies," Department of
Anthropology Program Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center (March 1984).
Lecture, "Ethnic Heroes and Villains in American Social Science," Vassar College
(November 1982).
Participant in a Community Documentation Workshop on New York's Lower East Side, St.
Mark's Church (May 1982).
Paper on "Education and Ethnic Mobility in Historical Perspective," Conference on
Schooling, Job Opportunities, and Ethnic Mobility Among Caribbean Youth in the United
States, Fordham University (April 1982).
Interviews after publication of The Ethnic Myth: WBAI (May 21, 1981); WKTU (May 31,
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1981); WNEW (June 9, 1981).
Presentation, Seminar on Cultural Pluralism, Columbia University (March 11, 1980).
6. RESEARCH GRANTS
PSC-CUNY Research Award, "Contested Symbols: The Political Uses of the Martin Luther
King National Holiday," 1993-94.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, "Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Intergenerational Mobility: A
Comparative Study," 1987-88.
Project Director, Six Generations of Black Families in Rural Kansas, grant from the Ethnic
Heritage Studies Program of the Office of Education, July 1977 to July 1978
(approximately $44,000). Historical research and the production of an educational film on
Nicodemus, Kansas, which is the last surviving all-black community from the "Exoduster
Movement" of the 1870s. Principal publication: "My Day in Nicodemus: Notes From a
Field Trip to Black Kansas," Phylon (September 1976): 243-249.
PSC-CUNY Research Award, The Impact of European Immigration on Black Americans,
1972-73. Renewed for 1973-74 and 1974-75. Principal publication: Chapter 7 of The
Ethnic Myth on "The Reconstruction of Black Servitude After the Civil War."
Postgraduate Research Sociologist, 1970-71, Carnegie Commission of American Higher
Education, Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley. Principal activity
analyze data collected in the Carnegie Surveys of Faculty and Students. Principal
publication: The Academic Melting Pot: Catholics and Jews in American Higher Education
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974).
Postgraduate Research Sociologist, 1964 to 1969, Five Year Study of Anti-Semitism,
Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley. Collaborated with Gertrude
Jaeger Selznick in the design and implementation of a national survey of American
attitudes toward Jews and other minorities. Principal publication: co-author of The
Tenacity of Prejudice: Anti-Semitism in Contemporary America (New York: Harper & Row,
1969).
7. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Writing Fellow, Queens College (Fall 2002).
Recipient of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship by
the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association for
Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (1995).
Selected for Choice's list of Outstanding Academic Books of 1996, and the Gustavus
Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, Outstanding Book Award.
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Faculty Fellowship (one-semester leave at full pay) Fall, 1991.
Mellon awards for cross-disciplinary teaching, Queens College, 1980-81 (developed and
co-taught course on The History of Queens) and 1982-83 (developed and co-taught
course on Ethnic Literature).
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research,
1976-77.
Stanley N. Tasheira Scholarship in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1968-69.
Science Fellowship, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1966-67.
Free Press Award in Sociology (for the outstanding first-year student), University of
California, Berkeley, 1963.
High Honors in Sociology, Brown University, 1962.
8. PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY
News Media
Interviewed on CUNY Radio (September 24, 2009).
Interviewed on Radio/Life, New Zealand, on Barack Obama’s speech on race (March 18,
2008).
Featured in an article on Obamamania in NRC Handelsblad, a Netherlands newspaper
(February 2, 2008). Quoted in Marc Hujer and Klaus Brinkbaumer, in Der Spiegel
(February 11, 2008).
Op-Ed, “The Melting Pot is NOT Broken,” Op. ed., San Francisco Chronicle (October 9,
2007): http://www.sfgate.com/cgi‐bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/09/ED0ISM957.DTL&feed=rss.opinion Quoted in M. Junaid Alam, “Diversity Hurts Civic Activism,” Queens Times Ledger
(September 26, 2007).
Quoted in Jonathan Tilove, “Barack Obama: Is this the Dream?” Newhouse News Service
(February 11, 2007).
