Matthew Desmond Quotes
I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.
Gross, Terry. "A Sociologist Examines The 'Visceral' Toll Of Eviction." NPR, National Public Radio, 3 Mar. 2016.
In France, poor immigrants tended to be clustered into suburban neighborhoods where few jobs were available, the schools were inferior, recreational facilities were sparse, and there were few opportunities to mix with other French residents. Yet, similar correlations between geography and opportunity have existed in almost all parts of the world with the most obvious reflected in the massive worldwide migration to the cities from the rural areas and countryside which took place in the United States in the 20th century and most other nations in the latter part of that century and the beginning of the 21st. Chances in life have been and are very much determined by geography.
Explanation for his assassination of President William McKinley:
Matthew Desmond is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences. After receiving his PhD in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. Desmond is the author of On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters (2007), which won the Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship by the American Sociological Association, as well as two books on race in America (both with Mustafa Emirbayer): Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America (2009) and The Racial Order (forthcoming). He has written essays on educational inequality, dangerous work, political ideology, race and social theory, and the inner-city housing market. Desmond is the principal investigator of the Milwaukee Area Renters Study, an original survey of tenants in Milwaukee's low-income private housing sector. His work has been supported by the MacArthur, Ford, and National Science Foundations, as well as by the American Philosophical Society; it also has been profiled in major news outlets such as The New York Times, National Public Radio, Science, and Das Erste. His current project combines ethnographic fieldwork, survey data, and documentary analysis to explore the causes, dynamics, and consequences of eviction among the urban poor and, more broadly, to plumb the inner workings of disadvantaged neighborhoods and the low-cost housing market. Research Interests: Race and ethnicity; urban sociology; poverty; housing; organizations and work; ethnography; research methods.
