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Position, Power, and Property: Racial Economic Inequality in the United States

Race and Bias Conversations
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
William A. ("Sandy") Darity Jr.
Race and Bias Conversations

Join The Graduate School at 5:30 p.m. on March 24 for a Zoom conversation with William A. ("Sandy") Darity Jr. about his research on race and economic inequality in America. Darity is the 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. He has served as chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke.

Darity's research focuses on inequality by race, class and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, the history of economics, and the social psychological effects of exposure to unemployment.

This event is part of The Graduate School's Race and Bias Conversations series. Questions? Contact Assistant Dean J. Alan Kendrick at alan.kendrick@duke.edu or Assistant Dean Francisco Ramos at francisco.ramos@duke.edu.

Contact: Francisco Ramos