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The Production of Wealth Gaps between Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics

March 1, 2019
Harvard University Professor of Sociology Alexandra Killewald and Rice University Assistant Professor of Sociology Brielle Bryan argue in a recent post on the American Sociological Association's Work in Progress blog that racial and ethnic wealth disparities in the United States are the product of both legacies of disadvantage and inequality in contemporary achievement processes.

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2019 Apr 16

Mary Pattillo: Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

Department of Sociology - Colloquium Series presentation by Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University.

 

Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law

Abstract:
Who pays for the institutions of the criminal justice...

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2019 Apr 19

Gregory Davis: Black Republicans - Historically and in the Age of Trump and Anjie Chan Tack: “Nasty"men and "Ghetto" Girls: Black, Indian, and Caribbean Ethnic Boundaries in the New York Party Scene

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550
Contemporary Studies of Race & Ethnicity (CSRE) Workshop presentation by Gregory Davis, Graduate Student, Department of African & African American Studies, Harvard University and Anjie Chan Tack, Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. Read more about Gregory Davis: Black Republicans - Historically and in the Age of Trump and Anjie Chan Tack: “Nasty"men and "Ghetto" Girls: Black, Indian, and Caribbean Ethnic Boundaries in the New York Party Scene
2019 Feb 08

Charlotte Lloyd: Workplace Technologies of Difference and Anna Skarpelis: Going Native?

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

Contemporary Studies of Race & Ethnicity (CSRE) Workshop presentation by Charlotte Lloyd, Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University and Anna Skarpelis, Postdoctoral Fellow, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University.

 

Abstracts...

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2019 Apr 23

Margot Moinester: Deportation and Place: Assessing Drivers of Spatial Variation in U.S. Immigration Enforcement

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 601
Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop presentation by Margot Moinester, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University and Doctoral Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. Read more about Margot Moinester: Deportation and Place: Assessing Drivers of Spatial Variation in U.S. Immigration Enforcement

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