Dear Staff, Scholars, and Researchers,

Please join us in the Library on Wednesday, February 24 at 11 AM for a seminar by Dr. William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr., entitled, “Rhetoric vs. Reality: Neoliberal Thought and the Racial Wealth Gap.”

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.

I hope to see everyone there.