For real change to occur, it is essential to consult the corpus of evidence-based scholarship on race, history, and public policy to help chart a path toward a more just and anti-racist future
Recent events have shone a spotlight on racial violence, police brutality, and the deep systemic issues that enable injustice and cruelty against BIPOC. Protests are calling not only for justice in individual cases, but for total reform of systems built on centuries of racism and inequality. For real change to occur, it is essential to consult the corpus of evidence-based scholarship on race, history, and public policy to help chart a path toward a more just and anti-racist future.
The following articles were selected by our journals’ editorial offices as works that offer valuable perspectives on various issues including systemic racism, racial violence, and social justice. They are free to read and download through August 31, 2020.
- “How Rising Income Inequality Threatens Access to the Legal System” by Robert H. Frank from Daedalus 148:1 (NOTE: this article is Open Access and freely available at all times)
- “Access to What?” by Rebecca L. Sandefur from Daedalus 148:1 (NOTE: this article is Open Access and freely available at all times)
- “Why Big Business Should Support Legal Aid” by Kenneth C. Frazier from Daedalus 148:1 (NOTE: this article is Open Access and freely available at all times)
- “The Twilight Zone” by Nathan L. Hecht from Daedalus 148:1 (NOTE: this article is Open Access and freely available at all times)
- “The Two Worlds of Race: A Historical Perspective” by John Hope Franklin from Daedalus 140:1 (Winter 2011)
- “Freedom, Equality, Race” by Jeffrey B. Ferguson from Daedalus 140:1 (Winter 2011)
- “Precious African American Memories, Post-Racial Dreams & the American Nation” by Waldo E. Martin Jr. from Daedalus 140:1 (Winter 2011)
- “Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today” by Lawrence D. Bobo from Daedalus 140:2 (Spring 2011)
- “The Past & Future of American Civil Rights” by Douglas S. Massey from Daedalus 140:2 (Spring 2011)
- “Shoot to Kill: The Use of Deadly Force by the Chicago Police, 1875–1920” by Jeffrey S. Adler from Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38:2 (Autumn 2007)
- “Cognitive Bias: Interracial Homicide in New Orleans, 1921–1945” by Jeffrey S. Adler from Journal of Interdisciplinary History 43:1 (Summer 2012)
- “Liberalism and the Limits of Inclusion: Race and Immigration Law in the Americas, 1850–2000” by David Cook-Martín and David FitzGerald from Journal of Interdisciplinary History 41:1 (Summer 2010)
- “Stereo Types: The Operation of Sound in the Production of Racial Identity” by Christopher Hight from Leonardo 36:1 (February 2003)
- “National Vitality, Migrant Abjection, and Coercive Mobility: The Biopolitical History of American Deportation” by Ethan Blue from Leonardo 48:3 (June 2015)
- “The Community Is Watching, and Replying: Art in Public Places and Spaces” by Anne Bray from Leonardo 35:1 (February 2002)
- “A Cautionary Tale of Urban Media Art: Media-Bait, Planned Censorship and Its Repercussions” by Lisa SoYoung Park and Maurice Benayoun from Leonardo 53:2 (April 2020)
- “Heritage and Debt” by David Joselit from October 171 (Winter 2020)
- “D37” by Cameron Rowland from October 168 (Spring 2019)
- “Legal Implications: Cameron Rowland’s Rental Contract” by Eric Golo Stone from October 164 (Spring 2018)
- “A Questionnaire on Monuments” by Lucia Allais et al. from October 165 (Summer 2018)
- “From Institutional Critique to Institutional Liberation? A Decolonial Perspective on the Crises of Contemporary Art” from October 165 (Summer 2018)
- “Philanthropy and Plutocracy” by Andrea Fraser and Eric Golo Stone from October 162 (Fall 2017)
- “Neoliberalism, Environmental Justice, and the Convention on Biological Diversity: How Problematizing the Commodification of Nature Affects Regime Effectiveness” by Kemi Fuentes-George from Global Environmental Politics 13:4 (November 2013)
