On October 11th, the 2024 German Law Journal Symposium: Legal Personhood featured a keynote address by Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman. Chatman is a Professor of Law at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. The title of Professor Chatman’s address was “The Battle for Global Human Rights: Super Persons vs. Partial Persons.”…
Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Dr. Prentiss Dantzler, Director of the Housing Justice Lab at the University of Toronto, contributed to a recent article discussing Canada’s housing crisis and how immigrants are unfairly blamed. He emphasized that the housing crisis has been ongoing for years and that politicians often use immigrants as scapegoats instead of addressing…
The Cook Center is pleased to announce that Founding Director, Dr. William A. Darity Jr. will deliver the opening keynote address at the upcoming “Behind the Data: Quantitative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Racism Research” conference. This significant event is organized by the WinRa Regional Network South, in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth and the University…
Cook Center Postdoctoral Associate Will Damron’s paper was used in a blog post comparing the implementation of electricity and mechanised cotton spinning as new technologies to the current implementation of AI as a new technology. Johan Fourie uses Damron’s newest paper, Gains from Factory Electrification: Evidence from North Carolina, 1905-1926, to support an argument that…
Directed by documentary filmmaker and Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Bruce Orenstein, Shame of Chicago: Shame of the Nation is a five-part documentary series that brings alive the story of how Chicago’s real estate industry designed and exported the practices and policies that racially divided America’s northern cities during the 20th century. In the 2023-2024 Chicago/Midwest…
By Rachel Ruff “Caste, Class, and Race: Inequality and Reparations in the US and India,” a brand-new program from Duke Immerse designed by the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, offers Duke undergraduates an opportunity to spend the spring 2025 semester exploring group-based, systemic inequality with a focus on India and the United States,…
Cook Center Core Faculty Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards was quoted in SELF article discussing medical gaslighting and how to respond to it. Dr. Bentley-Edwards provided important advice for patients navigating their healthcare experiences. In the article, Bentley-Edwards emphasizes the importance of being prepared for medical appointments, suggesting that patients identify their top three concerns to discuss…
A new episode of Sanford’s Policy 360 podcast takes a deep dive into one of the key issues shaping the 2024 election: racial wealth inequality and its influence on social policy. William A. Darity Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor and Cook Center Founding Director, joins the discussion with interim Dean Manoj Mohanan from…
Cook Center Postdoctoral Associate Elizabeth Degefe coauthored a piece in The Fulcrum. In the piece titled, The propaganda of ‘meritocracy’, Degefe and her co author, Jelani Ince, discuss current interpretations of merit and its effect on discussions of diversity, inclusion, equity and opportunity. Elizabeth is a Postdoctoral Associate in Duke University’s Samuel Dubois Cook Center…
Cook Center Doctoral Fellow Arko Dasgupta recently wrote a piece for the India International Centre Quarterly Journal. This piece, titled “Kala Bagai: An Early Indian Woman in America”, is an exploration through the life of Kala Bagai and the complexities immigrants starting a life in the United States face. Dasgupta was also featured in the…