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:[https://www.aeaweb.org/news/member-announcements-june-5-2020 Statement from the AEA Executive Committee (June 5, 2020)]
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:[https://www.neaecon.org/nea-anti-racism-statement/ Statement from the NEA (June 4, 2020)]
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==== Learn about the history of race and anti-Black racism in the U.S. through these works suggested by our colleagues and students. ====
 
==== Learn about the history of race and anti-Black racism in the U.S. through these works suggested by our colleagues and students. ====
  
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* Alexander, Michelle. [https://www.blackstonebookstore.com/book/9781620971932 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness]. The New Press, 2020.
 
* Alexander, Michelle. [https://www.blackstonebookstore.com/book/9781620971932 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness]. The New Press, 2020.
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* Anderson, Carol. [https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9781632864130 White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide]. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2016.
  
 
* Baradaran, Mehrsa. [https://hakimsbookstore.com/shop/philosophy/the-color-of-money-black-banks-and-the-racial-wealth-gap/ The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap]. Harvard University Press, 2017.
 
* Baradaran, Mehrsa. [https://hakimsbookstore.com/shop/philosophy/the-color-of-money-black-banks-and-the-racial-wealth-gap/ The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap]. Harvard University Press, 2017.
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* Benjamin, Ruha. [https://www.amazon.com/Race-After-Technology-Abolitionist-Tools-dp-1509526404/dp/1509526404/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code]. John Wiley & Sons, 2019.
  
 
* Coates, Ta-Nehisi. [https://bookshop.org/books/between-the-world-and-me/9780812993547?aid=1473 Between the World and Me]. One World, 2015.
 
* Coates, Ta-Nehisi. [https://bookshop.org/books/between-the-world-and-me/9780812993547?aid=1473 Between the World and Me]. One World, 2015.
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* Fanon, Frantz. [https://bookshop.org/books/the-wretched-of-the-earth-9780802141323/9780802141323 The Wretched of the Earth]. Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2007.
 
* Fanon, Frantz. [https://bookshop.org/books/the-wretched-of-the-earth-9780802141323/9780802141323 The Wretched of the Earth]. Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2007.
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* Flynn, Andrea, Susan R. Holmberg, Dorian T. Warren, and Felicia J. Wong. [https://bookshop.org/books/the-hidden-rules-of-race-barriers-to-an-inclusive-economy/9781108417549 The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy]. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  
 
* Kendi, Ibram X. [https://keybookstore.com/books/how-to-be-an-antiracist/ How to be an Antiracist]. One World/Ballantine, 2019.
 
* Kendi, Ibram X. [https://keybookstore.com/books/how-to-be-an-antiracist/ How to be an Antiracist]. One World/Ballantine, 2019.
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* Rothstein, Richard. [https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Color-of-Law/ The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America]. W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.
 
* Rothstein, Richard. [https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Color-of-Law/ The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America]. W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.
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* Zambrana, Ruth Enid. [https://bookshop.org/books/toxic-ivory-towers-the-consequences-of-work-stress-on-underrepresented-minority-faculty/9780813592978 Toxic Ivory Towers: The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty]. Rutgers University Press, 2018.
  
 
==== Articles and Reports ====
 
==== Articles and Reports ====
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* Coates, Ta-Nehisi. [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ The case for reparations]. The Atlantic 313, no. 5 (2014): 54-71.
 
* Coates, Ta-Nehisi. [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ The case for reparations]. The Atlantic 313, no. 5 (2014): 54-71.
  
* Gould, Elise, and Valerie Wilson. [https://www.epi.org/publication/black-workers-covid/ Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus—racism and economic inequality]. EPI Report. June 1, 2020.
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* Cook, Lisa D. [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10887-014-9102-z Violence and economic activity: evidence from African American patents, 1870–1940.] Journal of Economic Growth 19, no. 2 (2014): 221-257.
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* Gould, Elise, and Valerie Wilson. [https://www.epi.org/publication/black-workers-covid/ Black workers face two of the most lethal preexisting conditions for coronavirus—racism and economic inequality]. EPI Report. June 2020.
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* Hannah-Jones, Nikole, and Mary N. Elliott, eds. [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html The 1619 Project]. New York Times, 2019.
  
 
* <many in the [https://journals.sagepub.com/home/rbp Review of Black Political Economy]>
 
* <many in the [https://journals.sagepub.com/home/rbp Review of Black Political Economy]>
  
 
* <three popular press articles that spoke to a colleague personally: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/police-killings-black-mental-health.html, https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-black-professionals-unrest-lays-bare-a-balancing-act-at-work-11591202955, https://time.com/5848269/moms-equal-pay-day/ >
 
* <three popular press articles that spoke to a colleague personally: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/police-killings-black-mental-health.html, https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-black-professionals-unrest-lays-bare-a-balancing-act-at-work-11591202955, https://time.com/5848269/moms-equal-pay-day/ >
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* [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/arts/george-floyd-video-racism.html The Videos That Rocked America. The Song That Knows Our Rage]
  
