Race, Culture & Inequality Workshop, Harvard Department of Sociology





	Workshop on Race, Culture & Inequality 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 TBA 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	Coordinators: Anmol Chaddha Cassi Pittman Faculty Sponsors: Orlando Patterson Tommie Shelby Email Contact: race@wjh.harvard.edu