Race and Economics From INET

A collection of INET’s research and articles on race and the US economy, reposted in connection with recent protests against police brutality in Black communities.

Article

How Greedy Corporations Turn the Black American Dream into a Nightmare

By Lynn Parramore

May 24, 2021

The plight of white blue-collar workers is well-known, but Blacks in that category were feeling the squeeze long before their white counterparts.

Paper

The Unmaking of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class

By William Lazonick, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz

May 2021

Article

America Hasn’t Reckoned with the Coup That Blasted the Black Middle Class

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 29, 2021

Article

Missing Voters and Missing Unemployed Black Workers

By Julie Yixia Cai and Dean Baker

Mar 3, 2021

Article

James M. Buchanan, Segregation, and Virginia’s Massive Resistance

By James H. Hershman, Jr.

Nov 9, 2020

Video

Black Women's 'Double Gap' in Wages

Featuring Michelle Holder

Feb 3, 2021

Paper

Employment Mobility and the Belated Emergence of the Black Middle Class

By Joshua Weitz, William Lazonick, and Philip Moss

Jan 2021

Paper

Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration

By Peter Temin

Apr 2021

Event

Tomorrow’s Detroits & Detroit’s Tomorrows

Nov 11–12, 2016

Video

The Economic Legacy of Racism

Featuring William A. Darity and Rob Johnson

Sep 28, 2016

If additional education is not the solution to racial inequality, what is?

Article

Inclusive American Economic History

By Trevon Logan and Peter Temin

Jan 17, 2020

Containing Slaves, Freedmen, Jim Crow laws and the Great Migration

Video

Racist Violence and Economic Activity

Featuring Lisa D. Cook

Jan 5, 2017

Video

How America Turned Its Police Into an Army

Featuring Olugbenga Ajilore

Feb 28, 2018

Article

MIT Economist on Coronavirus: Young People “Going to Get Squashed”

By Lynn Parramore

Mar 19, 2020

Article

Learning from MLK, the Inconvenient Hero

By Rob Johnson

Apr 4, 2018