Department of Geography,
105 GG Building,
tel: (706) 542-4109, fax: (706) 542-2388
Employment History:
Education:
Research Interests:
I have broad interests in the intersections between racial and
ethnic identity, urban spatial form, and economic disadvantage. My
research has three primary substantive foci. First, I am examining (with
Mark Ellis and Richard Wright) the interplay between racial identity and
neighborhood location for mixed-race families and multiracial people. We are currently funded by a grant from the
National Science Foundation, and had previous funding from the Russell Sage
Foundation.
Second, I examine housing markets and racial and ethnic
segregation in cities. I address the issue of discrimination in mortgage
lending in several ongoing projects. Here, especially, complex interactions
between race and place affect individuals' economic experiences. Current
understandings of racial discrimination and redlining are inadequate -- the two
forms of discrimination overlap and yet are distinct. Blacks suffer
disadvantage in some predominantly white suburban areas, yet enjoy an advantage
in some predominantly black inner-city neighborhoods. Furthermore, blacks
in higher class positions experience even stronger effects of neighborhood
racial composition.
My third substantive focus examines the impact of geographic
contexts on the labor market experiences of marginalized groups. Much of
my work to date has focused on the role of metropolitan labor market structure
in shaping and conditioning the activity choices of male youths. My
current work in this area addresses two broad themes. One, how are
individuals from various social and economic groups differentially affected by
geographic contexts? Two, how does geographic scale affect our
understanding of contextual effects? I expect that some groups are more
sensitive to context than others; moreover, different groups are sensitive to
contexts formed at different geographic scales. I focus on
neighborhood-scale effects in one current project that examines the impact of
living in poor neighborhoods during adolescence on adult labor market experiences.
Recent Research, Publications and Activities:
Funded Research
2001-2004 "'Marrying Out' and Fitting In: Interracial
Households, Residential Segregation, and the Identity of Multiracial
Children," with
2000-2001 "FHA, Neighborhood
Dynamics, and Housing Market Segmentation," with Elvin K. Wyly and Bradley Scriber, Ford Foundation.
2000-2001 "Constructing Racial and Spatial Identities:
Residential Choice by Interracial Couples," Mentoring Fellowship Program, Institute
for Behavioral Research, University of
2000 "The Top Ten Neighborhoods
for Affordable Homeownership," with Ekvin K. Wyly, Thomas J. Cooke, and Daniel J. Hammel,
Fannie Mae Foundation.
2000 "Conflicted Racial and Spatial Identities: Neighborhood Choice
and Settlement Patterns for Interracial Couples in
1998 "Expanding Mortgage and Homeownership Opportunities III:
The Color of Money Revisited," Investigator on research funded by the Fannie
Mae Foundation, David Listokin and Elvin K. Wyly, Rutgers University, Co-Principal Investigators.
1998-1999 "Public Housing and the Neighborhood Distribution
of Crime in
1997 "The Effect of Adolescent Neighborhood Poverty on Adult
Employment," with Stephen Mulherin, Competitive
Grant, Center for Labor Research, The
1996-1997 "Lending Institutions and the Community: An
Analysis of Mortgage Lending in
1994-1995 "Race and Redlining: A Contextual Analysis of
Mortgage Lending Discrimination in
1994-1995 "Metropolitan Spatial Structure and the Employment
of Male Youths," Competitive Grant, Center for Labor Research,
The
1994-1995 "Metropolitan Economic Structure and the Earnings
of Male Youths," Seed Grant,
Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals
2003
“Contingent
Urban Geographies of Violent Crime: Racial Segregation and the Impact of Public
Housing in
“Crossing
Racial Lines: Geographies of Mixed-Race Partnering and Multiraciality
in the
2002
“Fading
Strategic Constructions of Race: Mortgage Lending Data and Dilemmas of
Anti-Discrimination Praxis,” The Review of Black Political Economy,
Vol. 30(1): in press (will appear Fall 2003) (with
Elvin K. Wyly).
“Invisible
Cities: Geography and the Disappearance of ‘Race’ from Mortgage
Lending Data in the
“The Disappearance of Race in Mortgage
Lending,” Economic Geography, Vol. 78(2):129-169 (with Elvin K. Wyly).
