Publications

Bento, Asia. Forthcoming. "Banking for the Culture: Black-Owned Banks as Cultural Assets During the Subprime Lending Boom." Social Science Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103025

Brown, Tony N., Quintin Gorman, Jr., Julian Culver, and Asia Bento. Forthcoming. "Four More Years! or So What? The Mental Health Significance for Black Adults of Barack Obama's 2012 Presidential Re-Election." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X24000043

Gorman, Jr., Quintin. Forthcoming. “Fight the Power? How Black Adults’ Belief in Systemic Racism Associates with Political Activities.” Social Currents. https://doi.org/10.1177/23294965241275162

Brown, Tony N., Quintin Gorman, Jr., Autumn Raynor, Asia Bento, Julian Culver, and Jauhara Ferguson. 2024. “Wakanda Forever! Consistency in Correlates of Black Nationalist Tendencies.” Social Science Quarterly 105(4):1224-1238. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13388

Gorman, Jr., Quintin. 2024. “The Sociopolitical Implications of Blacks’ Belief in the Significance of Systemic Racism.” PhD dissertation. Department of Sociology, Rice University.

Brown, Tony N., Julian Culver, Asia Bento, and Quintin Gorman, Jr. 2023. “Predicting Changes in Racial Apathy among Whites Using Data from a Five-Year National Panel Study.” Sociological Inquiry 93(1):35-58. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12498

Gorman, Quintin Jr., Tony N. Brown, and Julian Culver. 2023. “My Commander-in-Chief is Black! The Mental Health Significance of Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Election for Military Veterans.” Armed Forces & Society 49(3):846-865. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X221082211

Bento, Asia. 2022. “Displaced Opportunities: The Differential Impacts of Bank Branch Openings in Racially Segregated Neighborhoods.” PhD dissertation. Department of Sociology, Rice University.

Brown, Tony N., Asia Bento, Julian Culver, Raul Casarez, and Horace J. Duffy III. 2022. “Intergroup Contact and White Racial Apathy: Findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR).” Sociological Perspectives 65(6):1188-1207. https://doi.org/10.1177/07311214221104041

Brown, Tony N., Chase L. Lesane-Brown, Rachell Davis, and Michael Carroll. 2022. “Viral Racism via Videos: A Study of Asian Americans’ Experiences of Interpersonal Discrimination Because of COVID-19.” Social Currents 9(5):486-505. https://doi.org/10.1177/23294965221098973

Culver, Julian. 2022. “When and Why Racial Attitudes Change: Presidential Elections, Politicians, and Racial Exemplars.” PhD dissertation. Department of Sociology, Rice University. ProQuest, 31532328.

Bento, Asia. 2021. “When and Where Residential Racial Segregation Matters for The Black Self-Employment Rate.” The Review of Black Political Economy 48(4):455–480.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00346446211013557

Bento, Asia and James R. Elliot. 2021. “The Racially Unequal Impacts of Disasters and Federal Recovery Assistance on Local Self-Employment Rates.” Social Currents 9(2):118-138. https://doi.org/10.1177/23294965211028841

Bento, Asia and Tony N. Brown. 2021. “Belief in Systemic Racism and Self-Employment among Working Blacks.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 44(1):21–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1737170

Brown, Tony N., Alexa Solazzo, and Bridget K. Gorman. 2021. “‘Yes We Can!’ Examining the Mental Health Significance for U.S. Black Adults of Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Election.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 7(1):101-115. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649220911387

Culver, Julian. 2021. “How Consistency in Closeness to God Predicts Psychological Resources and Life Satisfaction: Findings from the National Study of Youth and Religion.” Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 38(1):103-123. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075209567102

Bento, Asia. 2020. “How African American Women Experience Hypervisibility in Japan and South Korea.” Social Identities 26(4):550–569. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2020.1783224

Brown, Tony N., Julian Culver, Asia Bento, and Quintin Gorman. 2020. “The Prevalence, Correlates, and Consequences of Racial Apathy Among Black Teenagers.” Journal of African American Studies 24(4):611-626. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-020-09505-3

Brown, Tony N., Julian Culver, Kiana Wilkins, Quintin Gorman, Jr., Asia Bento, Aly M. Alvis, Chase L. Lesane-Brown, and Cleopatra H. Caldwell. 2020. “A Descriptive Study using the Comprehensive Race Socialization Inventory (CRSI): Findings from the National Survey of American Life-Adolescent Supplement (NSAL-A).” Journal of Black Studies 51(2):147-167. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934719896003

Brown, Tony N., Asia Bento, Quintin Gorman, Jr., Lydia Koku, and Julian Culver. 2019. “‘Who Cares?’ Investigating Consistency in Expressions of Racial Apathy among Whites.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 5:1–10. https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023119839518

Brown, Tony N., Julian Culver, and Asia Bento. 2018. “How Incarceration Influences Native-Born Black Men’s Risk of Obesity.” Ethnicity & Disease 28(2):69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.18865/ed.28.2.69