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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 5
🚨 New Book 🚨
Stratification Economics and Disability Justice by Cook Center faculty Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards
@keishabentley.bsky.social explores how the work of Black disabled activists can and should inform economic analysis of inequality in the U.S.

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Book cover of "Stratification Economics and Disability Justice" and headshots of co-authors Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards
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New post from our Faculty Affiliate @carlissc.bsky.social!

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Opinion: Tesla’s recent shareholder meeting demonstrates how state law can rewrite corporate democracy without ever changing the name of the game. It wasn’t just a win for Elon Musk; it was a test of how far modern corporate law will go to defer to the board.
Tesla Shareholders Show How Far Law Will Go to Protect the Board
Opinion: Tesla’s recent shareholder meeting demonstrates how state law can rewrite corporate democracy without ever changing the name of the game. It wasn’t just a win for Elon Musk; it was a test of how far modern corporate law will go to defer to the board.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Opinion: Tesla’s recent shareholder meeting demonstrates how state law can rewrite corporate democracy without ever changing the name of the game. It wasn’t just a win for Elon Musk; it was a test of how far modern corporate law will go to defer to the board.
Tesla Shareholders Show How Far Law Will Go to Protect the Board
Opinion: Tesla’s recent shareholder meeting demonstrates how state law can rewrite corporate democracy without ever changing the name of the game. It wasn’t just a win for Elon Musk; it was a test of how far modern corporate law will go to defer to the board.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Today at 2:30 pm! Featuring moderator @wilsonhartgrove.bsky.social and panelists William J. Barber, II; @nancymaclean.bsky.social; and John Witt
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Next Monday, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean will speak on a panel at the Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism symposium.

Learn more: http://theologyandpolicy.yale.edu?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_mmwi0qz68s

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November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Faculty Affiliate Fenaba Addo contributed insight on the impact of college loan debt across racial lines in webinar hosted by the Institute for Research on Poverty.

Full article: http://badgerherald.com?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_xawrx1iuf0

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November 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Capital B News highlights the expertise of Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. in their look what it would take to move forward reparations in NYC.

Full article: http://capitalbnews.org?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_nwbhdeatvw

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November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Next Monday, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean will speak on a panel at the Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism symposium.

Learn more: http://theologyandpolicy.yale.edu?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_mmwi0qz68s

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November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Good article about this webinar, featuring our Faculty Affiliate Fenaba R. Addo: badgerherald.com/news/campus/...
November 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Join us tomorrow, 10/29/25, for our webinar: "The Student Loan Crisis: Policy, Burden, and Borrower Well-Being" with Fenaba R. Addo, Dominique J. Baker, Daniel A. Collier. Learn more and register:
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October 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Faculty Affiliate Sandra L. Barnes’s recent research offers insight on the impact of faith, sexuality, and belonging in the lives of young Black people.

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Sandra L. Barnes publishes multiple studies examining faith, sexuality, and well-being among Black youth - The Samuel DuBois Cook Center
Faculty Affiliate Sandra L. Barnes, the C.V. Starr Professor of Sociology at the Brown University, continues to lead critical conversations on religion, identity, and the lived experiences of Black communities. Her recent publications explore how faith, culture, and structural factors shape well-bei...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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New post for @bloomberglaw.com from Faculty Affiliate @carlissc.bsky.social: "By constitutionally entrenching its pro-market posture, Texas is betting that predictability is the new subsidy."
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Texas Plan to Ban Securities Taxes Would Bolster Business Image
Opinion: A new ballot measure to constitutionally ban securities-transfer taxes could quietly reshape Texas' tax landscape if approved in November.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Congratulations to our Faculty Affiliate Sarah E. Gaither, who was named a 2025 Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)! https://spsp.org/news/spsp-news/2025-spsp-fellows-announced
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Two upcoming events/deadlines from @weare-org.bsky.social:
1. November 12 + 13 - Curriculum Workshop
2. November 21 - Deadline for proposals for Let's Talk Racism Conference 2026
Flyer for November 12 + 13 Curriculum Workshop Flyer for Call for Proposals for Let's Talk Racism Conference 2026. Deadline for submission is November 21, 2025
October 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Earlier this month, Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. spoke at the Bob Moses Conference in Boston, joining Bryan Stevenson, Ruha Benjamin, Rachel Barkow, and others to discuss the lasting economic and social impacts of slavery and mass incarceration.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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New paper on how heightened immigration enforcement reduces farmworker labor participation and work hours, reshaping the U.S. agricultural labor market -- from Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Abstract We demonstrate that unexpected increases in enforcement have a temporary but costly impact on labor supply among noncitizen farmworkers. Analyzing Current Population Survey data and immigration-related arrests, we find that unexpected increases in immigration arrests decrease labor force participation (LFP) among noncitizen farmworkers by up to 3.4 percentage points and reduce weekly work hours by up to 23.1% per month. These effects translate into a 1.38 percentage point decline in LFP and a 9.08% reduction in weekly hours worked across farmworkers. Our results suggest that localized enforcement exerts downward pressure on immigrant populations during periods when policies are not activated.
October 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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In a new publication for SSM-Mental Health, Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba examines how mixed-status families influence the mental health of foreign-born farmworkers, revealing both protective factors and unique stressors.
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Abstract Immigrant agricultural workers, especially unauthorized workers, face a range of severe stressors, including isolation, chronic job insecurity, and marginalization, leading to higher rates of mental health issues compared to native-born populations. This paper investigates mental health outcomes, focusing on symptoms of depression among agricultural workers within the US agricultural sector, specifically among unauthorized immigrant working parents living in mixed-status families (households in which there is a discrepancy in immigration status, often with parents lacking authorization and children having citizenship by birth). Using data from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS), which includes the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), we explore how the presence of US-born children influences parental mental health. Findings reveal that unauthorized parents in mixed-status families report significantly lower depressive symptoms than their nonmixed-status counterparts, suggesting that citizen children may act as protective factors. This difference was further stratified along particular domains within the CES-D scale. However, these children may also introduce new stressors, such as heightened fears of family separation. The study underscores the importance of nuanced investigations into how family dynamics intersect with immigration status to shape mental health outcomes. These findings highlight the need for further investigation of the mental health of workers in this vital economic sector, especially in light of the changing demographics of agricultural work since the last large mental health survey of agricultural workers in 2010.
October 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Founding director William A. Darity Jr. on Gavin Newsom's confounding approach to black reparations:

