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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 Mar 26

Catherine Bueker: Political Incorporation, Dis-Incorporation, and Something in Between: Political Confidence as a Measure of Assimilation among Four Ethno-Racial Groups across 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Generation Americans

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 601
Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop presentation Catherine Bueker, Associate Professor of Sociology, Emmanuel College. Read more about Catherine Bueker: Political Incorporation, Dis-Incorporation, and Something in Between: Political Confidence as a Measure of Assimilation among Four Ethno-Racial Groups across 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Generation Americans

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