Publications

Articles & Book Chapters

Douglas, Karen Manges. (2008) “A Voice from the Grave: A Posthumous Dialogue with Norma Williams,” Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Annual. Edited by Norman K. Denzin. Vol. 32. Emerald Group Publishing. (pdf)

Douglas, Karen Manges and Rogelio Saenz.  (2008). “No Phone, No Vehicle, No English, and No Citizenship: The Vulnerability of Mexican Immigrants in the United States,” Pp. 161-180 in Angela Hattery, David Embrick, and Earl Smith (Eds.) Globalization and America: Race, Human Rights and Inequality.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.  (pdf
Lein, Laura, Karen M. Douglas, Kathleen M. Murphy. (2006) “U.S.-Mexican Border Families’ Responses to a U.S. Poverty Program: Making a Living on the U.S. Side of the Border.” Revista Trabajo Social.(pdf)
Douglas, Karen Manges. (2005). “An Account of a Life Lived: Herbert Blumer Revisited.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Annual. Edited by Norman K. Denzin, Vol. 28. (pdf)
Douglas, Karen Manges, Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland and Rogelio Saenz. (Forthcoming). “Navigating the Waters of the Texas-Mexico Border: Hydrological and Logistical Challenges of Operating Along an Asymmetrical Boundary,” Chapter 11 in Henry Casey Walsh, Irene Klaver, and John Donahue (Eds.) Neighborly Waters: American and Mexican Perspectives on Land and Water Use.   (pdf)

Encyclopedia Articles

Douglas, Karen Manges. (2008). “Hapa” for the Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Richard Schaefer (Ed.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (pdf)

Douglas, Karen Manges. (2008). “National Origins Systems” for the Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Richard Schaefer (Ed.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (pdf)

Douglas, Karen Manges and Rogelio Saenz. (2008). “Race in Hawaii” for the Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society, Richard Schaefer (Ed.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (pdf)

Douglas, Karen Manges and Rogelio Saenz. (2007). “Middlemen Minorities,” William Darity (Editor in chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, The Gale Group. (pdf)

Manuscripts

Lein, Laura, Deanna Schexnayder with Karen Manges Douglas and Daniel Schroeder. (2007). Life after Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.

 

Under Development

The Making of a Criminal: Immigrants and the Prison Industrial Complex (With Rogelio Saenz).

The Economic Benefits of Domestica Employment: The Case of Mexicans (With Rogelio Saenz).

Collective Thinking Helps Keep Us Safe: Lessons from Hurricane Response and Environmental Resource Management (With Lee Miller).

Growing up Bi-Cultural.
Immigrant Integration: A Focus on the Host Society (With Rogelio Saenz).
Towards a General Theory of Resource Use (With Gideon Sjoberg).

(Under revision) Douglas, Karen M. Quenching the Thirst: Managing, Marketing and Conservingthe Waters of Texas. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press.

Book Reviews

Poverty Knowledge by Alice O’Connor. The Great Plains Sociologist (Book Review). Volume 15, November 1, 2003.