He is an authority on race, ethnicity, and urban communities. His publications include RED LINES, BLACK SPACES: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb (Yale University Press 2001 Reissued in paperback 2006) and The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies (Westview Press Sept. 2011). the second book uncovers important scholarship on ghetto-like communities in the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. His research interests include suburbanization, the black middle class, race and racial formation, and urban community organization. bdhaynes@ucdavis.edu