William A. Darity, A. Kirsten Mullen | Roosevelt Institute, 2020 | Article
The report that A. Kirsten Mullen and I prepared recently for the Roosevelt Institute significantly expands upon the argument we develop in our new book, From Here to Equality.
W.E.B. Du Bois | 1935 | Book
This is the book reading that inspired an extensive and ongoing revision of the narrative of the Reconstruction Era that had been advanced by the architects of the Lost Cause narratives of slavery, the Civil War and emancipation. Essential reading.
Eric Williams | Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1944 | Book
Williams' Capitalism and Slavery is a systematic presentation of three critical hypotheses about slavery and the British West Indies colonial system: 1) Slavery produced anti-Black racism rather than vice versa, 2) British abolition of the slave trade was motivated by raw economic and political self-interest rather than humanitarian sentiment and 3) The colonial slave trade and slave plantations — especially the sugar plantations — fueled the British Industrial Revolution.
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers | Yale University Press, 2019 | Book
The definitive study demonstrating that there was no gender divide among white Southerners with respect to the brutality exercised by slave owners.
Trina Williams Shanks | Center for Social Development Research, 2000 | Article
Shanks' study demonstrates the foundational role played by the Homestead Act in shaping subsequent Black-white wealth disparities in the United States.
William Darity Jr., Darrick Hamilton, Mark Paul, et al. | Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University and Insight Center for Community Economic Development, 2018 | Article
This study delineates and critiques an array of inaccurate, conventional beliefs widely held about the sources of Black-white wealth inequality in the United States.
Daina Ramey Berry | Beacon Press, 2017 | Book
A study of how markets in human property established prices for black people both in life and death in America under slavery that never loses sight of the deep dehumanization associated with these transactions.
A. Kirsten Mullen, William A. Darity | Teen Vogue, 2020 | Article
William A. Darity, A. Kirsten Mullen | University of North Carolina Press, 2020 | Book
