Patrick Sharkey

One-line: Sociologist who studies racially concentrated poverty and the multigenerational inheritance of neighborhood disadvantage.

What we know

• Author of Stuck in Place, a major study of racially concentrated poverty. (source: The New Urban Crisis)
• Argues “neighborhood inequality is multi-generational, something that is passed down from parents to children in the same way that genetic background and financial wealth are transmitted across generations.” (source: The New Urban Crisis)

Mentioned in

• The New Urban Crisis — cited on the inheritance of neighborhood poverty.

Connections

• Stuck in Place — Sharkey’s study of racially concentrated poverty, attributed to him here.
• Richard Florida — author of The New Urban Crisis, the source that cites Sharkey on multi-generational neighborhood inequality.
• Poverty — Sharkey’s central subject: racially concentrated poverty passed down across generations.