Publications

Demographics Report

Information on Pittsburgh Racial Demographics: Differences and Disparities can
be found here.

Annual Report

CRSP Annual Report 2006-2007 (2 mb pdf.)

Special Journal Issue and Book

Haworth Press will publish a collection of papers by center-associated faculty as a special issue of their journal Social Work and Public Health (recently renamed from the Journal of Health and Social Policy.) "Racial Disparity in Mental Health Services: Why Race Still Matters" was edited by Ralph Bangs, Ed Ricci, and Larry E. Davis. Haworth will also publish the collection as a book with the same title.

Click here for the volume's introduction by Larry E. Davis, director of the center and dean of the School of Social Work.

The articles and authors are:

Culture and Race in Provider-Client Relationships
Janet Schofield, Lu-in Wang, and Pat Chew

Reconceptualizing Access: A Cultural Competence Approach to Improving the Mental Health of African American Women
Valire Carr Copeland and James Butler

Depression in African American and White Women with Low Incomes: The Role of Chronic Stress
Nancy K. Grote, Sarah E. Bledsoe, Jill Larkin, and Charlotte Brown

Racial Differences in Mental Health Service Utilization Among Low-Income Women Daniel Rosen, Richard M. Tolman, Lynn A. Warner, and Kyaien O. Conner

African American Consumers’ Perceptions of Racial Disparities in
Mental Health Services
Christina E. Newhill and Daniel Harris

The Need to Adapt Standardized Outcomes Measures for Community Mental Health
Catherine G. Greeno, Courtney Colonna-Pydyn, and Martha Shumway

Lessons Learned: The Unintended Consequences of Policy Decisions Affecting Maternity Services for Pittsburgh’s African Americans
Carolyn Carson

Disparities in Health Status and Health-Service Utilization Among Hispanic Ethnic Subgroups
Ravi K. Sharma, Kathleen A. McGinnis, and Patricia I. Documèt

Race/Ethnicity, Religiosity and Adolescent Alcohol, Cigarette and Marijuana Use
John M.Wallace, Jorge Delva, Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O’Malley, John E. Schulenberg, Lloyd D. Johnston, and Christopher Stewart

Ways with Children: Examining the Role of Cultural Continuity in Practices and Beliefs About Working with Low-Income Children of Color
Eva Marie Shivers, Kay Sanders, Alison Wishard, and Carollee Howes

Minority Business Bidding For Local Government Contracts: The Complexity of Availability
Ralph Bangs, Audrey Murrell, Monique Constance-Huggins

Journal Articles

Bangs, R. The Cost-effectiveness of High School Education Programs for African Americans and Latinos, under review by Negro Educational Review.

Davis, L. & Bangs, R. (2007). The Center on Race and Social Problems at the University of Pittsburgh, Research on Social Work Practice, 17, 5: 632-634.

Davis, L., Ajzen, I., Williams, T. & Saunders, J. (2002). Completing high school: an application of the theory of planned behavior on the decision of African American students to stay in school. Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 810-819.

Davis, L., Saunders, J., Johnson, S. Miller-Cribbs, J., Williams, T., & Wexler, S. (2003). Predicting positive academic intentions among African American males and females. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 2306- 2326.

Delva, J., Wallace, Jr., J.M., O’Malley, P.M., Bachman, J.G., Lloyd D. Johnston, L.D. & Schulenberg, J.E. (2005). The epidemiology of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine use among Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and other Latin American eighth-grade students in the United States: 1991–2002. American Journal of Public Health, 95(4), 696-702.

Goodkind, S., & Miller, D. L. (2006). A widening of the net of social control? “Gender-specific” treatment for young women in the U.S. juvenile justice system. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 17(1), 45-70.

Goodkind, S., Ng, I., & Sarri, R. C. (2006). The impact of sexual abuse in the lives of young women involved or at risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system. Violence Against Women, 12(5), 456-477.

Hausmann, L. R.M., Schofield, J. W., & Woods, R. L. (2007). Sense of belonging as a predictor of intentions to persist among African American and White first-year college students. Research in Higher Education, 48(7), 803-839.

Johnson, S. D., Davis, L. E., & Williams, J. H. (2004). Enhancing socialwork practice with ethnic minority youth. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 21(6), 611-627.

