Barbara Harris Combs

Kennesaw State University — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Race, History, and American Society(10), Critical Race Theory in Education(8), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies(6), Risk Perception and Management(4), Homelessness and Social Issues(3)

Publications31 total

Push ‘Em Back, Push ‘Em Back . . . Way Back
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews·2025
Finding Black Joy in a World Where We Are Not Safe
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity·2023· 12 cited
How the shooting of Ralph Yarl demonstrates the fiction of a colorblind society in America
2023· 1 cited
The boundaries of confusion: Gerrymandering and racial disparities in state House and congressional district line congruity
Social Science Quarterly·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
The Ties that Bind: The Role of Place in Racial Identity Formation, Social Cohesion, Accord, and Discord in Two Historic, Black Gentrifying Atlanta Neighborhoods
Digital Archive @ GSU·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
‘Southern hospitality’ doesn’t always apply to Black people, as revealed in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery
2022
Bodies out of Place: Theorizing Anti-blackness in U.S. Society
University of Georgia Press eBooks·2022· 23 cited
How Ingrained Racism Became Invisible
Contexts·2021· 2 cited
Brandi Thompson Summers. <i>Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City</i>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 232 pp.; 16 halftones, 1 table, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (paper).
Winterthur Portfolio·2021
Disconnected in the Mecca? Black social media usage and levels of engagement in Atlanta
Journal of Urban Affairs·2020· 5 cited
Race and poverty matters: Black and Latino linked fate, neighborhood effects, and political participation
Politics Groups and Identities·2019· 30 cited
A Jim Crow State of Mind: The Racialization of Space in the McKinney, Texas Pool Party Incident
American Behavioral Scientist·2019· 7 cited
How the Rise of Color-Blind Racism Opened the Door for the Supreme Court Decision in Shelby County v. Holder
University Press of Florida eBooks·2018
When Home Disappears:
Bristol University Press eBooks·2017Open Access
"My Real Life Work Was Done at Atlanta": Aldon Morris on W. E. B. Du Bois' Career in Atlanta
Atlanta Studies·2017
People Like Us: Dominance-oriented Racial Affiliation Preferences and the White Greek System on a Southern U.S. Campus
Sociological Spectrum·2016· 4 cited
No Rest for the Weary: The Weight of Race, Gender, and Place inside and outside a Southern Classroom
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity·2016· 10 cited
When Home Disappears: How the Rise in Urban Foreclosures and Evictions Threatens Families
2016
The Symbolic Lynching of James Meredith
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity·2016· 13 cited
Active Voices: Social Capital, Dialogue, and Collective Action in Black Neighborhoods
SSRN Electronic Journal·2015Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Paul Slovic(5), Baruch Fischhoff(4), Sarah Lichtenstein(4), Todd C. Shaw(4), Kirk A. Foster(4), Jodi Skipper(2), John Sonnett(2), Obie Clayton(2), Stephen Read(1), Mark Layman(1), Bernard M. Corrigan(1), Bernard Corrigan(1), Kirsten Dellinger(1), Jeffrey T. Jackson(1), Kirk A. Johnson(1), Willa M. Johnson(1), James M. Thomas(1), Tracie L. Stewart(1), David Niven(1), Carolette Norwood(1)