William A Darity
Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Economics and Duke Population Research Institute- Contact Info
- Location: Sanford 238
- Office Phone: (919) 613-7336
- Office Fax: (919) 681-8288
- Email Address:
- Mailing Address: 202A Sanford Building Durham, NC 27708
- PUBPOL 529S.01, RACE AND ETHNICITY
Synopsis
- Sanford 102, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
- PUBPOL 850.01, SOCIAL POLICY
Synopsis
- Sanford 05, M 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- Education:
- PhD, MIT, 1978
Research Interests:
Stratification Economics, Racial & Ethnic Economic Inequality, and Financial Crises in Developing Countries
Areas of Interest:
stratification economics
Current Projects: Skin shade and youth disconnectedness, , Ethnic conflict, ethnic diversity, and economic development, , Group based post traumatic stress disorder, , Racialized tracking in schools, , Employment guarantee
Research Summary:
Stratification economics; inequality by race, class and ethnicity; North-South theories of development and trade; social psychology and unemployment exposure; reparations; schooling and the racial achievement gap; financial crises in developing countries
- Recent Publications
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- William Darity Jr., "A New (Incorrect) Harvard/Washington Consensus: Review of William Julius' Wilson's More Than Just Race", Du Bois Review, vol. 8 no. 2 (Fall, 2011), pp. 467-476 [author's comments].
- William Darity Jr., Ashwini Deshphade, and Thomas Weisskopf, "Who Is Eligible? Should Affirmative Action Be Group- or Class-Based?", American Journal of Economics and Sociology, vol. 70 no. 1 (January, 2011), pp. 238-268 .
- Darrick Hamilton and William Darity Jr., "Crowded Out? The Racial Composition of American Occupations", in Social Science Research in Black Populations, edited by James S. Jackson, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, and Sherrill L. Sellers (2011) .
- Gregory Price and William Darity Jr., "Economics of Race and Eugenic Sterilization in North Carolina: 1958-1968", Economics and Human Biology, vol. 8 no. 2 (July, 2010) .
- William Darity Jr., "Obama and the Problem of Racial Inequality in Post-Racial America", Convergence Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 1 no. 1 (Summer, 2010), pp. 102-107 .
Previously he served as director of the Institute of African American Research, director of the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, director of the Undergraduate Honors Program in economics, and director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina.
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, doctrinal history and the social psychological effects of unemployment exposure.
He was a fellow at the National Humanities Center (1989-90) and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors (1984). He is a past president of the National Economic Association and the Southern Economic Association. He also has taught at Grinnell College, the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Texas at Austin, Simmons College and Claremont-McKenna College. He is Editor in Chief of new edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, (Macmillan Reference, 2008.)
His most recent books are Economics, Economists, and Expectations: Microfoundations to Macroapplications (2004) (co-authored with Warren Young and Robert Leeson) and a volume co-edited with Ashwini Deshpande titled Boundaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity (2003) both published by Routledge. He has published or edited 10 books and more than 125 articles in professional journals.
Darity lives with his family in Durham, N.C. where he plays harmonica in a local blues band, occasionally coaches youth sport, and enjoys reading science and speculative fiction.