“He’s behaved like most Democratic Party politicians, which is to some degree evade making a full commitment to reparations." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Newsom Rejects Bills Providing Benefits to Slavery Descendants
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October 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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An amazing new article in ESSENCE Magazine from our associate in research Rachel Ruff!

"HBCU alums are constantly reminding the world that their institutions are not relics of the past but engines for the future."

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Meet The HBCU Students Redefining STEM, Style And Entrepreneurship | Essence
How Historically Black Colleges and Universities are defying the odds and creating a new class of innovators.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba co-authors a new study showing how heightened immigration enforcement reduces farmworker labor participation and work hours, reshaping the U.S. agricultural labor market.

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Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba Co-Authors Study on Immigration Enforcement and U.S. Agricultural Labor Supply - The Samuel DuBois Cook Center
Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has co-authored a new article titled “The effects of ongoing internal immigration enforcement on the U.S. agricultural labor supply” in t...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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🚨 S4E2 of Questions You Didn't Ask is LIVE! Niasha Fray, Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards & Farad Ali explore the hidden costs of “convenience” in underserved communities, economic inequities, & health equity. Listen & share! 🎧 niashafray.com/podcast
#EconomicJustice #HealthEquity #SocialImpact
September 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Happy to share this essay on the unevenness of evictions across the City of Toronto…check it out at @metropolitiques.bsky.social…

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wolf-powers.bsky.social Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · Sep 18
Great new piece by my @metropolitiques.bsky.social colleague @docdantzler.bsky.social Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto’s Unequal Eviction (...) - Metropolitics url:https://metropolitics.org/Visible-Minorities-Visible-Risk-Toronto-s-Unequal-Eviction-Burden.html
September 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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💥 Coming soon: Questions You Didn’t Ask Season 4, Series 4 💥
No Health, No Wealth — Economic Justice & Health Equity.
Guests Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards + Farad Ali explore systemic inequality, the “Black Tax,” barriers, and solutions for building #WealthEquity + #HealthEquity. #BlackSky
September 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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A bold new vision for the future of the Durham Freeway is taking shape. 🛣️

We share the three options being considered as part of the Reimagining Durham Freeway Study on Bull City Today.
September 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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If you have a kind word spoken about your work, there is no more authoritative and well respected voice than Sandy Darity👏🏾
August 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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📣 The latest volume of the Annual Review of Sociology is now online. View the table of contents arevie.ws/45CDuVR @marywaters.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Featuring a new paper, from Director Sandy Darity and past DITE fellow Stephan Lefebvre, "Root Causes of the Racial Wealth Gap: A Critique of the Fed View":

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Abstract We address the Federal Reserve's model for Black–White wealth inequality. The Fed view has it that the Black–White wealth gap, when measured with an "expanded wealth concept," is smaller than previously thought and primarily explained by income differences shaped by personal decisions around human capital acquisition and family structure. We argue that the expanded wealth concept inappropriately treats future income flows from Social Security and defined benefit pensions as an asset. Even using this measure, the absolute Black–White wealth gap increases with the adjustment. We present results using the PSID that demonstrate that parental wealth better captures transmission of intergenerational (dis)advantage.
August 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM