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Drake Addresses Long-Standing Problems of Educational Inequality in New Book

February 25, 2022

In his new book, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (University of California Press, 2022), Sean J. Drake looks at how race and class intersect, contributing to educational inequality and modern school segregation.

Lasch-Quinn Discusses History of DC Settlement Houses in Washington Post Article

February 22, 2022

Professor Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn was quoted in the Washington Post article, "In 1902, a remarkable and charitable house opened in a part of Southwest D.C. known as Bloodfield."

In Memoriam: Charles Willie G’57, H’92, A Champion for Social Justice

January 18, 2022

The legacy of alumnus Charles Vert Willie G’57, H’92 will forever be tied to that of his friend Martin Luther King Jr., making Willie’s passing a week before MLK Day 2022 especially poignant.

Jackson Discusses Police Use of Tasers in Asbury Park Press

November 10, 2021

Jenn M. Jackson, assistant professor of political science, talks about the use of Tasers by law enforcement in the Asbury Park Press article, "Tasers, hailed as a way to avoid deadly police shootings, are seldom used in NJ."

The Archaeology of Harriet Tubman's Life in Freedom

June 21, 2021

See related: Archaeology , Racial Inequality , Human Rights

Elizabeth Cohen quoted in Economist piece on race, class, wasted time

May 6, 2021

Whether it’s about being asked to produce more paperwork for a mortgage or waiting while someone white is bumped to the front of the queue, says Elizabeth Cohen, professor of political science and author of "The Political Value of Time," "waiting is part of the experience of racism in the U.S.”

Jackson quoted in Vox article on police reform

April 27, 2021

Following the Derek Chauvin verdict, President Joe Biden called for changing policing by "acknowledging and confronting, head-on, systemic racism and the racial disparities that exist in policing and in our criminal justice system more broadly." One such idea is to abolish the police. Proponents think communities can work together to regulate themselves without "anti-Black, white supremacist institutions," like the American criminal justice system and policing—which got its start with slave patrols—according to Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. Read more in the Vox article, "9 ideas to solve the broken institution of policing."

Yinger quoted in Daily Beast article on diverse communities

April 5, 2021

According to U.S. Census data, there is a 30 percentage-point gap in homeownership between Blacks and whites—larger than it was in the 1960s, prior to when the Fair Housing Act was passed.

Carboni's research on giving circles cited in Nonprofit Quarterly

February 22, 2021

The study, along with previous research conducted by Carboni on giving circles, was cited in the Nonprofit Quarterly article, "Can Giving Circles Democratize Philanthropy?"

Veil of Darkness

June 1, 2016

William Horrace uses an economist’s analytical approach to study whether traffic-stop patterns reveal racial bias by police officers.

See related: Inequality , Racial Inequality , Race & Ethnicity

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