- “Worlding the Study of Global Environmental Politics in the Anthropocene: Indigenous Voices from the Amazon” by Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue from Global Environmental Politics 18:4 (November 2018)
- “Race, Class and the Global Politics of Environmental Inequality” by Peter Newell from Global Environmental Politics 5:3 (August 2005)
- “Indigenous Struggles, Environmental Justice, and Community Capabilities” by David Schlosberg and David Carruthers from Global Environmental Politics 10:4 (November 2010)
- “Coal, Climate Justice, and the Cultural Politics of Energy Transition” by Benjamin Brown and Samuel J. Spiegel from Global Environmental Politics 19:2 (May 2019)
- “‘Be Your Own Man’: Student Activism and the Birth of Black Studies at Amherst College, 1965–1972” by Kabria Baumgartner from The New England Quarterly 89:2 (June 2016)
- “On the Need for Mapping Design Inequalities” by Mona Sloane from Design Issues 35:4 (Autumn 2019)
- “Knowing Their Space: Signs of Jim Crow in the Segregated South” by Elizabeth Guffey from Design Issues 28:2 (Spring 2012)
- “White and Fitted: Perpetuating Modernisms” by Kathleen Connellan from Design Issues 26:3 (Summer 2010)
- “Building a Black Bridge: China’s Interactions with African-American Activists in the Cold War” by Hongshan Li from Journal of Cold War Studies 20:3 (Summer 2018)
- “Torn Apart? The Impact of Manufacturing Employment Decline on Black and White Americans” by Eric D. Gould from Review of Economics and Statistics (Just Accepted)
- “Racial Disparity in Unemployment” by Joseph A Ritter and Lowell J Taylor from Review of Economics and Statistics 93:1 (February 2011)
- “The Effects of Affirmative Action Bans on College Enrollment, Educational Attainment, and the Demographic Composition of Universities” by Peter Hinrichs from Review of Economics and Statistics 94:3 (August 2012)
- “Does Temporary Affirmative Action Produce Persistent Effects? A Study of Black and Female Employment in Law Enforcement” by Amalia R. Miller and Carmit Segal from Review of Economics and Statistics 94:4 (November 2012)
- “The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents” by Roland G. Fryer Jr. et al. from Review of Economics and Statistics 94:3 (August 2012)
- “The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K–3: The Fragility of Results” by Timothy N. Bond and Kevin Lang from Review of Economics and Statistics 95:5 (December 2013)
- “On the Blurring of the Color Line: Wages and Employment for Black Males of Different Skin Tones” by Daniel Kreisman and Marcos A. Rangel from Review of Economics and Statistics 97:1 (March 2015)
- “Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment” by Abigail Wozniak from Review of Economics and Statistics 97:3 (July 2015)
- “The White/Black Educational Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long-Term Consequences of the Emergence of Crack Cocaine Markets” by William N. Evans, Craig Garthwaite and Timothy J. Moore from Review of Economics and Statistics 98:5 (December 2016)
- “Test Score Measurement and the Black-White Test Score Gap” by Jeffrey Penney from Review of Economics and Statistics 99:4 (October 2017)
- “Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities” by Allison Shertzer and Randall P. Walsh from Review of Economics and Statistics 101:3 (July 2019)
- “‘The Righteous and Reasonable Ambition to Become a Landholder’: Land and Racial Inequality in the Postbellum South” by Melinda C. Miller from Review of Economics and Statistics 102:2 (May 2020)
- “How Dark Is Dark? Bright Lights, Big City, Racial Profiling” by William C. Horrace and Shawn M. Rohlin from Review of Economics and Statistics 98:2 (May 2016)
- “Black Performance and Reproduction: A Set of Four Essays in a Round (Introduction)” by Beth Capper and Rebecca Schneider from TDR/The Drama Review 62:1 (Spring 2018)
- “There’s a lot of work to do to turn this thing around: An Interview with Anna Deavere Smith” by Richard Schechner from TDR/The Drama Review 62:3 (Fall 2018)
