Douglas Steven Massey is an American sociologist, born October 5, 1952, who is a professor of sociology at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and an adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the sociology of immigration and has written extensively on the effects of residential segregation on the Black American underclass in the United States. He has served as president of the Population Association of America, the American Sociological Association and the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Sociology.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionEstablished the empirical sociology of international migration and residential segregation, documenting how discriminatory housing practices produced and sustained the urban black underclass in the United States. 1 Notable WorkAmerican Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (1993) 1 Connections
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Massey American Apartheid, with Nancy Denton, showed how residential segregation produced and hardened racial stratification in American cities.
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Douglas Steven Massey (born October 5, 1952) is an American sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of sociology at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and is an adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Massey specializes in the sociology of immigration, and has written on the effect of residential segregation on the black underclass in the United States.
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