Letter, New York Times, “Smarty Jones and the American Dream” (June 8, 2004), p. A24.
Cited in articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education: 11/27/91, 5/11/94, 9/8/95, 9/29/95,
7/19/02, 2/13/04, 3/12/04
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“Liberal Bad Faith in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina,” with Adolph Reed. Published in The
Black Commentator, an online journal, May 4. 2006. Reprinted in the New Orleans
Tribune, and in the newsletter for the Political Sociology section of the American
Sociological Association. A version published in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Race
and Ethnicity, 2006.
Quoted in Jonathan Tilove, “‘Latino Tsunami’ Alters Minority Politics: 1965 Law Welcomed
Mass Immigration,” Times–Picayune, New Orleans (October 2, 2005): A32.
Quoted in “Compassionate Conservatism; ‘Academic Exorcism’; Race Relations,”
Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 47(Feb 23, 2001): B6.
Op-Ed on racial profiling, Newark Star-Ledger (April 19, 1999), “One Nation, After All?
(March 29, 1998), Section 7, page 4.
Cited in Orlando Patterson, “Racism Is Not the Issue,” Op-Ed, New York Times
(November 16, 1997). Section 4, p. 15.
Cited in Ellis Cose, “Blinded by Color,” Newsweek (September 25, 1995), p. 72.
Subject of article, “Affirmative Action Was Resort Only after Civil Rights Failure,” New York
Beacon (September 13, 1995), p. 14.
Op-Ed, “Cranberries From a Political Bog,” New York Times (November 26, 1981). Section
A, p. 14.
Letter, New York Times, “Wages of Inflation” (December 18, 1980), A30.
Other contributions to public venues:
Letters to The Nation: July 15, 1996; February 28, 2000; April 10, 2006; November 17,
2009.
Keynote speaker, Freedom Fund Dinner, Broome/Tioga NAACP Branch, Binghamton,
New York (November 2001).
Interviewed on WBAI and WNYC following the 1995 publication of Turning Back: The
Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy.
Backtalk column on affirmative action, Mother Jones (November/December issue, 1997.
Judge, History Day, Museum of the City of New York (2007 and 2008). Recruited other
CUNY faculty to serve as judges for research papers and exhibits.
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9. Book Endorsements
Noel Cazenave. The Urban Racial State. Routledge, 2011.
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg. Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American
Century. Princeton, 2006.
Alyson Cole, The Cult of True Victimhood. Stanford University Press, 2006.
Pyong Gap Min. Encyclopedia of Racism. Greenwood Press, 2005.
Melanie E. L. Bush. Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Introduction to Deirdre Royster. Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks
Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs. University of California Press, 2003.
Fred L. Pincus, Reverse Discrimination: Dismantling the Myth. Lynne Reiner, 2003.
Mary C. Waters. Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America. University of California
Press, 1990.
Thomas Ross. Just Stories: How the Law Embodies Racism and Bias. Beacon Press,
1999.
Yossi Shain. Marketing the American Dream Abroad. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
10. Manuscript Reviews (since 1997):
Beacon Press, Cambridge University Press, Kansas University Press, Lynne Reiner
Press, Prentice-Hall, Rowman & Littlefield, Rutgers University Press, Stanford University
Press, Temple University Press, University of California Press.
11. Grant Proposal Reviews (since 2000):
MacArthur Foundation
National Science Foundation
Russell Sage Foundation.
12. Other Professional Activities
Editorial advisory board, Ethnic Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Culture, Race, and
Ethnicity, 2005-2007.
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Editorial Board, Race and Society, 1996--2006.
Faculty workshop on "Writing across the Curriculum," Brooklyn College (May 1994).
Visiting Scholar, Urban Research Center, New York University's Robert F. Wagner
Graduate School of Public Service, 1991-92.
Consultant, Departmental Affirmative Action Committee, AT&T Bell Laboratories,
Whippany, New Jersey, September 8, 1989.
