The Global Lunchbox Podcast, produced by the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies, presents conversations with scholars in the social sciences and humanities about their current research on a range of critical global issues.
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Having the first African American woman in history on the 2020 Presidential Ballot could change the game among voters, according to Northwestern Professor Alvin Tillery.
Kamala Harris, a female and African-American Democrat from California, has made her platform known as …
Beth Redbird, Institute for Policy Research (IPR) sociologist and Professor of the Department of Sociology, took data from 1999-2015 measuring racial disparity in policing. Along with her graduate research assistant, Kat Albrecht, Redbird has created a county-by-county police …
In an effort to go beyond the “diversity, equity, and inclusion box check,” Dr. Alvin Tillery has created a “Leading Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” course which incorporates his findings from over 30 years of work in the field.
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Department of History Professor Geraldo Cadava discusses his book, The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump (Ecco, May 2020) in the Northwestern Now story: ‘Latinos aren’t naturally liberal or conservative’
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According to the Chicago Department of Public Health, there has been a statistically larger amount of Latinx and African American Chicago residents who have contracted or died from COVID-19 than white residents.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made a point …
The study, “A Penny on the Dollar: Racial Inequalities in Wealth Among Households with Children,” by Professor Christine Percheski of the Department of Sociology and Christina Gibson-Davis of Duke University, was published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World…
Professor James Druckman conducted a survey through Northwestern in conjunction with Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers in determining the Americans’ trust in governmental institutions such as the police. This survey was administered before and after the emergence of protests against police …
The study “Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Housing and Mortgage Lending Markets: A Quantitative Review of Trends, 1976-2016” examined how discrimination in housing and mortgage lending against blacks, Latinos and Asians has changed over the last 40 years by performing …
Sociology Professor Lincoln Quillian conducted a study on racial discrimination of labor markets in various countries. In the nine countries Quillian and his colleagues examined, they found evidence of hiring discrimination against non-white populations. The study, published in the journal …