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.
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…
Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. was interviewed for a Forbes Talk by Ali Jackson-Jolley to discuss what economic freedom looks like in 2026. Dr. Darity is one of the leading voices in academia advancing the case for Black reparations in the U.S. He co-authored From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the…
A recent feature highlighted how Kisha N. Daniels, associate professor of the practice in education, continues to expand the reach of her service‑learning course, The Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop, through community‑centered partnerships with Durham Public Schools. The story follows a semester‑long collaboration between Daniels’ Duke students and 11th graders at Jordan High School, culminating…
A study coauthored by faculty affiliates Joaquin Alfredo‑Angel Rubalcaba and Alberto Ortega explore the effectiveness of worker‑driven social responsibility programs on infant health outcomes in migrant farmworker communities. Published in Demography, the research examines whether the Fair Food Program, a worker‑rights initiative supported by corporate premiums, has had measurable health impacts on the communities it…
