Browsing by Author "Hobson-Prater, Tara"

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    IUPUI Solution Center & Near Eastside Legacy Initiative
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2012-04-13) Hobson-Prater, Tara
    The JPMorgan Chase Foundation has awarded the IUPUI Solution Center a grant of $75,000 to support IUPUI’s initiative to increase student and faculty involvement in the Near Eastside of Indianapolis. The Chase – IUPUI Near Eastside Legacy Initiative (NELI) is designed to increase awareness of and activity in the Chase Legacy Center, and promote health, wellness, and education programming in the community through targeted communication and public health awareness strategies. Over two years, the initiative will involve more than 100 students, faculty, and community partners through research projects, class projects, and independent internships. The Solution Center will provide match support of $75,000 from its Community Venture Fund and serve as Project Manager for the initiative.
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    The Significance of Race for Neighborhood Social Cohesion: Perceived Difficulty of Collective Action in Majority Black Neighborhoods
    (2012-03) Hobson-Prater, Tara; Leech, Tamara G.J.
    This article explores William Julius Wilson’s contentions about community cultural traits by examining racial differences in middle class neighborhoods’ levels of social cohesion. Specifically, we explore the perceived difficulty of these actions—as opposed to general pessimism about their outcomes—as a potential explanation for low levels of instrumental collective action in Black middle class neighborhoods. Our results indicate that, regardless of other neighborhood factors, majority Black neighborhoods have low levels of social cohesion. We also find that this racial disparity is statistically explained by shared perceptions about the amount of effort required to engage in group action in different neighborhoods. These findings emphasize that residence in a majority Black area—and the well-informed perceptions accompanying it—affect the lived experience of neighbors, even when they are middle class.