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Brown School DEI Faculty Syllabus Support Guide

This section is dedicated to highlighting aspects of socioeconomic status within rural and urban settings.

Scholarly articles - Rural
  • Bryant, K., Haynes, T., Kim Yeary, K. H. C., Greer‐Williams, N., & Hartwig, M. (2014). A rural African American faith community's solutions to depression disparities. Public Health Nursing, 31(3), 262-271.
  • Cooper, S. M., Murry, V. M., Inniss-Thompson, M. N., Burnett, M., Valrie, C., Gonzalez, C. M., Shaheed, J., McBride, M., & Garber, K. (2023). Rural youth development: Theoretical perspectives, challenges, and protective processes.
  • Keyes, T. S., Vogel-Ferguson, M. B., & Patin, K. (2019). An Approach for Engaging with a Mixed-Race, Rural Community Using Social Work Values and a Community-Based Participatory Research Framework. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 16(5), 524-539.
  • Means, D. R., Clayton, A. B., Conzelmann, J. G., Baynes, P., & Umbach, P. D. (2016). Bounded aspirations: Rural, African American high school students and college access. The Review of Higher Education, 39(4), 543-569.
  • Morton, T. R., Ramirez, N. A., Meece, J. L., Demetriou, C., & Panter, A. T. (2018). Perceived barriers, anxieties, and fears in prospective college students from rural high schools. High School Journal, 101(3), 155-176.
  • Murry, V. M., Harrell, A. W., Brody, G. H., Chen, Y. F., Simons, R. L., Black, A. R., Cutrona, C. E., & Gibbons, F. X. (2008). Long‐term effects of stressors on relationship well‐being and parenting among rural African American women. Family Relations, 57(2), 117-127.
  • Strayhorn, T. L. (2009). Different folks, different hopes: The educational aspirations of Black males in urban, suburban, and rural high schools. Urban Education, 44(6), 710-731.
  • Weaver, A., Himle, J. A., Taylor, R. J., Matusko, N. N., & Abelson, J. M. (2015). Urban vs rural residence and the prevalence of depression and mood disorder among African American women and non-Hispanic white women. JAMA psychiatry, 72(6), 576-583.
Scholarly articles - Urban
  • Brondolo, E., Beatty, D. L., Cubbin, C., Pencille, M., Saegert, S., Wellington, R., ... & Schwartz, J. (2009). Sociodemographic variations in self‐reported racism in a community sample of Blacks and Latino (a) s. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39(2), 407-429.
  • Erving, C. L., & Smith, M. V. (2022). Disrupting monolithic thinking about Black women and their mental health: Does stress exposure explain intersectional ethnic, nativity, and socioeconomic differences?. Social Problems, 69(4), 1046-1067.
  • Hudson, D., Banks, A., Holl, D., & Sewell, W. (2019). Understanding health inequalities experienced by Black men: Fundamental links between racism, socioeconomic position, and social mobility. In Men’s health equity (pp. 408-432). Routledge.
  • Hudson, D. L., Neighbors, H. W., Geronimus, A. T., & Jackson, J. S. (2016). Racial discrimination, john henryism, and depression among African Americans. Journal of Black psychology, 42(3), 221-243.
  • Jones, A. (2013). Segregation and cardiovascular illness: the role of individual and metropolitan socioeconomic status. Health & place, 22, 56-67.
  • Knighton, J. S., Dogan, J., Hargons, C., & Stevens-Watkins, D. (2022). Superwoman Schema: a context for understanding psychological distress among middle-class African American women who perceive racial microaggressions. Ethnicity & health, 27(4), 946-962.
  • Lombe, M., Newransky, C., Nebbitt, V., Amano, T., Yu, M., Enelamah, N. V., ... & Walden, N. (2023). Individual, familial, and sociocontextual correlates of maternal caregiving among African American adolescents in public housing. Family Relations.
  • Patterson—Silver Wolf, D. A., Welte, J. W., Barnes, G. M., Tidwell, M. C. O., & Spicer, P. (2015). Sociocultural influences on gambling and alcohol use among Native Americans in the United States. Journal of gambling studies, 31, 1387-1404.
  • Purnell, J. Q. (2018). The Enduring Significance of Segregation. Facing segregation: Housing policy solutions for a stronger society, 58.
  • Simmons, O. S. (2014). Class dismissed: Rethinking socio-economic status and higher education attainment. Ariz. St. LJ, 46, 231.
  • Strayhorn, T. L. (2010). When race and gender collide: Social and cultural capital's influence on the academic achievement of African American and Latino males. The Review of Higher Education, 33(3), 307-332.
  • Sun, S., & Hudson, D. (2019, November). Socioeconomic and Health Inequalities Across Young Adulthood: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. In APHA's 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo (Nov. 2-Nov. 6). APHA.
  • Walton, Q. L. (2022). Living in between: A grounded theory study of depression among middle-class Black women. Journal of Black Psychology, 48(2), 139-172.
Books
  • Lohmann, N., & Lohmann, R. A. (Eds.). (2008). Rural social work practice. Columbia University Press.
  • Pugh, R., & Cheers, B. (2010). Rural social work: International perspectives. Policy Press. (also see Global and International)
  • Rothstein, R. (2017). The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. Liveright Publishing.
Media