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  • On race, Obama sticks to a game plan of seeking steady progress within the system

    On race, Obama sticks to a game plan of seeking steady progress within the system The Washington Post 2015-01-18 Steven Mufson, White House correspondent, financial staff writer During racially tense moments that have beset the nation recently, many Americans have longed for President Obama to display some of the passion and soaring rhetoric that made…

  • How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America

    How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America The Diane Rehm Show WAMU 88.5 FM Washington, D.C. 2015-01-05 Diane Rehm, Host Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Pew Research Center Jim Tankersley, Economic Policy Correspondent The Washington Post William Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program (author of Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America)…

  • Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions

    Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions The Upshot The New York Times 2015-01-03 Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics Harvard University The deaths of African-Americans at the hands of the police in Ferguson, Mo., in Cleveland and on Staten Island have reignited a debate about race. Some argue that these events are isolated and…

  • Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent divides

    Our real police/race problem: Diverse forces, white resentment, and America’s persistent divides Salon 2015-01-02 Jim Sleeper Why diverse police forces can’t seem to trump the economics of racism, or the twisted politics of white resentment Nearly two decades before last month’s murders of New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu by a black…

  • Census Bureau’s Plan to Cut Marriage and Divorce Questions Has Academics Up in Arms

    Census Bureau’s Plan to Cut Marriage and Divorce Questions Has Academics Up in Arms The New York Times 2014-12-31 Justin Wolfers, Senior Fellow Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C. also: Professor of Economics and Public Policy University of Michigan If the Census Bureau proceeds with a recently released plan, then in a few years’ time,…

  • Researchers have been thinking about race all wrong

    Researchers have been thinking about race all wrong Vox 2014-12-15 Jenée Desmond-Harris Studies on race are a dime a dozen: researchers examine its relationship to everything from elementary school test scores to who’s most likely to develop diabetes to which groups are overrepresented in ethnic militias to who Americans vote for, and we read about…

  • Race as a ‘Bundle of Sticks’: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics

    Race as a ‘Bundle of Sticks’: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics Annual Review of Political Science Number 19 (2016) 2014-10-05 49 pages Maya Sen, Assistant Professor Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor Department of Politics Princeton University Although understanding the role of race, ethnicity, and identity is central to…

  • The Half Has Never Been Told with Edward E. Baptist, Ph.D.

    The Half Has Never Been Told with Edward E. Baptist, Ph.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-12-18 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-12-19, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Producer and Host Historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove…

  • Is Parental Love Colorblind? Human Capital Accumulation within Mixed Families

    Is Parental Love Colorblind? Human Capital Accumulation within Mixed Families The Review of Black Political Economy 2014-07-04 DOI: 10.1007/s12114-014-9190-1 Marcos A. Rangel, Assistant Professor Sanford School of Public Policy Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Studies have shown that differences in wage-determinant skills between blacks and whites emerge during a child’s infancy, highlighting the roles of…

  • Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

    Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America University of North Carolina Press October 2014 320 pages 59 figs., 4 maps, 23 tables, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-1783-1 Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University and The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) Princeton University Pigmentocracies—the fruit…