Browsing SOC Faculty Publications by Author "Billingham, Chase M."
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Book review: Gentrifier
Billingham, Chase M. (SAGE, 2018-09-01)Half a century after its introduction, urban sociologists continue to struggle with the conceptually ambiguous yet politically loaded term “gentrification.” Processes of capital reinvestment, demographic turnover, and ... -
Book review: Marketing schools, marketing cities: who wins and who loses when schools become urban amenities
Billingham, Chase M. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-12)In recent years, urban scholars have begun to draw the links between the contemporary school reform movement and the return of the middle class to inner-city neighborhoods. Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara has been at the forefront ... -
Book review: The fight for America's schools: grassroots organizing in education
Billingham, Chase M. (Taylor & Francis, 2019-04-03)When urban renewal threatened her West Village neighborhood, Jacobs marshaled the discourse of sociability in opposition. Her defense of diversity, density, and mixed-use districts arose from her journalism, her knowledge ... -
Book review: When middle-class parents choose urban schools: class, race, and the challenge of equity in public education
Billingham, Chase M. (University of Chicago Press, 2016-08)While many inner-city public schools across the country continue to struggle with academic failure, insufficient resources, and declining enrollment, some typically located in gentrifying neighborhoods are experiencing the ... -
Identifying the urban: resident perceptions of community character and local institutions in eight metropolitan areas
Billingham, Chase M.; Kimelberg, Shelley McDonough (Wiley, 2018-09)What does the term urban signify as a descriptor of contemporary communities in the United States? We investigate this question using data from the Soul of the Community survey, examining how people within eight metropolitan ... -
In search of a safe school: racialized perceptions of security and the school choice process
Billingham, Chase M.; Kimelberg, Shelley McDonough; Faude, Sarah; Hunt, Matthew O. (Taylor & Francis, 2020-01-23)Do school security policies affect how safe parents perceive schools to be, and do they influence parental choice behavior? We address these questions using data from a survey that asked U.S. parents to evaluate hypothetical ... -
Opinion polling and the measurement of Americans' attitudes regarding education
Billingham, Chase M.; Kimelberg, Shelley McDonough (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-09)The meaning, measurement, and implications of 'public opinion' have long been a source of debate. In this paper, we examine the extent to which the educational priorities of elites in the US reflect the educational priorities ... -
Parental choice, neighborhood schools, and the market metaphor in urban education reform
Billingham, Chase M. (Sage, 2014-03-27)Critics of many popular urban school reforms in the United States allege that these reform efforts unfairly insert market forces into the public domain, resulting in widening inequalities. In this paper, I challenge the ... -
Parental choice, neighbourhood schools, and the market metaphor in urban education reform
Billingham, Chase M. (SAGE Publications, 2015-03)Critics of many popular urban school reforms in the United States allege that these reform efforts unfairly insert market forces into the public domain, resulting in widening inequalities. In this paper, I challenge the ... -
School racial composition and parental choice: new evidence on the preferences of white parents in the United States
Billingham, Chase M.; Hunt, Matthew O. (SAGE Publications, 2016-04)Racial segregation remains a persistent problem in U.S. schools. In this article, we examine how social psychological factorsin particular, individuals' perceptions of schools with varying demographic characteristicsmay ... -
Waiting for Bobos: displacement and impeded gentrification in a midwestern city
Billingham, Chase M. (Wiley, 2017-06)The degree to which lower-income residents are displaced by the process of gentrification has been the subject of considerable debate. Displacement is generally framed as a possible, and potentially remediable, outcome of ... -
Within-district racial segregation and the elusiveness of white student return to urban public schools
Billingham, Chase M. (SAGE Publications, 2019-02)Recent research has determined that racial segregation within school districts has decreased, on average, over the past two decades, even as segregation between school districts has persisted. Although case studies have ...