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Refereed Articles

2007. "Midnight Basketball and the 1994 Crime Bill Debates: The Operation of a Racial Code." (with Darren Wheelock). The Sociological Quarterly, 48: 315-342

2006. “Atheists as ‘Other’: Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership in America.” (with Penny Edgell and Joseph Gerteis).  American Sociological Review, 71 (April): 211-234.

2006. “Re-Thinking Sports-Based Community Crime Prevention: A Preliminary Analysis of the Relationships between Midnight Basketball and Urban Crime Rates.” (with Brooks Depro). Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 30 (2, May): 180-196.

2005. “One (Multicultural) Nation Under God? Changing Uses and Meanings of the Term ‘Judeo-Christian” in the American Media.  (with Xeufeng Zhang and William Wischstadt).  Journal of Media and Religion, 4 (4): 207-234.

2005. “Dealing with Diversity: Mapping Multiculturalism in Sociological Terms.”  (with Joseph Gerteis). Sociological Theory, 23, 2 (June): 218-240.

2003.  “The Sanctity of Sunday Afternoon Football: Why Men Love Sports.”  Contexts, 2, 4: 13-21 (cover story).

2003.  “Theorizing Sport as Social Intervention: A View from the Grassroots.”  Quest, 55, 2: 118-140.

2003. “What Can We Learn From Sport if We Take Sport Seriously as a Racial Force? Lessons from C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary.”  Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26, 3 (May): 451-483.

2003. "The Race Relations 'Problematic' in American Sociology: Revisiting Niemonen's Case Study and Critique." (with Paul Croll and Katja Guenther) The American Sociologist, Fall 2003: 20-55

2001.  “Notes on Midnight Basketball and the Cultural Politics of Recreation, Race and At-Risk Urban Youth.”  Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 25, 4 (November): 339-372.

2000.   “Rethinking the Relationships between Sport and Race in American Culture: Golden Ghettos and Contested Terrain.”  Sociology of Sport Journal, 17: 229-253.

1996. "The Politics of Race and Sport: Resistance and Domination in the 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 19 (July): 548-566

Book Chapters and Invited Contributions

Forthcoming. “The New Adulthood? The Transition to Adulthood from the Perspective of Transitioning Young Adults.” (with Teresa Toguchi Swartz). In Constructing Adulthood: Agency and Subjectivity in the Life Course. Advances in Life Course Research Volume 10, edited by Ross Macmillan. Elsevier/JAI Press.

Forthcoming.  “Transitions to Adulthood in the Land of Lake Wobegon.”  (with Teresa Toguchi Swartz and Jeylan Mortimer).  MacArthur Foundation, Transitions to Adulthood Research Network, Qualitative Volume, edited by Mary Waters, Jennifer Holdaway, Maria Kefalas, and Patrick Carr.           

2006.  “Bound by Blackness or Above It?  Michael Jordan and the Paradoxes of Post-Civil Rights American Race Relations.”In Sport and the Racial Mountain: A Biographical History of the African American Athlete, edited by David K. Wiggins. University of Arkansas Press.

2005.  “Community.” Pp. 359-365 in Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport, edited by David Levinson and Karen Christensen.  Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing.

2004.  “Conceptual Confusions and Divides: Race, Ethnicity and the Study of Immigration.” (with Stephen Cornell.)  Pp. 23-41 in Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, edited by Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson.  New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

2002. “Sport as Prevention? Minneapolis’s Experiment with Late-Night Basketball.”  (with Darren Wheelock.) CURA [Center for Urban and Regional Affairs] Reporter, 32 (3, Spring): 13-17.

2002.  “Sport as Contested Terrain.”  Pp. 405-415 in Blackwell Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, edited by David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos.  Oxford: Blackwell.

2000.  “Race, Culture, and the Case of Sport.” Culture, 14 (2, Winter): 1-6.

1999. "Toward a Race-Critical Sociology." Pp. 21-32 in Critica: A Journal of Critical Essays. University of California, San Diego Critica Monograph Series.

1999. "Rethinking Race." Pp. 7-10 in Critica: A Journal of Critical Essays. University of California, San Diego Critica Monograph Series.



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