The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity

Founding Director William Darity Jr. is among the many contributors to The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences double issue “Black Reparations: Insights from the Social Sciences”.

In a recent blog post about the issue, Darity defines and outlines the need for Black reparations, emphasizing that “acts of reparative justice are not unusual” and that, rather, the U.S. government’s provision of reparations in other cases has been “routine.”

Read more here: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/william-a-darity-jr-discusses-edited-reparations-issue-of-rsf-the-russell-sage-foundation-journal-of-the-social-sciences/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_slxxajovhp

Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. and Kirsten Mullen gave comments in conversation on the Marketplace Morning Report with host David Brancaccio and Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman on the state of reparations after Tulsa’s mayor recently announced a $105 million reparations plan.

"Whites are given an enormous largesse as the nation completes its colonial settler project in the West, while Blacks who are newly emancipated are not even given the land that they formally tilled for their slave masters."

Read more here: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/william-a-darity-jr-featured-in-marketplace-discussion-about-the-state-of-black-reparations/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_sufhp1vybx

Faculty Affiliate Loneke Blackman Carr, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut, published a pilot study in Eating Behaviors evaluating a 12-week online intervention called SATISFY, designed to prevent weight gain by addressing emotional eating.

In collaboration with Dr. Rachel Goode (UNC-Chapel Hill), the program combined appetite awareness training with lifestyle strategies for obesity prevention.

Learn more here: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/new-paper-from-loneke-blackman-carr-published-in-eating-behaviors/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_qhms14jwql

Faculty Affiliate Lisa Gennetian gave comments in a recent article examining how new tariffs on Chinese imports are raising the cost of essential baby gear.

"A lot of these items are not preferences, per se… You can’t leave a hospital with a baby without proof of a car seat, right?”

Read more here: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/lisa-gennetian-quoted-in-marketplace-article-on-effects-of-tariffs-of-goods/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_dhsgydfkvx

Founding Director William A. “Sandy” Darity, Jr. is cited in The New Yorker for his co-authored work with economist Darrick Hamilton on the Baby Bonds proposal. The article contrasts their proposal with a new savings account initiative proposed by President Donald Trump and House Republicans.

Read more here: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/director-william-a-daritys-baby-bonds-research-highlighted-in-new-yorker-article/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_9yregmtk1q

At the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, we believe that equity-driven work is not just about the research we produce but the people who shape it.

This summer, we celebrate the remarkable journeys of our community members who are transitioning into new roles, programs, and stages of life. Their contributions have left a lasting mark on the Center, and we are proud to share where their paths are leading next!

Read more here: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/celebrating-transitions-cook-center-scholars-and-staff-move-into-new-chapters/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_g0jirfbmnj

A new working paper by Sungmee Kim, Ph.D., Cook Center Postdoctoral Associate, sheds light on a troubling consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic’s shift to remote learning: a rise in severe child maltreatment that went largely undetected by schools.

Titled “The Unintended Cost of Distance Learning: An Analysis of Child Maltreatment,” the study is part of the Brown University Annenberg EdExchange Working Paper Series. Dr. Kim investigates how variations in remote learning across U.S. counties during the 2020–21 school year impacted child maltreatment reporting and outcomes.

Read more here: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/sungmee-kim-authors-working-paper-highlights-alarming-link-between-remote-learning-and-increased-risk-of-child-maltreatment/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_dwh1cusuz4

In a recent Bloomberg Law article, Carliss Chatman, associate professor at SMU Dedman School of Law and Cook Center faculty affiliate, examines Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s decision to deny review in Nicholson v. W.L. York, Inc.

“Discrimination in contracting rarely happens in a single, isolated moment,” Chatman writes. “Instead, it often unfolds over time through repeated denials that may appear procedurally neutral but, taken together, reflect systemic exclusion.”

Read more here: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/carliss-chatman-highlights-justice-jacksons-crucial-civil-rights-dissent-in-bloomberg-law/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_ifnfceb5qa

"What we now are observing is a situation in which the institutions and organizations that are truly committed to racial equity are continuing to do that, and the ones that were only displaying a commitment because of the climate of the moment are exposing themselves as not really having that same type of dedication to these principles.”

Founding Director Sandy Darity gave comments on an updated special coverage from WUNC asking North Carolina's Black leaders what has changed and what remains urgent in racial equity.

Read more: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/founding-director-sandy-darity-featured-in-wunc-series-calling-for-change/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_e2c5cigxib

Nancy MacLean, Cook Center faculty affiliate and William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, was recently quoted in a major DeSmog investigation revealing ties between current cabinet members and the organizations behind Project 2025.

Read more here: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/nancy-maclean-quoted-in-desmog-article-about-project-2025/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_lyt8row7h3

New Book Alert! Stratification Economics and Disability Justice by Cook Center core faculty Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards explores how the activism of Black disabled leaders must be central to how we understand and address economic inequality in the United States.

Available for order from Cambridge University Press and Amazon!

Learn more about the book here: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/new-book-from-core-faculty-adam-hollowell-and-keisha-bentley-edwards-explores-disability-justice-through-the-lens-of-stratification-economics/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_9zmxjz5ota

Faculty Affiliate Sarah E. Gaither co-authored a paper in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology titled, “Cross-cultural perceptions of racial ambiguity: Testing the universality of the ingroup overexclusion effect”.

And, co-authored a chapter in the Handbook of Experimental Social Psychology titled, “Social stigma and coping for people with pluralistic identities”.

Learn more about both here: https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/sarah-gaither-co-authors-new-paper-on-racial-ambiguity-in-journal-of-experimental-social-psychology/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_vux8al7dcb

https://socialequity.duke.edu/news/sarah-gaither-co-authors-chapter-in-handbook-of-experimental-social-psychology/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_rzuwi3djz3