Sociology, 8th edition. Paradigm Publishers, 2024. We are pleased to announce that the eighth edition of this introductory sociology textbook, co-authored with Professor Michael Flota of Daytona State and new for this edition, Professor J. Scott Carter of the University of Central Florida, will be available next month (September, 2024)! More info on this book here.
Majority Minority Relations, 6th edition. Prentice Hall, 2010/2012. The 6th edition, updated for the 2010 Census in 2012, remains available from online book-sellers, although it is no longer in print.
Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America. (Hardcover and Paperback Editions). Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.
All of these books are available through the major online booksellers. However, both the sixth edition of Majority-Minority Relations and and Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations are now out of print and cannot be directly purchased from the publishers. You still get these as used books, though, from the major online book-sellers. The eighth editon of Sociology will be available for order from the publisher September 9, 2024.
You may view my vita, which lists all of my academic publications, here. This vita was updated on April 12, 2020.
I am also available as a speaker. I have delivered keynote or other major addresses to the following groups:
European Forum for Migration Studies, TransAtlantic Discourse on Migration, Berlin, Nuremberg, and Munich, Germany (I spoke to this group in Germany on 3 different occasions, including one keynote address.).
Midwest Sociological Society (Presidential Address).
Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD, Symposium on American Democracy in the 1960s and 1970s.
St. Louis Community College, Meramec, Diversity Speakers Series and Sociology Club Speaker Series.
Illinois Sociological Association (Keynote Address).
Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council.
Greenville College, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Sociology and Criminal Justice Week (Keynote Address).
Some of the topics on which I am available to lecture include the following:
The Impact of the Social Movements of the 1960s and 70s on Race Relations in America Today: What Has Changed and What Has Not?
Some Thoughts on the Past, Present, and Future of Sociology
How Much of What You Think You Know about Immigration is True?
School Integration and Its Consequences for Social Integration and Educational Opportunity
Racism and Discrimination: A Sociological Perspective
Racial Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area: Past, Present, and Future
Racial Housing Segregation and Concentration in the Central Cities
Institutionalized Racial and Economic Inequality, Poverty, Hurricane Katrina, and George Bush
November 12, 2015 - I have written down some thoughts on the recent events at the University of Missouri. You can read them here.
This page last updated August 22, 2024