The Samuel DuBois Cook Center is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
Faculty Affiliate Quran Karriem’s faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University was recently featured in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education! Dr. Karriem is a media theorist, electronic musician, and installation artist whose work explores the intertwined histories and futures of automation, race, and cultural production. Read more here: New Faculty…
Yesterday, William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr., Founding Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center, spoke at the Bob Moses Conference in Boston, where he outlined the staggering economic toll of slavery and mass incarceration. He noted that the wealth extracted from enslaved labor totals an estimated $18.6 trillion at a 3% interest rate, and could…
Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. gave a comment in a New York Times article discussing recent development in California’s efforts towards reparations. Earlier this month, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a series of bills that would have given descendants of enslaved Africans preference in college admissions, home loan assistance, and restitution for property seized…
Today, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy Emerita at Duke University, will speak with Professor Carol Anderson, Janai Nelson, and Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw at Columbia Law School. She will be apart of a panel, presented by The Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and the African American…
Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman, Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, wrote a column on how Tesla’s move to Texas is testing just how far modern corporate law will lean in favor of management. In 2024, Tesla strategically moved its legal home from Delaware to Texas. A move that positioned the company to benefit from…
Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, will deliver the Richard Payne Lecture in Faith, Justice, and Health Care this Friday. The event is hosted by the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School. Her lecture, titled Black Women’s Religion and Their Health: When Individual and Institutional Factors Intersect, represents…
