A Face-Scanning Algorithm Increasingly Decides Whether You Deserve the Job
Includes comments by Emma Rasiel, an economics professor who regularly advises students seeking jobs on Wall Street
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.
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Said@Duke: John Edwin Mason on Work of Gordon Parks
Historian and photographer John Edwin Mason talked about his work-in-progress, a book about 20th century African-American photographer, writer and filmmaker Gordon Parks, which will analyze Parks' LIFE Magazine photo essays on race and poverty.
February 20, 2020
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Said@Duke: Candis Watts Smith on Making Black Lives Matter
Candis Watts Smith, Ph.D. ’11, associate professor of political science and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University, recently gave a speech titled, “Do All Black Lives Matter to All Black People?” Her talk kicked off the Department of African & African American Studies spring commemoration of the 50th anniversary of black studies at Duke.
February 10, 2020
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Said@Duke: Jamillah Karim on Black History
Author Jamillah Karim participated in last week’s Black Muslim Atlantic Symposium honoring the legacy of C. Eric Lincoln.
February 05, 2020
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Said@Duke: Dikgang Moseneke on Freedom
Dikgang Moseneke, former deputy chief justice of South Africa and a 2020 Rubenstein Fellow, spoke this week at the Robert R. Wilson Lecture sponsored by Duke's Center for International Development and the Sanford School of Public Policy.
January 23, 2020
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Said@Duke: Dikgang Moseneke on Freedom and the Internet
Dikgang Moseneke, former deputy chief justice of South Africa and a 2020 Rubenstein Fellow, spoke this week at the Robert R. Wilson Lecture sponsored by Duke's Center for International Devceloment and the Sanfoird School of Public Policy.
January 23, 2020
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(UPDATED 1/8/20) Killing of Iranian Commander Raises Legal, Strategic Questions
Duke professors offer differing views of last week's incident
January 06, 2020
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Said@Duke: Kinohi Nishikawa on Novel Design and Black Pulp Fiction
Kinohi Nishikawa, assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University, spoke this week at Duke as part of the Department of African & African American Studies’ 50th anniversary speaker series.
December 06, 2019
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Said@Duke: Professor Mel Watkins on Black Comedy
Mel Watkins, a professor of humanities at Colgate University, spoke this week as part of the fall course, AAAS 331: Dick Gregory and the History of Black Comedy.
November 22, 2019
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Former Israeli Foreign Minister Discusses Conflict, Two-State Future
Tzipi Livni encourages students to engage on ideology and policy
October 24, 2019
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Conference to Focus on Inequities in Entrepreneurship
Oct. 23-25 event is free and open to the public
October 16, 2019
In the News
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Psychologists Provide Advice for Those Who Feeling Anxious, Depressed Around Valentine’s Day
Interview with Noga Zerubavel, a psychologist, relationship counselor and assistant professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
February 14, 2020
WTVD
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A Reparations Roadmap for 21st Century Black Americans
Interview with Sanford School professor William Darity and his wife, writer and folklorist Kirsten Mullen, co-authors of the forthcoming book, “From…
February 14, 2020
Texas Public Radio
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The Urban-Rural Divide Over the Environment
Covers a new Duke study; quotes Robert Bonnie, executive in residence at the Nicholas Institute, who led the project
February 14, 2020
POLITICO
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A Pauline (Barth-like) Dogmatics
Reviews Divinity School professor Douglas Campbell’s new book
February 13, 2020
Christianity Today Blog Forum
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‘Hair Love,’ Remembering Kobe Bryant and Michael Vick’s Road to Redemption
Interview with Mark Anthony Neal, professor and chair of the Department of African & African American Studies
February 13, 2020
WUNC’s ‘The State of Things’
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Duke’s Will Willimon Discusses Race
Podcast interview with the professor of the practice of Christian ministry at Duke Divinity School
February 13, 2020
WRAL
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For the First Time, the Journals at the Top U.S. Law Schools Are All Led by Women
Features law student Farrah Bara, elected last year to the editor in chief position at the Duke Law Journal
February 13, 2020
Forbes
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Trump Doesn’t Understand Why Black Voters Stick Together
Commentary co-authored by Ismail K. White, associate professor of political science
February 11, 2020
The Atlantic
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Exhibit, Coalition Highlight Durham Housing Inequality
Features an exhibit created through a joint effort by Duke University Chapel and First Presbyterian Church
February 11, 2020
Triangle Tribune
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Five Myths About Slavery
Links to the writings of history professor Thavolia Glymph, author of “Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household”
February 10, 2020
Washington Post