American Journal of Sociology

Review Essays and Symposia

In the coming year, AJS plans to offer review essays and possibly even review symposia focusing on emerging and longstanding sociological concerns. We’re looking forward to these upcoming essays:

 

AJS VOLUME 129 REVIEW ESSAYS

Mary Pattillo, “Young, Gifted, and Black” (September 2023)

  • Young, Gifted and Diverse: Origins of the New Black Elite, by Camille Z. Charles et al. (Princeton University Press 2022)
  • Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man, by Saida Grundy (University of California Press 2022)
  • The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class, by Kris Marsh (Cambridge University Press 2023)

Prudence L. Carter, “The U.S. Educational System’s Culture Problem: How Achievement Ideology Foments Inequality” (January 2024)

  • The Battle Nearer to Home, by Christopher Bonastia (Stanford University Press 2022)
  • Academic Apartheid, by Sean J. Drake (University of California Press 2022)
  • Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools, by Natasha Warikoo (University of Chicago Press 2022)
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