Book
Shani Adia Evans. We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking and a Black Sense of Place. University of Chicago Press.
Peer Reviewed Articles
Shani Adia Evans. 2021. “‘I Wanted Diversity, But Not So Much’ Middle Class White Parents, School Choice, and the Persistence of Anti-Black Stereotypes,” Urban Education 59(3), 911-940.
Shani Adia Evans. 2020. “When Schools Choose: Evaluation and Educational Inequality,” The Sociological Quarterly 61(3), 1-21.
Michael Bader, Annette Lareau, and Shani Adia Evans. 2019 “Talk on the Playground: The Neighborhood Context for School Choice,” City and Community 18(2), 483-508.
Annette Lareau, Shani Adia Evans, and April Yee. 2016. “The Rules of the Game and the Uncertain Transmission of Advantage: Middle-class Parents’ Search for an Urban Kindergarten.” Sociology of Education 89(4):279-299.
Reprinted in Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education.
Reprinted in Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education.
Other Writing
Shani Adia Evans. 2024. Children of a Troubled Time: Growing up with Racism in Trump's America,” Social Forces (Book Review)
Shani Adia Evans. 2020. Black bourgeois: class & sex in the flesh, Ethnic and Racial Studies (Book Review)
Eva Gold, Shani Adia Evans, Clarisse Haxton, Holly Maluk, Cecily Mitchell, Elaine Simon, Deborah Good. 2010. Transition to High School: School "Choice" & Freshman Year in Philadelphia Research for Action.
Tracey Hartmann, Rebecca Reumann-Moore, Shani Adia Evans, Clarisse Haxton, Holly Maluk, Ruth Curran Neild. 2009. Going Small: Progress & Challenges of Philadelphia's Small High Schools Research for Action
Eva Gold, Elaine Simon, Shani Adia Evans, Joseph Kay, Jeffrey Henig, Megan Silander. 2009. Year One Report on the Campaign for Better Schools: Building a Coalition, Gaining Recognition and Forging a Platform to Influence the Terms of the Mayoral Control Debate in NYC. Research for Action