2001
"LMI Lending in Context: Progress Report on the Neighborhood
Impacts of Home Ownership Policy" Housing Policy Debate, Vol.
12(1):87-127 (with Elivin K. Wyly,
Thomas J. Cooke, Daniel J. Hammel, and Margaret
Hudson).
"The Color of Money Extended: Geographic Contingency and Race
in
“Scaling
Ethnic Segregation: Causal Processes and Contingent Outcomes in Chinese
Residential Patterns” GeoJournal, Vol. 53(1):59-70 (with David H. Kaplan).
2000
"Identity, Contingency, and the
Urban Geography of 'Race'," Social and Cultural Geography, Vol.
1(2):197-208.
"Race, Crime, and Public Housing in
1999
"Race, Scale, and the Concentration of Poverty in
"The Color of Money Revisited: Racial Lending Patterns in Atlanta’s
Neighborhoods," Housing Policy Debate, Vol
10(3):555-600 (with Elvin K. Wyly).
1998
Exploring the neighborhood contingency of race discrimination in
mortgage lending in
Exploring the effect of public housing on the concentration of
poverty in
Labor demand, metropolitan context,
and male youths' activity strategies, Urban Geography, forthcoming.
Male youth activities and metropolitan context, Environment and
Planning A, Vol.30(3):385-399.
The role of residential location in conditioning the effect of
metropolitan economic structure on male youth employment, The Professional
Geographer, Vol. 50(1):31-45.
1996
Job accessibility and male teenage employment, 1980 - 1990: The
declining significance of space?, The Professional
Geographer. Vol. 48(4):445-58.
1992
Regional Convergence in Nonmetropolitan Industrialization?
The Disparity Between the Level of
Economic Development and Human Welfare, The Professional Geographer,
Vol. 44(1):57-71 (with Kavita Pandit).
1991
Corporate Headquarters Relocation and Changes in Metropolitan Corporate
Dominance, 1980-1987, Economic Geography, Vol. 67(1):54-74 (with James
O. Wheeler).
1990
Urban Economic Structure and the Urban Underclass: An Examination
of Two Problematic Social Phenomena, Urban Geography, Vol.
11(4):319-346.
Books
Kaplan, David H., Wheeler, James O.,
and Holloway, Steven R. 2004 Urban
Geography, Wiley.
Kaplan, David H., and Holloway, Steven
R. 1998. Segregation in
Cities, Association of American Geographers Resource Publication Series.
Working Papers and Research Reports
"Learning from "Just Right" Neighborhoods That
Offer Affordable Homeownership Opportunities," Building Blocks: A
Practitioner’s Guide to Planning and Financing Community Revitalization
(Published by the Fannie Mae Foundation), Vol. 2(2), Winter 2000 (with Elvin K.
Wyly, Thomas J. Cooke, Daniel Hammel,
and Margaret Hudson).
""Goldilocks" Neighborhoods: Ten "Just
Right" Urban Markets for Affordable Homeownership," Report to the
Fannie Mae Foundation, August 2000 (with Elvin K. Wyly,
Thomas J. Cooke, Daniel Hammel, and Margaret Hudson).
"The New Color of Money: Neighborhood Lending Patterns in
"Identity, Contingency, and the Urban Geography of
Race," Position paper, NSF Research Workshop on Race and Geography,
University of Kentucky, October 29-November 1, 1998.
"The Color of Money
Revisited," Report to the Fannie Mae Foundation, September 1998 (with
Elvin K. Wyly).
"The Effect of Adolescent Neighborhood Poverty on Adult
Employment," Report to the Center for Labor Research,
"The Metropolitan Contingency of
the Male Youth Central-city Employment Disadvantage," Working Paper
WP-018, Center for Labor Research,
Courses Taught:
Introductory Data Analysis (GEOG 2300 )
Introduction to Urban Geography (GEOG 3630)
Introductory Spatial Analysis (GEOG 4/6300)
Advanced Urban Geography (GEOG 4/6630)
Seminar in Advanced Spatial Analysis (GEOG 8300)
Seminar in Urban Geography (GEOG 8630)