Workshop on Race, Culture & Inequality
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Graduate Student Workshop
The workshop's goal is to support the development of graduate student research that adopts an innovative approach to the study of race, culture, and inequality. In addition to student presentations, this workshop will feature presentations by esteemed faculty whose research addresses race, class, and culture as well as related contemporary issues.
This year, the workshop is organized around the theme: "Popular Culture & Disadvantaged African-American Youth."
The workshop will meet on the dates below from 12:15p-2:00p in 1550 William James Hall, unless otherwise noted.
SPRING 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Growing Up in the Zone: An Analysis of a Unique Social Experiment in Harlem
Roland Fryer and Will Dobbie
Department of Economics, Harvard University
Friday, February 20, 2009
The Hip Hop Lifestyle: Exploring the Perils and Possibilities of Black Youth’s Media Environment
S. Craig Watkins
Department of Radio-Television-Film and Center for African-American Studies, University of Texas
Friday, March 6, 2009
Culture, Causality & Confusion: Why Bill Cosby is Wasting his Time
Glenn Loury
Department of Economics, Brown University
Friday, March 20, 2009
The End of Black Politics?: Black Youth in the Age of Obama
Cathy Cohen
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Friday, April 3, 2009
The Black Culture Wars: Constructing and Imagining Black Culture and Black Youth in the Age of Obama
Tricia Rose
Department of Africana Studies, Brown University
Friday, April 17, 2009
Social and Academic Effects of Participation in an Urban-to-Suburban Racial Desegregation Program
Simone Ispa-Landa
Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Friday, May 1, 2009
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FALL 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
What Participation Gap? Black Youth Cultural Production in the Youtube Era
Wayne Marshall
Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ethnomusicology, Brandeis University
Friday, October 17, 2008
"Graduating From the Streets": Alternative Status Attainment Models and Knowledge Systems in Hip Hop
Travis Gosa
Departments of Africana Studies and Sociology, Williams College
Friday, October 31, 2008
Race, Gender, School Engagement, and Hip-Hop Culture
Ronald Ferguson
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Director, the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard
Friday, November 7, 2008 -- SPECIAL EVENT
12-2pm
President Obama and the Future of Race in America
William Julius Wilson
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University
Orlando Patterson
John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Lani Guinier
Bennet Boskey Professor of Law, Harvard University
Friday, November 21, 2008
How the Media, Patriarchy, and Payola Profit from Women
Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting
African American and Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University
Friday, December 5, 2008
Murder by Structure and Conflict by Culture: Networks and Status in Street Gang Research
David Hureau
Department of Sociology,
Harvard University
Andrew V. Papachristos
Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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