Topic Race & Culture
Duke scholars are examining forces around race, class, gender, culture, sexuality and religion in their teaching and research and in the community.
Recent Stories
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Divinity Launches Program to Strengthen Leadership in Black Church and Beyond
Five-year multidisciplinary collaboration will bring together scholars and pastoral leaders
September 10, 2019
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Said@Duke: Yusef Salaam of Exonerated Five on His Wrongful Conviction
Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana asked Duke Law students to remember the story of the Exonerated Five as they begin their careers, and said that speaking to future members of the legal profession has helped them heal the emotional trauma from their case.
September 05, 2019
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Two Members of the ‘Exonerated Five’ to Speak at Duke Sept. 2
The event is sold out
August 27, 2019
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For Some, Church is Good for the Soul, But Not the Waistline
Black men attending church almost daily were nearly three times as likely to be obese than those who never (or very rarely) attended
August 13, 2019
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TIP Study Finds Using Local Criteria Identifies More Students as ‘Gifted’
Change would quadruple African-American and triple Hispanic participation
August 13, 2019
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How Segregation And Discrimination Racialized The Obesity Epidemic
America’s costly obesity epidemic disproportionately afflicts black and Latino populations, according to a new report from Duke University.
July 22, 2019
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Sandy Darity Has Some Thoughts About Inequality
May 30, 2019
Duke Magazine
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Baby Bonds: A Leg Up for Everyone
April 10, 2019
Sanford School of Public Policy
In the News
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Study: Most Low-Income Latino Parents Work. They Need Support In Other Ways
Covers research lead author by Lisa A. Gennetian, a visiting associate professor at the Sanford School
September 19, 2019
NBC News Online
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Which Black Americans Should Get Reparations?
Quotes Sanford School professor William “Sandy” Darity
September 19, 2019
The Washington Post Online
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A Wave of New Attention to Groundbreaking Composer Florence Price Reaches Duke
Previews a concert by a group of Duke performance faculty, students and alumni
September 18, 2019
Indy Week
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‘The Invention of Race’
A documentary produced and hosted by John Biewen, a research associate at the Center for Documentary Studies
September 17, 2019
Minnesota Public Radio
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How Predatory Housing Contracts Stripped Black Chicagoans Of Billions
Interview with artist-in-residence Bruce Orenstein and postdoctoral associate Clinton Boyd Jr.
September 16, 2019
WUNC’s ‘The State of Things’
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Researchers Analyzed Local News on Facebook. Here’s What They Found
Opinion article co-authored by Sanford School professor Philip M. Napoli and Robertson Scholar Peter Andringa.
September 13, 2019
Nieman Journalism Lab
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The Case for Reparations
Congressional testimony by Sanford School professor William Darity Jr.
September 13, 2019
The Crisis
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Anathea Portier-Young on Apocalyptic Literature and Theological Imagination
Podcast with the Divinity School professor
September 12, 2019
The Distillery
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Oral History, a Discipline That Records Once-Silenced Voices, Gains Ground in the Arab World
Features comments by Wesley Hogan, director of the Center for Documentary Studies
September 11, 2019
Al-Fanar Media
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No One Should Take Black Voters for Granted
Quotes from a working paper co-authored by political science professor Ashley Jardina
September 11, 2019
New York Times