Select Journal Articles

"Measuring Neighborhood Distress: A Tool for Place-Based Urban Revitalization Strategies," Community Development (2012)

"The Empowerment Zone in Boston, Massachusetts, 2000-2009," Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 38, No. 1 (2011)

"Response to Ben Pitcher's 'Obama and The Politics of Blackness,"SOULS, Vol. 12, No. 4 (2010)

"Community Health Centers in US Inner Cities: From Cultural Competency to Community Competency", Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal, (January 2009)

"The Boston Schoolyard Initiative: A Public-Private Partnership for Rebuilding Urban Play Spaces", Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Duke University Press, Vol. 33, No. 3, (June 2008)

"Community-Based Nonprofits in US Inner Cities: Collaborative Strategies for Community Building", co-author, SAGE Race Relations Abstracts, Volume 32, Number 5 (2007)

"The Demonstration Disposition Program in Boston, Massachusetts: Lessons for Resident Empowerment, Economic Development, and Government Partnerships" co-author, National Political Science Review Volume 10 (February 2005)

"Community Participation, Urban Planning, and the Roxbury Master Plan in Boston, Massachusetts" The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences Volume 594 (July 2004)

"Welfare Reform and Welfare to Work as Non-Sequitor: A Case Study of the Experiences of Latina Women in Massachusetts" co-author, Journal of Poverty, Volume 8, Number 1 (February 2004)

"Black Intellectuals: The Perennial Question," Souls: Journal of Black Politics and Culture Volume 4, Number 2, (April 2002)

"Solving Environmental Injustices in Massachusetts: Forging Greater Community Participation in the Planning Process" co-author, Projections: MIT Journal of Planning, Number 3 (2002)

"Welfare Reform as Anti-Urban Policy" The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Volume 577 (September 2001)

"Representation by Other Means: Mexican American and Puerto Ricans in Social Movements," co-author, PS: Political Science and Politics (September 2000)

"Globalization and Race Divisions in the U.S." New England Journal of Public Policy, Volume 15, Number 2 (Spring 2000)

"Toward an Understanding of Relations Between Blacks and Korean-Americans" Review Essay, Urban Affairs Review, Volume 35, Number 4 (March 2000)

"The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Confronting Racial Hierarchy" Howard Law Journal, Volume 40, Number 3 (1998)

"The Need for a Third Party in the United States" New Political Science, Number 28/29 (Winter- Spring 1994)

"New Racial and Ethnic Conflict in Cities" Sage Race Relations Abstracts Vol 17, Number 3 (August 1992)

"Minorities and Vocational Education" Vocational Education Journal, Volume 66, Number 4 (April 1991)

"The Struggle for Equality: From Access to Power" Suffolk Law Review, Volume 18, Number 4 (Winter 1984)

"Race, Class and Politics in Boston's Black Community" Review of Black Political Economy, Volume 12, Number 1 (Fall 1982)