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William A Darity

Professor of Public Policy, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Economics
CCFP Faculty Fellow

William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of African and African American Studies and Economics at Duke University.

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.

Education:

• PhD MIT - 1978

Teaching Fall 2012:

• 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

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. William Darity Jr. (Fall, 2011). "A New (Incorrect) Harvard/Washington Consensus: Review of William Julius' Wilson's More Than Just Race". Du Bois Review, 8(2), 467-476.  [author's comments]


2. William Darity Jr., Ashwini Deshphade, and Thomas Weisskopf (January, 2011). "Who Is Eligible? Should Affirmative Action Be Group- or Class-Based?". American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 70(1), 238-268.


3. Darrick Hamilton and William Darity Jr. (2011). "Crowded Out? The Racial Composition of American Occupations". In James S. Jackson, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, and Sherrill L. Sellers (Ed.).  Social Science Research in Black Populations.


4. Gregory Price and William Darity Jr. (July, 2010). "Economics of Race and Eugenic Sterilization in North Carolina: 1958-1968". Economics and Human Biology, 8(2).


5. William Darity Jr. (Summer, 2010). "Obama and the Problem of Racial Inequality in Post-Racial America". Convergence Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1(1), 102-107.

1. Samuel Z. Westerfield Address:From Here to Full Employment, National Economic Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 12, 2012

   From Here to Full Employment (DARITY - From Here to Full Employment-1., 480993 bytes)

2. "Affirmative Action Around the World", Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Delhi INDIA, January 03, 2011
3. "Racial and Caste Inequality: A Comparative Analysis", December 31, 2010
4. "Recent Developments in the Economics of Discrimination", December 28, 2010
5. First Annual Derrick Gondwe Memorial Lecture, Bucknell University, October 16, 2006

Curriculum Vitae