Race/Ethnicity

Jaquelyn Jahn, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, bridges research on structural racism, the criminal legal system, and health outcomes to examine the impact of the criminal legal system on individual, family, and community health, demonstrating why police violence should be viewed as a public health crisis.

Deborah Balk, with Daniela Tagtachian, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, uses a wealth of new data sources and measures to examine global, regional, and racial variation in exposure to low-lying coastal zones, demonstrating the need to address climate change through a social equity lens.

James Parrott, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, provides an update on his 2020 presentation, showing long-term trends in wages, employment, and inequality in New York City, including during the pandemic, and demonstrating the importance of local public policy in reducing racial and economic inequality.

Jacob Faber, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, assembles archival and census data from the past one hundred years to examine the long-term impact of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC, which was responsible for redlining) on large, enduring Black-white disparities in home ownership.

Brandon Martinez, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, brings together research on intergenerational mobility and racial/ethnic inequalities in home ownership to examine the differential impact of parental home ownership on children’s socio-economic attainment across racial/ethnic groups.

In this post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Enobong (Anna) Branch and her co-author Caroline Hanley explore themes from their recently published book, Work in Black and White: Striving for the American Dream.

Sociologist Orlando Patterson delivers the third Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture, "Slavery and Genocide: Jamaica, The U.S. South and the Demography of Evil, 1650–1830."

L. Monroy-Gómez-Franco, R. Vélez-Grajales, and G. Yalonetzky. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 61. 2023.

In this interview, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Tina Law discusses the origins and growth of computational social science, how she became a sociologist, and why receiving her doctoral degree was particularly meaningful to her.

L. Monroy-Gómez-Franco. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 58. 2022.