PINCUS, Fred L. 1942-

PERSONAL: Born September 6, 1942, in New York, NY; son of Sam (a slipcover cutter) and Leah (an administrative assistant; maiden name, Kugler) Pincus; married Natalie J. Sokoloff (a university professor), March 12, 1982; children: Joshua M. Pincus-Sokoloff. Ethnicity: "Jewish." Education: University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., 1964, M.A., 1967, Ph.D., 1969. Politics: "Left." Religion: "Atheist."

ADDRESSES: Home—2417 Briarwood Rd., Baltimore, MD 21209. Offıce—Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Maryland—Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Cir., Baltimore, MD 21250. E-mail—pincus@umbc.edu.

CAREER: University of Maryland—Baltimore County, Baltimore, professor of sociology, 1968—.

WRITINGS:

(With Elayne Archer) Bridges to Opportunity: Are Community Colleges Meeting the Needs of Minority Students?, Academy for Educational Development (New York, NY), 1989.

(Editor, with Howard J. Ehrlich) Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views on Prejudice, Discrimination, and Ethnoviolence, Westview Press (Boulder, CO), 1994, 2nd edition, 1999.

Reverse Discrimination: Dismantling the Myth, Lynne Rienner Publishers (Boulder, CO), 2003.

Understanding Diversity, Lynne Rienner Publishers (Boulder, CO), 2005.

Contributor to books, including Risk-taking Behavior, edited by R. E. Carnoy, Charles E. Thomas (New York, NY), 1971; Cracks in the Classroom Wall, edited by
T. G. Robischon and others, Goodyear Publishing (Pacific Palisades, CA), 1975; The Great School Debate, edited by Beatrice Gross and Ronald Gross, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1985; A Handbook on the Community College in America: Its History, Mission, and Management, edited by George A. Baker III, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1994; and Education Is Politics, Post Secondary, edited by Ira Shor and Caroline Pari, Heinemann (Portsmith, NH), 2000. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Journal of Intergroup Relations, Race and Society, Critical Sociology, American Behavioral Scientist, Radical Teacher, Review of Education, Review of Radical Political Economics, Educational Forum, Harvard Educational Review, Insurgent Sociologist, and Current World Leaders.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Journal of American Ethnic History, fall, 1995, James Jennings, review of Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views on Prejudice, Discrimination, and Ethnoviolence, p. 56.