Murrell, A., Bangs, R., & Constance-Huggins, M. (In press). Dismantling racial disparities in public contracting: applying Martin Luther King’s perspectives on economic and social justice, Business and Society.

Spjeldnes, S. Interparental relations, parenting, maternal depressive symptoms, and child behavior in Black, single-mother families with low income. Under review, Journal of Family Issues. 

Spjeldnes, S., & Choi, J. Direct and indirect effects of interparental relationship quality on child behavior problems in Black, nonmarital families with low income. Under review by the Marriage & Family Review, in press. 

Vaughn, M. G., Wallace, J.M., Jr., Davis, L.E., Fernandes, G. & Howard, M.O. (In Press). (2007). Variations in mental health problems, substance use, and delinquency among African American and Caucasian juvenile offenders: implications for reentry services. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 10, 10:1-20.

Wallace, J.M., Jr., Goodkind, S.G., Wallace, C.M., Bachman, J. (In Press). Racial/ethnic and gender differences in school discipline among American high school students: 1991-2005. Negro Educational Review.

Wallace, J.M., Jr., Yamaguchi, R., Bachman, J.G., O’Malley, P.M., Schulenberg, J.S., and Johnston, L.D. (2007). Religiosity and adolescent substance use: the role of individual and contextual influences. Social Problems, 54, 2:308-327.

Williams, J., Davis, L., Johnson, S., Williams, T., Saunders, A., & Nebbitt, V. (2007). Substance use and academic performance among African American high school students, Social Work Research, 31, 3:151-161.

Yamatani, H. (2006). Unveiling patterns of salary inequity: suggested measurement strategy for health care organizations. Journal of Health and Social Policy, 21(4), 95-108.

Yamatani, H. A conceptual scheme for program optimization through evaluation: tadiso experience. Under review by Journal of Maintenance in the Addictions.

Yamatani, H., Engel, R., & Spjeldnes, S. Child welfare worker caseload: what’s just right? Under review by Journal of Social Work.

Book Chapters

Banks, J., Cookson, P., Gay, G., Irvine, J., Nieto, S., Schofield, J., & Stephan, W. (2006). Essential principles for teaching and learning for a multicultural society. In W. D. Hawley (Ed.), The Keys to Effective Schools. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Schofield, J.W. (2006). The colorblind perspective in school: Causes and consequences. In J.A. Banks & C.A. McGee Banks (Eds.) Multicultural education: Issues and perspectives (6th ed), (pp. 271-295). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Schofield, J.W. & Bangs, R. (2006). Conclusions and Further Perspectives, Chapter 5 in Schofield, J.W., Minority Group Membership, Migration, Background, and Academic Achievement. Berlin, Germany: Social Science Research Center.

Reports

Linn, R. L., Borman, K. M., Haertel, E. H., Hanushek, E. A., Schofield, J. W., Trent, W. T., Welner, K. G., & Chi, W. (2007). Race-conscious policies for assigning students to schools: Social science research and the Supreme Court cases. Washington, DC: National Academy of Education.

Wallace, J.M., Jr., Myers, V.L., Osai, E.R. (2004). "Faith Matters: Race/Ethnicity, Religion, and Substance Use." A research report published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Wallace, J.M., Jr., Myers, V.L., Holley, J. (2004). "Holistic Faith-based Development: Toward a Conceptual Framework." A conceptual article and case study published by the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

Encyclopedia Entry

Schofield, J. W. (In Press). School desegregation. In R. T. Schaefer (Ed.), Encyclopedia of race, ethnicity, and society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Opinion-Editorials

Bangs, R., and Davis, L.E. "Pittsburgh's Shame." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 1, 2007.

Bangs, R., Murrell, A., and Constance-Huggins, M. "Opportunities for minority contracting in Pittsburgh." New Pittsburgh Courier, February 16-20, 2005.

Davis, L.E. "A Black History Month Valentine." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 8, 2004.

Davis, L.E. "A Gender Gap in Black and White." Pittsburgh Post Gazette, July 29, 2003.

Books

Davis, Larry E. (2004). Black and Single: Finding and Choosing a Partner Who's Right for You, 3rd edition. Chicago: Agate Publishing, 2004.

CRSP Whitepaper

Springer, Eric. The Role of Compromise in the Development of American Race Relations. An extension of a lecture delivered at the CRSP Speaker Series, September 11, 2003. (200kb pdf.)