Co-Chair, Seminar on Cultural Pluralism, Columbia University, 1980-82.
Contributing editor, Review of Religious Research, 1978-80.
Consultant, Social Science Research Council, conference on current thinking and
research on ethnicity (April 1976).
13. UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Faculty Fellowship Publications Program
Mentor, 2004-2008. Responsibility for conducting a seminar for junior
faculty in the social sciences selected for participation in FFPP. The goal to provide
mentoring and feedback that will result in publication and career advancement.
PSC-CUNY RESEARCH AWARD PROGRAM
Chair, Urban Studies Panel, 2002-05.
Sociology Panel, 1992-95.
Interdisciplinary Panel, 1989-91.
Chair of the Urban Focused Research Panel (1981-84) and served on the University
Committee on Research.
Ph.D. Program in Sociology:
Executive Committee (1990-94).
Membership Committee (1990-94).
Department of Urban Studies:
Personnel and Budget Committee (1977-1990, 1992-1998, 2001-current).
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Undergraduate Advisor (1977-current).
Evaluator of Life Achievement Credits for the ACE Program (1977-current).
Queens College:
Presentation to the Political Science Club on “Affirmative Action in Historical Perspective.”
November 9, 2009.
Panel on the significance of Obama, Black History Month, February 23, 2009.
Presenter, Conference on African Americans and Latinos, 2006.
Lecture, “False Optimism on Race,” Black History Month, 2005.
“Remembering Hortense Powdermaker,” FYI.
Lecture, "Reflections on the National Conversation on Race," CUE Program, Queens
College (May 15, 1998).
Participant in panel discussion of Hugh Thomas's The Slave Trade (May 1998).
World Studies Planning Committee (1990-91).
Selection Panel for fellows for the Rockefeller Fellowship Program, Asian/American Center
(March 1991).
Selection Committee for Michael Harrington Center Chair (1990-91).
Selection Committee for Director of the Writing Skills Workshop (1990).
Represented Queens College at a colloquium on "Teaching at CUNY," Baruch College
(May 19, 1989).
Tricentennial Committee (1983).
Ethnic Studies Project (1980): Summer workshop for secondary school teachers on "New
Approaches to Ethnic Studies."
Other CUNY Events
Lecture, “The New Racism,” Spring Urban Studies Conference, LaGuardia Community
College. April 2006.
Presentation at Urban Studies Conference, The Future of Us All: Race, Ethnicity, Class,
and Gender—Can We All Get Along?” LaGuardia Community College. March 30, 2004.
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Moderator, Conference on Faculty Diversity, LaGuardia Community College (May 8,
1998).
"The Retreat from Racial Justice," Faculty Seminar on Cultural Pluralism, LaGuardia
Community College (September 1997).
Presenter at the President's Dinner Forum, CUNY Graduate School and University Center
(March 1996).
Faculty workshop on "Writing across the Curriculum” (with Sharon Friedman), Brooklyn
College (May 1994).
"Social Class: The Missing Variable in Racial and Ethnic Studies," Conference on Class
versus Ethnicity: Economic Theories and Historic Realities, Brooklyn College (1984).
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Urban Sociology
Sociology of Knowledge
COURSES TAUGHT SINCE 1980
Ph.D. Program in Sociology:
Race Relations: Toward a New Paradigm (Fall 2008).
Race Relations: A Paradigm in Crisis (Fall 2002).
The Melting Pot in American Social Thought (Fall 2001).
Racial and Ethnic Relations: A Critique of the Sociological Canon (Fall 2000).
The Shifting Paradigm in Race Relations since World War II (Fall 1993).
Racial and Ethnic Stratification (Fall 1982 & 1983; Fall 1987-1990).
Department of Urban Studies:
M.A. Thesis Seminar
Racial and Ethnic Groups in Urban America
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Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy
Urban Research Methods
Urban Poverty
Social Science Honors Seminar (co-taught, Spring 1988)
Ethnic Literature (co-taught, Spring 1983)
History of Queens (co-taught, 1980-81)