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Rick Hornbeck

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Economist, Economic Historian. Soccer Dad, Climber Dad. https://voices.uchicago.edu/richardhornbeck/

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · Jun 19

Just in time for #Juneteenth my new article “Creating Citizen–Subjects: Reconstruction and the Political Invention of Black Sovereignty” is now out in the Journal of Historical Political Economy. TL; DR: freedom was only the first step in creating citizenship. www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

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James Feigenbaum @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social · Mar 5

NEW PAPER: "Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history" with Jonas Helgertz and Joe Price now forthcoming (and nicely proofed) at Explorations in Economic History 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kiv03I~dW...

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Anjali Adukia @aadukia.bsky.social · Feb 27

So excited to share new work on the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era, joint with @rickhornbeck.bsky.social, Daniel Keniston, and Benjamin Lualdi!
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Rick Hornbeck @rickhornbeck.bsky.social · Feb 27

Excited to share this new paper on how race was constructed along socioeconomic lines in US history, during a period of unfulfilled potential for social change between emancipation and Jim Crow segregation

NBER @nber.org · Feb 27

Examining the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era finds that people with the same skin tone were racialized based on their wealth, setting a path for racial stratification, from @aadukia.bsky.social, Hornbeck, Keniston, and Lualdi https://www.nber.org/papers/w33502

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · Feb 24

Super cool to see a paper like this as an NBER working paper. I haven't tracked it systematically, but I think there's a lot more of this style of work on race and racism in econ now than when I started paying attention to the field in the 2000s. www.nber.org/papers/w33502

The Social Construction of Race during Reconstruction

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