Article: Northwestern University.(professor Mary Pattillo-McCoy selected as one of Newsweek's 15 'Women to Watch in the 21st Century')(Brief Article)

Article: Mary Pattillo-McCoy. Black Picket Fences: Privilege ...
Michigan Historical Review;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... and the general public have preferred to focus on upwardly mobile or deeply impoverished African Americans, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy sets out to describe the forgotten group in the center: the black middle class. The setting for Black Picket Fences ...

Article: Big city scholar: Mary Pattillo. (Sociology/African ...
Black Issues in Higher Education;  January 2, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... A., Sociology, University of Chicago; B.A., Urban Studies-Sociology, Columbia University Age: 32 At 32, Dr. Mary Pattillo is a tenured professor in the departments of sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University in Chicago ...

Article: Replacing rhetoric with research: two scholars with ties to the ...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education;  August 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... sociological fieldwork known as the Chicago School. Now, more than 60 years after the publication of Black Metropolis, Dr. Mary Pattillo, a professor of sociology at Northwestern University, and Dr. Cathy J. Cohen, a political science professor at the University ...

Article: Living under the microscope.
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... territory. While researching her new book "Black on the Block," about North Kenwood-Oakland, sociology professor Mary Pattillo went to a community meeting only to find another academic present. "I said, 'Hey, back off. This is my ...

Article: Shaky grip on middle class: Blacks' siblings often poor, can't ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... on middle-class status, a new study says. The study, co-authored by Northwestern University sociology professor Mary Pattillo, argues that middle-class blacks are more vulnerable to financial setbacks than their white counterparts because ...

Article: Uncommon Ground; Yes, Obama Lives There. But Chicago's Hyde Park ...
The Washington Post;  October 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... metropolitan resident lives in a neighborhood 80 percent white and only 7 percent black, says Northwestern University professor Mary Pattillo, who calls Hyde Park "anomalous for whites." Census tracts in the exurbs and the countryside tend to be even ...

Article: Northwestern U. professor's study finds racial disparity within ...
University Wire;  January 29, 2007 ;     627 words ... ... fragility of the black middle class, according to a study co-authored by Northwestern University sociology professor Mary Pattillo. The study -- titled "Poverty in the Family: Race, Siblings and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity" and co-written ...