Race/Ethnicity

A panel discussion of how diverse coalitions across race and class can bring about much needed change to our political system, institutions, and social policies. Introduction by Leslie McCall.

A research spotlight on Chloe Thurston’s chapter in The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power looks at how the U.S. government’s delegation of social policy goals to the markets enables and reinforces racial inequalities.

A panel discussion of how diverse coalitions across race and class can bring about much needed change to our political system, institutions, and social policies.

Jessica Trounstine’s chapter in the recently published book The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power examines the ongoing impact of restrictive land use policies on inequality in metropolitan areas across the U.S.

The Reducing Inequality Network program is a collaboration among faculty and graduate students at the Stone Center, Columbia, and NYU.

B. Callaghan, L. Harouni, C. H. Dupree, M. W. Kraus, and J. A. Richeson. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. vol. 118, no. 38. 2021.

In this interview, Jaquelyn Jahn discusses two of her recently published papers, which examine the effects of policing, and police violence, on vulnerable groups: teenagers and pregnant women.

In this commentary, Nancy Folbre, director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the unequal impact of remote work on women.

In this commentary, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Bennett Callaghan explains why discussing the existence of inequality isn’t enough to change public opinion, and can even backfire.

In this commentary, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Jaquelyn Jahn, a social epidemiologist who focuses on health equity, discusses ways to prevent more illness and deaths in jails and prisons.