We’re joined this month by William A.( “Sandy”) Darity to discuss reparations for Black Americans. Sandy Darity is Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. A founding theorist of stratification economics and foremost…
Loyola introduced a new interdisciplinary minor in race and ethnicity this fall to help students develop critical skills in analyzing the role race and ethnicity play in a society rooted in hierarchies of power, according to Loyola’s website. The minor is an initiative by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Racial Justice…
DURHAM, N.C. – Barack Obama. Meghan Markle. Trevor Noah. Depending on your race, you might consider these and other Multiracial people as Black, White, or somewhere in-between, according to new research by psychologists at Duke University and the University of Chicago. Their report finds that Black and White children and adults categorize racially ambiguous faces…
SCOTT DETROW, HOST: The cost of health care behind bars is getting more expensive. Over the past three decades, the population of elderly people serving time in state and federal prison has skyrocketed. And it’s not just the elderly. LAUREN BRINKLEY-RUBINSTEIN: Prisons and jails are environments of risk. DETROW: Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein is an associate professor…
A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice (U California Press, 2023) gathers an accomplished interdisciplinary team of scholars-members of the Reparations Planning Committee-who have considered the issues pertinent to making reparations happen. This book…
Like many other Gen Xers, I had my first job at 14 years old when I got a permit to be legally employed. I earned about $3.35 an hour and the job itself was nontraditional – I was a proofreader at the global investment bank Lazard in midtown Manhattan. As a Puerto Rican girl growing…
For journalists, researchers and policymakers interested in understanding how job earnings differ across demographic groups, keep this mind: Measures of racial wage gaps that don’t account for prisoners and people who have been out of work a long time are probably missing the full economic picture, suggests new research by University of Massachusetts Amherst economist Jeannette Wicks-Lim. The…
The issue of reparations has been a topic of intense and heated debate and discussion in the U.S. for years, with advocates arguing for redress for historical wrongs and systemic racial inequalities. Dr. William “Sandy” Darity, a leading expert on reparations, recently appeared on a TV special focused on the concept of “40 Acres and a…
West Coast economist Brandon Ware was inspired to research food deserts when he had to drive nearly five miles before finding what he called “a full-fledged grocery store” while visiting family in Michigan. Food deserts are urban areas where residents have little or no access to affordable, fresh healthy food. Ware, an associate professor of…
Ph.D students at Duke University in Durham voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing Tuesday, the result of a years-long campaign to bargain collectively with the university. When the election is certified, the graduate student workers will form the first graduate union at a private university in the South and one of the largest unions in…