Cognella Academic Publishing Gender and Ethnicity in Washington, DC

While the population of African Americans in Washington, DC has been declining slowly in recent years, it still remains the majority ethnic group in the Nation's Capital. Yet one finds that European Americans now have a one-person majority over African Americans in the DC City Council, and men greatly outnumber women (the majority) in that political body. Moreover, while the mayor is an African American, none of his heads of the city's agencies is an African American. Gender and Ethnicity in Washington, DC is an anthology that examines the aspects that are related to ethnicity and gender in the city. This book reveals the perceptions of the city's residents regarding these aspects and illustrates why these perceptions are important.The selections in Gender and Ethnicity in Washington, DC cover a variety a topics, including:RecidivismHealth and Medical CareHigher EducationGentrificationEconomic Well-BeingDemographic ShiftsEnvironmental IssuesPolitical LeadershipMarriage and Family About the Author Abdul Karim Bangura holds Ph.D.s in political science, development economics, linguistics, computer science, and mathematics. Dr. Bangura is a professor of research methodology and political science at Howard University, and a researcher-in-residence at the Center for Global Peace in the School of International Service at American University. The author of 75 books and over 600 scholarly articles, Dr. Bangura won the prestigious 2012 Cecil B. Curry Book Award for African Mathematics: From Bones to Computers.