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William 'Sandy' Darity Wins Prestigious Award from National Economic Association

from Stanford University

Duke Professor William A. “Sandy” Darity Jr. has been named as the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award recipient for 2012 by the National Economic Association (NEA). The award, the NEA’s highest honor, will be presented on Jan. 7, 2012, at the organization’s annual meeting in Chicago.

The Westerfield Award is named after the distinguished economist and former Ambassador to Liberia, Samuel Z. Westerfield. Established in 1973, it acknowledges outstanding scholarly achievements and public service by an African American economist. Previous recipients include Nobel Laureate Sir W. Arthur Lewis, Phyllis Wallace and Marcus Alexis.

In addition to being the Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy in the Sanford School, Darity is also chair of Duke’s department of African and African American Studies, a professor of economics and director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality. His research focuses on inequalities related to race, class and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution and the social- psychological effects of unemployment.

He is editor-in-chief of the new edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, published by Macmillan Reference in 2008.

The National Economic Association was founded in 1969 to promote the professional lives of minorities within the profession. The NEA focuses on producing and distributing knowledge of economic issues that are of exceptional interest to native and immigrant African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.

New Episode of Weekly Webcast ‘Left of Black’ to Feature Noted Black Economist William “Sandy” Darity

New Episode of Weekly Webcast ‘Left of Black’ to Feature Noted Black Economist William “Sandy” Darity

On the September 19^th broadcast of ‘Left of Black’ host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by noted economist William “Sandy” Darity, the Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Economics at Duke University. 

Darity discusses the Obama Administration’s methods of tackling the economic crisis and reveals his own approach to combating unemployment.  The professor then delves into his projects that educate youth by providing “gifted-quality education” and teaching research skills.  Darity, who is Chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke, also highlights the importance of African and African American studies to all Americans.   

The episode will also feature Duchess Harris, associate professor of American studies at Macalester College in Minnesota and author of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Obama.  In her book, Harris tours the movements of black feminist women under different presidencies and tells the story of the formation of the National Black Feminists Organization and Combahee River Collective, while highlighting how the face of feminism changes.  Harris also discusses the current controversy surrounding the film The Help.

“Left of Black” airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on Duke's Ustream channel, ustream.tv/dukeuniversity. Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.  

"Left of Black" is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke.

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