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Ken Kolb, PhD, is a professor and chair of sociology at Furman University in Greenville, SC. Ken Kolb is an expert on social inequality, community development, and pragmatic solutions to persistent social problems.
Professor, Sociology; Chair, Sociology. Email: ken.kolb@furman.edu. Phone: 864.294.2359. Office: Johns Hall 106C. Curriculum Vitae Website. Biography. Professional Activities. Ken Kolb is the author of Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate, which was a finalist for a 2023 James Beard Foundation book award in the category of ...
- Revitalization For Whom?
- Following The Data
- What The Furman Team Found
- Why It Matters
Greenville’s progress has come at a price. Housing has become unaffordable. Neighborhoods are gentrifying. These are facts: 1. The number of Black residents in the city has dropped every year for the past 40 years. 2. Racial economic inequality within the city is among the worst in the Southeast. 3. And Greenville’s historic Black neighborhoods hav...
A short drive through neighborhoods like Southernside and Nicholtownis enough for most people to recognize the demographic and economic changes taking place there. However, subjective opinions aren’t evidence. Research requires fact-finding; that means using data, and lots of it. The data compiled by our research team come from three sources: the d...
Our report on Greenville’s “revitalization” begins by investigating the historical origins of the city’s current racial geography. Greenville’s neighborhoods today are still shaped by the legacy of racist real-estate practices of the past.Our project documents one devious strategy in particular: racially restrictive covenants. These covenants, writ...
According to the most recent American Community Survey economic data, the median white household in Greenville makes 2.8 times more income than the median Black household, and the Black poverty rate (34.4%) in the city is nearly five times that of the white poverty rate. Given these numbers, it’s easy to see who wins and who loses when it comes to ...
Mar 11, 2022 · By Tina Underwood. Kolb’s book was released in December 2021. Ken Kolb, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Furman University, goes on record about the country’s “exclusionary” food economy in an interview hosted by the Food Policy Center at Hunter College in New York City.
Apr 27, 2023 · Greenville News. 0:03. 1:27. Author, department chair and professor of Sociology at Furman University, Kenneth Kolb, has been nominated for the 2023 Media Award by the James Beard Foundation...
- Food & Dining And Downtown Culture Reporter
Jan 20, 2022 · After doing 100 interviews with residents of two poor neighborhoods in Greenville, S.C., Ken Kolb ’98 believes that efforts to fix food deserts are “well intentioned but flawed.” Kolb, a professor of sociology and department chair at Furman University, shares his findings in his new book, Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert ...
About. I am Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Furman University with over 20 years of experience conducting community-based research by engaging with neighborhood groups and local...
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