“It Depends on How You Define Integrated”: Neighborhood Boundaries and Racial Integration in a Baltimore Neighborhood1

There are a significant number of racially integrated neighborhoods in the United States, many of which have been stable over time. However, very little is known about the characteristics of these neighborhoods and of the residents who live in them. With data taken from a larger study of an integrated neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, this article discusses homeowners’ perceptions of their community and racial integration. Fifty semi‐structured interviews were completed with 67 homeowners to investigate their perceptions and experiences of race, class, and change in their community. This study shows that statistical racial integration and perceptions of racial integration are two different factors. Residents define true racial integration as both residential and social. As a result, homeowners reported that their neighborhood is both segregated and integrated—a type of “qualified” integration. Perceptions of racial integration are also affected by inconsistently defined neighborhood boundaries and racial clustering, block by block.     

Gang Leader for a Day: A Response to the Critics

This essay provides a response to Clampet-Lundquist, Charles, and Young's comments on my book Gang Leader for a Day :     

Transition from school for youths with a disability: issues and challenges

Australian research has demonstrated that students with a disability are more likely to remain out of the full‐time workforce. These research findings have been the catalyst for a call for a comprehensive career development and transition planning approach for all students with disabilities in schools as well as for employers to rethink the role of people with disabilities in the workforce. In the Australian context the transition from school for individuals with a disability is complicated by a disparate and fragmented group of service agencies providing a range of services, including employment, supported accommodation, recreation and leisure pursuits, as well as training and placement, along with, at times, a deep‐seated prejudice towards people with disabilities in the market place. This paper reviews a number of issues and challenges confronting individuals with a disability making the transition from school to the post‐school environment.     

A feminist revisiting of the insider/outsider debate: The “outsider phenomenon” in rural Iowa

This article draws upon findings from an ethnographic study of two towns in rural Iowa to examine the adequacy of the insider/outsider distinction as a guideline for evaluating and conducting ethnographic research. Utilizing feminist standpoint and materialist feminist theories, I start with the assumption that, rather than one “insider” or “outsider” position, we all begin our work with different relationships to shifting aspects of social life and to particular knowers in the community and this contributes to numerous dimensions through which we can relate to residents in various communities. “Outsiderness” and “insiderness” are not fixed or static positions, rather they are ever-shifting and permeable social locations illustrated in this case study by the “outsider phenomenon.” Community processes that reorganize and resituate race-ethnicity, gender and class relations form some of the most salient aspects of the “outsider phenomenon.” These dynamic processes shaped our relationships with residents as ethnographic identities were repositioned by shifts in constructions of “community” that accompanied ongoing social, demographic, and political changes.     

Species richness and altitudinal variation in the aquatic metazoan community in bamboo phytotelmata from north Sulawesi

We compared the aquatic metazoan community structure in bamboo stumps between a lowland (Kosinggolan; 200 m a.s.l.) and a highland site (Moat; 1030–1050 m a.s.l.) in North Sulawesi. The lowland bamboo stumps harbored 38 taxa including 2 predators, and the highland stumps harbored 35 taxa including 2 predators. In total 45 taxa were recorded, including 3 predators. Dominant detritivores were Tipulidae, Scirtidae, Chironomidae, Culicidae and Ceratopogonidae. The sole dominant predators wereToxorhynchites mosquito larvae, which occurred in 67% and 28% of stumps at the lowland and the highland sites, respectively. Although the mean biomass per stump did not differ significantly between the sites, the mean number of species per stump was significantly smaller at the lowland site. In addition, the variation in species composition among stumps was greater at the lowland site than at the highland site. Among dominant taxonomic groups, the number of non-predatory culicid species per stump was smaller at the lowland site where their predator,Toxorhynchites, was more abundant, although both sites had the same number of culicid species. In the presence ofToxorhynchites, the density and biomass of other culicids per stump were reduced significantly. The difference in predator density might affect differences in the local-scale community structure of individual bamboo stumps.     

新形势下高校学生教育管理体制的思考——兼议“思想品德”课教师与学生管理干部的兼容

高校内部管理体制改革对学生管理工作提出了新的要求,传统的学生管理模式已不能适应新形势的发展,社区以其较强的稳定性必将成为学生管理的落脚点,社团和课程班级是完全学分制下学生社区管理的必要补充;学生政工干部队伍是学生管理的主要力量,"思想品德"课程教学是学生思想道德修养的重要途径,将学生教育管理和思想品德教学本属一个矛盾的两个方面还原为一体,是提高思想教育和教学两方面质量的必要手段。     

$7.8 Billion for Everglades Restoration: Why Do Environmentalists Look So Worried?

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, enacted in 2000, is a $7.8 billion federal/state investment in restoring the Florida Everglades ecosystem. The plan is a negotiated compromise between divergent interests in south Florida and promises to provide water and flood control for urban and agricultural users while maintaining a priority commitment to the natural system when allocating water produced by the 30-year project. The environmental community calls for independent scientific review of un-tested technologies, early and substantial hydrologic benefits to the remaining Everglades, including Everglades National Park, and strong programmatic regulations of the federal project to ensure that ecological restoration remains its primary purpose in spite of inherently conflicting interests at the state and local level.     

中国加入国际社会与早期中美教育交流

近代以来中国融入国际社会走了一条曲折的道路,付出了惨重的代价。中美交往的早期,美国以教育交流的方式对中国进行文化意识形态渗透。全球化时代,美国对中国的意识形态渗透仍然沿袭了这一传统方式。     

黑劳士制度、土地制度与"平等者公社"的兴衰--近50年来斯巴达历史研究的成就和问题

最近半个世纪以来 ,中外学者在古代斯巴达历史研究中 ,对于斯巴达公民人数在古典时代后期急剧减少、“平等者公社”土崩瓦解的原因 ,有关论著的核心论点是 :土地私有制的发展、土地兼并和集中是导致公元前 4世纪斯巴达城邦衰落的最主要的原因。但历史事实并非如此。斯巴达的战败、美塞尼亚的丧失是其间斯巴达版图缩小、国力衰微、“平等者公社”成员数量减少、黑劳士制度衰落的最主要的原因。公元前 5 -4世纪 ,关于斯巴达土地兼并和集中史料尤其是关于土地买卖的史料的匮乏 ,恰恰是历史实际的真实反映     

农村社区建设的参数分析

农村社区建设应坚持科学发展观,按照"生产发展、生活宽裕、乡风文明、村容整洁、管理民主"的社会主义新农村建设目标要求,建设人与自然和谐相处的村民"宜居社区"和"精神家园"。社区建设涵盖经济收入指数、人居环境指数、居民幸福指数、社区参与指数、平安康乐指数、福利保障指数、社区归属感等参数。