- “Shot and Captured: Turf Dance, YAK Films, and the Oakland, California, R.I.P. Project” by Naomi Bragin from TDR/The Drama Review 58:2 (Summer 2014)
- “Seizing the Stage: Social Performances from Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., and Black Lives Matter Today” by Jeffrey C. Alexander from TDR/The Drama Review 61:1 (Spring 2017)
- “Hissing, Bidding, and Lynching: Participation in Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon and the Melodramatics of American Racism” by Carrie J. Preston from TDR/The Drama Review 62:4 (Winter 2018)
- “Paradoxes of Professionalism: Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in the United States” by Risa Brooks from International Security 44:4 (Spring 2020)
- “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict” by Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenoweth from International Security 33:1 (Summer 2008)
- “Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application” by Sandra E. Black, Kalena E. Cortes and Jane Arnold Lincove from Education Finance and Policy 15:2 (Spring 2020)
- “Assessed by a Teacher Like Me: Race and Teacher Assessments” by Amine Ouazad from Education Finance and Policy 9:3 (Summer 2014)
- “Testing, Stress, and Performance: How Students Respond Physiologically to High-Stakes Testing” by Jennifer A. Heissel et al. from Education Finance and Policy (Just Accepted)
- “Does School Finance Reform Reduce the Race Gap in School Funding?” by Michah W. Rothbart from Education Finance and Policy (Just Accepted)
- “The Effect of Community Traumatic Events on Student Achievement: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks” by Seth Gershenson and Erdal Tekin from Education Finance and Policy 13:4 (Fall 2018)
- “The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina” by Helen F. Ladd, Charles T. Clotfelter and John B. Holbein from Education Finance and Policy 12:4 (Fall 2017)
- “Estimating the Relationship Between Preschool Attendance and Kindergarten Science Achievement: Implications for Early Science Achievement Gaps” by F. Chris Curran from Education Finance and Policy 14:2 (Spring 2019)
- “Racial Interaction Effects and Student Achievement” by Jeffrey Penney from Education Finance and Policy 12:4 (Fall 2017)
- “Teacher Mobility, School Segregation and Pay-Based Policies to Level the Playing Field” by Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd and Jacob L. Vigdor from Education Finance and Policy 6:3 (Summer 2011)
- “Unintended Consequences: The Impact of proposition 2½ Overrides on School Segregation in Massachusetts” by Jeffrey Zabel from Education Finance and Policy 9:4 (Fall 2014)
- “Were Minority Students Discouraged from Applying to University of California Campuses after the Affirmative Action Ban?” by Kate Antonovics and Ben Backes from Education Finance and Policy 8:2 (Spring 2013)
- “College Major Choice and Neighborhood Effects in a Historically Segregated Society: Evidence from South Africa” by Biniam E. Bedasso from Education Finance and Policy 14:3 (Summer 2019)
- “High Bars or Behind Bars? The Effect of Graduation Requirements on Arrest Rates” by Matthew F. Larsen from Education Finance and Policy (Just Accepted)
- “Intensive College Counseling and the Enrollment and Persistence of Low-Income Students” by Benjamin Castleman and Joshua Goodman from Education Finance and Policy 13:1 (Winter 2018)
- “Postsecondary Schooling and Parental resources: Evidence from the PSID and HRS” by Steven J. Haider and Kathleen McGarry from Education Finance and Policy 13:1 (Winter 2018)
- “Extracurricular Participation, “At-Risk” Status, and the High School Dropout Decision” by Laura M. Crispin from Education Finance and Policy 12:2 (Spring 2017)
- “Hold Back to Move Forward? Early Grade Retention and Student Misbehavior” by Umut Özek from Education Finance and Policy 10:3 (Summer 2015)
- “Adjusted Poverty Measures and the Distribution of Title I Aid: Does Title I Really Make the Rich States Richer?” by Bruce D. Baker et al. from Education Finance and Policy 8:3 (Summer 2013)
