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Save to My PortfolioReflections on a Historic First

Hugh B. Price, August 29, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Reflections on a Historic FirstSenator Obama’s nomination is one for the history books, marking a key moment for African Americans and the country. Hugh Price reflects on the nomination, race relations, and the symbolism of a spectacle that evoked pride, awe and astonishment. The New Millenium, he says, has finally arrived. Read More

Political Conventions, Politics, Affirmative Action, U.S. Politics, Elections

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Obama Victory: Giving Affirmative Action Its Due

Hugh B. Price, June 24, 2008, Real Clear Politics

Hugh B. Price argues that the growing acceptance of diversity that fueled Senator Obama's victory was due to affirmative action, which unquestionably has made our robustly diverse nation a more perfect union. Read More

Social Norms, Affirmative Action, Politics

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioDiversity Goals Help Kids in School -- and Later in Life

Hugh B. Price, February 16, 2007, The Press-Enterprise (California)

Opinion by Hugh B. Price, The Press-Enterprise (2/16/07) Read More

Education, Children & Families, Race, Affirmative Action, Ethnicity

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioBlack Americans Reduce the Racial IQ Gap: Evidence from Standardization Samples

James R. Flynn and William T. Dickens, October 2006, Psychological Science

Article by William T. Dickens and James R. Flynn, Psychological Science (October 2006) Read More

Education, Inequality, Affirmative Action, Race, Ethnicity

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioChanging Faces: Immigrants and Diversity in the Twenty-First Century

Audrey Singer and James M. Lindsay, June 2003, Agenda for the Nation

In this chapter of a new Brookings book, Audrey Singer and James Lindsay discuss the rapid growth of America's Latino and Asian communities due to immigration and how the national narrative on diversity will no longer be only about whites and blacks. Read More

Immigration, Affirmative Action, Race, Ethnicity, Demographics

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioAffirmative Action: Don't Mend It or End It - Bend It

Peter H. Schuck, Winter 2002, The Brookings Review

Brookings Review article by Peter H. Schuck (Winter 2002) Read More

Education, Race, Affirmative Action, Ethnicity, Inequality

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioBeyond Sushiology: Does Diversity Work?

Peter Skerry, Winter 2002, The Brookings Institution

Brookings Review article by Peter Skerry (Winter 2002) Read More

Affirmative Action, Race, Ethnicity

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioAffirmative Action as an International Human Rights Dialogue: Considered Opinion

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Winter 2000, The Brookings Institution

Brookings Review article by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Winter 2000) Read More

U.S. Politics, Politics, Affirmative Action, Race, Ethnicity

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Save to My PortfolioEnding Welfare as We Know It

R. Kent Weaver, August 10, 2000

Weaver provides a definitive political history of the 1996 welfare reform lesgislation. He addresses three sets of questions about the politics of welfare reform: the dismal history of comprehensive AFDC reform initiatives; the dramatic changes in th Read More

Welfare, U.S. Poverty, Affirmative Action, Race, Ethnicity

BOOK

Save to My PortfolioCounting on the Census?

Peter Skerry, April 13, 2000

In Counting on the Census? Peter Skerry confirms the persistence of minority undercounts and insists that racial and ethnic data are critical to the administration of policies affecting minorities. Read More

Campaign Finance, Affirmative Action, Race, Ethnicity

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioA New Civil Rights Agenda: A New Leadership Is Making a Difference

Joyce A. Ladner, Spring 2000, The Brookings Institution

Brookings Review article by Joyce Ladner (Spring 2000) Read More

Affirmative Action, Race, Ethnicity

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioMinority Groups in the Economics Profession

Susan M. Collins, Spring 2000, The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Paper by Susan M. Collins (Spring 2000) Read More

Affirmative Action, Race, Ethnicity

BOOK

Save to My PortfolioBrookings Papers on Education Policy: 2000

Diane Ravitch, January 27, 2000

Subscribe to Brookings Papers on Education Policy

Edited by Diane Ravitch, one of the nation's foremost education authorities, B Read More

Education, Race, Affirmative Action, Ethnicity

BOOK

Save to My PortfolioThe African-American Predicament

Christopher H. Foreman, Jr., October 08, 1999

This book examines the vexing reality of racial conditions in America today: improved overall, but far more complicated than they used to seem, and in important respects continually depressing. Read More

Affirmative Action, Race, Ethnicity

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Save to My PortfolioRace in America: New Approaches to Bridging the Divide

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Featured Experts

Christopher H. Foreman, Jr.

Christopher H. Foreman, Jr.

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Governance Studies

Christopher Foreman’s research includes the politics of health, race, and government reform. He is a professor and directs the social policy program at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy.


Christopher H. Foreman, Jr.

Hugh B. Price

Hugh B. Price

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

Former president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, Hugh Price is an expert on education, civil rights, equal opportunity and criminal justice. His 40-year career spans journalism, philanthropy, the law, and social advocacy.
Hugh B. Price

William T. Dickens

William T. Dickens

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

Bill Dickens researches the malleability of cognitive ability; fiscal effects of investment in early education; the relationship of inflation, wage and unemployment; and economic development. He is currently collaborating in using data on individual wage changes to measure the extent, nature, causes and consequences of wage rigidity.

 
William T. Dickens

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