 
==== Podcasts ====
 
==== Podcasts ====
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* [https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/ Scene on Radio: Seeing White]
 
* [https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/ Scene on Radio: Seeing White]
  
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* The Indicator: [https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867466515/racism-and-economics Racism and Economics], [https://www.npr.org/2020/06/05/871189460/unemployment-and-the-racial-divide Unemployment and the Racial Divide], and [https://www.npr.org/2020/06/11/875445743/story-of-a-paper Story Of A Paper]
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==== Films ====
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* '''I Am Not Your Negro''', a 2016 documentary film directed by Raoul Peck and based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House
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* '''Just Mercy''', a 2019 American legal drama film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, based on the [https://justmercy.eji.org/ memoir and work] by Bryan Stevenson
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* '''Selma''', a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb
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* '''13th''', a 2016 documentary by director Ava DuVernay tracing the history of race, slavery, and incarceration in  the United States
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==== Other ====
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* [https://lettersforblacklives.com/about-the-letter-ed27ea67eb2e Letters for Black Lives], resources and a [https://lettersforblacklives.com/mom-dad-uncle-auntie-grandfather-grandmother-family-c7525176ed14 letter] translated into over 40 languages
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* [https://www.aaihs.org/resources/charlestonsyllabus/# #Charlestonsyllabus] from the African American Intellectual History Society
  
  
 
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==== Related AEA resources ====
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==== AEA resources on race in the economics profession ====
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* [https://www.aeaweb.org/resources/member-docs/final-climate-survey-results-sept-2019 AEA Professional Climate Survey: Final Report] and summaries: [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/opinion/economics-black-women.html It was a Mistake for Me to Choose This Field], [https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=11280#page=16 (Professional) Climate Change]
  
[https://www.aeaweb.org/resources/best-practices AEA Best Practices for Economists]
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* [https://www.aeaweb.org/resources/best-practices AEA Best Practices for Economists]: Offers concrete, evidence-based steps to build a more diverse, inclusive, and productive profession
  
[https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/code-of-conduct AEA Code of Conduct]
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* [https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/code-of-conduct AEA Code of Conduct] and [https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/aea-policy-harassment-discrimination Policy on Harassment and Discrimination]
  
[https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/aea-ombudsperson AEA Ombudsperson]
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* [https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/aea-ombudsperson AEA Ombudsperson]
  
[https://www.aeaweb.org/resources/member-docs/final-climate-survey-results-sept-2019 AEA Professional Climate Survey]
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* [https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/csmgep CSMGEP]
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==== Journal articles on racial disparities ====
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These links present lists of the articles on race and racial disparities, which have been published in top economics journals over the last ten years or so. The editors of these journals volunteered to take inventories of their journals' publications on race in June 2020. (Each editor used slightly different criteria in developing their list of relevant papers.)
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*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/16HXw7aQSBVFcMx4sLibJRp5r6JfPC6tu/view?usp=sharing American Economic Journal:Applied]
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*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/11HcCnDhq3hM8pt2PXfAD3qRbzdd_WQZm/view?usp=sharing American Economic Journal: Economic Policy]
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*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VTg5D4OvSGLJ0RTMtcvAL_yenEcXQwAU/view?usp=sharing American Economic Review]
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*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_99MOrEMmUPJZL4BEpNVpmTjYqrTKC7/view?usp=sharing Journal of Economic Perspectives]
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*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E1eVXDU8yPkDZG5bZARll8C0h-DnuroB/view?usp=sharing The Review of Economics and Statistics]
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[https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/csmgep CSMGEP]
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https://twitter.com/ToddMichney/status/1407696728678191108
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https://www.minneapolisfed.org/~/media/assets/people/william-spriggs/spriggs-letter_0609_b.pdf

Latest revision as of 09:12, 6 July 2021

Statement from the AEA Executive Committee (June 5, 2020)
Statement from the NEA (June 4, 2020)

Learn about the history of race and anti-Black racism in the U.S. through these works suggested by our colleagues and students.

Books

Articles and Reports

  • Hannah-Jones, Nikole, and Mary N. Elliott, eds. The 1619 Project. New York Times, 2019.

Podcasts

Films

  • I Am Not Your Negro, a 2016 documentary film directed by Raoul Peck and based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House
  • Just Mercy, a 2019 American legal drama film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, based on the memoir and work by Bryan Stevenson
  • Selma, a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb
  • 13th, a 2016 documentary by director Ava DuVernay tracing the history of race, slavery, and incarceration in the United States

Other



AEA resources on race in the economics profession

Journal articles on racial disparities

These links present lists of the articles on race and racial disparities, which have been published in top economics journals over the last ten years or so. The editors of these journals volunteered to take inventories of their journals' publications on race in June 2020. (Each editor used slightly different criteria in developing their list of relevant papers.)



https://twitter.com/ToddMichney/status/1407696728678191108 https://www.minneapolisfed.org/~/media/assets/people/william-spriggs/spriggs-letter_0609_b.pdf