- “Identifying Preferences for Equal College Access, Income, and Income Inequality” by Bernardo Lara and Kenneth A. Shores from Education Finance and Policy 15:2 (Spring 2020)
- “Is There a Nativity Gap? New Evidence on the Academic Performance of Immigrant Students” by Amy Ellen Schwartz and Leanna Stiefel from Education Finance and Policy 1:1 (Winter 2006)
- “Workplace Support and Diversity in the Market for Public School Teachers” by Steven Bednar and Dora Gicheva from Education Finance and Policy 14:2 (Spring 2019)
- “Can Simplifying Financial Aid Offers Impact College Enrollment and Borrowing? Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence” by Kelly Ochs Rosinger from Education Finance and Policy 14:4 (Fall 2019)
- “The Costs and Benefits of Early College High Schools” by Drew Atchison et al. from Education Finance and Policy (Just Accepted)
- “Pathways to an Elite Education: Application, Admission, and Matriculation to New York City’s Specialized High Schools” by Sean Patrick Corcoran and E. Christine Baker-Smith from Education Finance and Policy 13:2 (Spring 2018)
- “The Effects of Demographic Mismatch in an Elite Professional School Setting” by Chris Birdsall, Seth Gershenson and Raymond Zuniga from Education Finance and Policy (Early Access)
- “Situating Africa” by Ruth Simbao from African Arts 50:2 (Summer 2017)
- “Condition Report 3: Art History in Africa: Debating Localization, Legitimization and New Solidarities” by Ruth Simbao et al. from African Arts 52:2 (Summer 2019)
- “Beyond Single Stories: Addressing Dynamism, Specificity, and Agency in Arts of Africa” by Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi and Yaëlle Biro from African Arts 52:4 (Winter 2019)
- “Restitution and the Logic of the Postcolonial Nation-State” by John Warne Monroe from African Arts 52:3 (Fall 2019)
- “Musée, colonisation, et restitution” by El Hadji Malick Ndiaye from African Arts 52:3 (Fall 2019)
- “Is Repatriation Inevitable?” by Allen F. Roberts from African Arts 52:1 (Spring 2019)
- “The Vigango Affair: The Enterprise of Repatriating Mijikenda Memorial Figures to Kenya” by Joseph Nevadomsky from African Arts 51:2 (Summer 2018)
- “Zimbabwe Mobilizes: ICAC’s Shift from Coup de Grăce to Cultural Coup” by Ruth Simbao et al. from African Arts 51:2 (Summer 2018)
- “Victory in War and Defeat in Peace: Politics and Economics of Post-Conflict Sri Lanka” by Prema-chandra Athukorala and Sisira Jayasuriya from Asian Economic Papers 14:3 (Fall 2015)
- “What Happens When Institutions Do Not Work: Jueteng, Crises of Presidential Legitimacy, and Electoral Failures in the Philippines” by Raul V. Fabella from Asian Economic Papers 5:3 (Fall 2006)
- “Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand: New Administrations, New Policies, New Performance?” by Don Hanna from Asian Economic Papers 5:3 (Fall 2006)
- “The Size and Distribution of Hidden Household Income in China*” by Xiaolu Wang and Wing Thye Woo from Asian Economic Papers 10:1 (Winter/Spring 2011)
- “The Societal Cost of China’s Rapid Economic Growth” by John Knight from Asian Economic Papers 15:2 (Summer 2016)
- “Recent Indonesian Economic Development and the Urgent Need to Remove Key Growth Obstacles” by Arianto A. Patunru and Tarsidin from Asian Economic Papers 11:3 (Fall 2012)
- “Understanding the Performance of the Electric Power Industry in China” by Guy Liu and Liang Zhang from Asian Economic Papers 11:2 (Summer 2012)
- “The New Challenges of Inflation and External Imbalances Facing China” by Yongding Yu from Asian Economic Papers 7:2 (Spring/Summer 2008)
- “How to Hear What Is Not Heard: Glenn Ligon, Steve Reich, and the Audible Past” by Janet Kraynak from Grey Room 70 (Winter 2018)
- “The Subject of Black: Abstraction and the Politics of Race in the Expanded Cinema Environment” by Nadja Millner-Larsen from Grey Room 67 (Spring 2017)
- “Post-Election Artists Dossier” from Grey Room 65 (Fall 2016)