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.
Cook Center Founding Director William “Sandy” Darity, Jr., has been featured in the Winter 2024 issue of Dædalus titled Understanding Implicit Bias: Insights & Innovations. In this special issue, leading scholars, scientists, and policymakers examine the science behind implicit bias—the residue of stereotyped associations and social patterns that exists outside our conscious awareness but reinforces…
Faculty Affiliate and Health Equity Working Group Research Associate Dr. John Purakal, an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, was an executive producer on the film Good Guy with a Gun, released early this February on Apple TV and other platforms. Dr. Purakal was motivated to join the production given…
In the recent publication titled “How systemic racism and economic inequality contributed to COVID-19 disparities in America” in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), a distinguished team of researchers collaborates to address critical health disparities. These researchers include: Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Director of Research at the Cook Center and Director of the Health Equity Working Group….
Cook Center core faculty, Nancy MacLean, published an op-ed in the News & Observer titled “Duke leadership is letting down higher ed in a moment it should be fighting back.” In the piece, MacLean warns that American higher education is facing “the gravest menace to its mission in our history,” citing the Trump administration’s reported…
The Historic Durham Armory, the hopping location downtown that once featured acts from Duke Ellington to Ella Fitzgerald and was the inspiration for Ernie Barnes’ The Sugar Shack, hosted another lively event this week: A celebration of the 10th cohort of Young Scholars from the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute. …
Sandra Santillan first encountered the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute as a high school student at Hillside High School, encouraged by a teacher who recognized her strong writing skills. “I thought I was in trouble,” she says, recalling how her teacher pulled her aside. Instead, the teacher introduced her to…
