The Hidden Rules of Race and Dream Hoarders Conference
Date and time
Location
JB Duke Hotel
230 Science Drive Durham, NC 27708Description
The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity is partnering with the Roosevelt Institute and the Brookings Institution’s Richard Reeves for a conference on October 26, 2017 entitled The Hidden Rules of Race and Dream Hoarders: A Conference Exploring the Historical and Contemporary Landscape of Race, Wealth, and Health Disparities in the United States.
Reception and Book Reading To Follow
**Please note the JB Duke Hotel’s parking area is located within the Science Drive parking garage on the lower level. There are seven dedicated accessible parking spots including van accessible. A walkway and ramp from the garage parking is located for ease of access to the main entry plaza. For assistance or more information, please call 919-660-6400. Parking is free with validation received during conferene registration**
The conference will feature authors of the forthcoming Roosevelt Institute book being published by the Cambridge University Press, The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy, and Richard Reeves, author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust. The convening will include multiple faculty and student panel discussions concerning racialized health and wealth disparities in a national environment where so much attention is being paid to the “white working class.” The conference will also feature a discussion between Reeves and Gillian White, senior associate editor at The Atlantic, moderated by Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, which is nominated for the National Book Awards nonfiction prize.
A reception with light hors d'oeuvres will be held at the JB Duke Hotel from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm followed by a formal reading and book signing from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Room 153.
The event is free and open to the public. Please register to attend.
SCHEDULE - THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017
9.00 - 9.30 am - Location: JB Duke Hotel
OPENING REMARKS
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr.
Founding Director, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity
Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics
Duke University
9.30 - 11.00 am
PANEL I: IN CONVERSATION – RICHARD REEVES AND GILLIAN WHITE ON DREAM HOARDERS
Nancy MacLean (Moderator)
William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy
Duke University
Richard V. Reeves
Senior Fellow - Economic Studies
Co-Director - Center on Children and Families
The Brookings Institution
Gillian B. White
Senior Associate Editor at The Atlantic
11.00 - 11.15 am
Morning Break
11.15 am - 12.30 pm
PANEL II: STUDENT RESPONSE TO PANEL I DREAM HOARDERS
Sarah E. Gaither (Moderator)
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Duke University
Eladio B. Bobadilla
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
Duke University
Caterina Chiopris
Student, Master of Arts in Analytical Political Economy Program
Duke University
Ajenai Clemmons
Ph.D. Student, Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
David Romine
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
Duke University
12.30 - 1.30 pm
Lunch
Location: JB Duke Hotel Dining Room
1.30 - 1.35 pm
THE HIDDEN RULES OF RACE: BARRIERS TO AN INCLUSIVE ECONOMY
Karen E. Maloney
Executive Publisher, Economics Books
Manager of Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
Cambridge University Press
1.30 - 3.00 pm
PANEL III: THE HIDDEN RULES OF RACE: WEALTH
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. (Moderator)
Darrick Hamilton
Associate Professor of Economics and Urban Policy
The Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy
The New School
Associate Director, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity
Marion Johnson
Policy Advocate, Budget & Tax Center
North Carolina Justice Center
Dorian T. Warren
Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
President, Center for Community Change Action
Felicia Wong
President and CEO Roosevelt Institute
3.00 - 3.15 pm
Afternoon Break
3.15 - 4.30 pm
PANEL IV: THE HIDDEN RULES OF RACE: HEALTH
Felicia Wong (Moderator)
Keisha Bentley-Edwards
Associate Director of Research, Director of Health Equity Working Group, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity
Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine
Duke University
Kristen Cooksey Stowers
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
University of Connecticut
Andrea Flynn
Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Adjunct Professor, Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Ciara Zachary
Policy Analyst, Health Advocacy Project
North Carolina Justice Center
4.30 pm
CLOSING REMARKS AND ADJOURNMENT TO RECEPTION AND BOOK READING
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr.
5.00 - 6.00 pm
Reception
Location: JB Duke Hotel
6.30 - 8.00 pm
Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
BOOK READING AND SIGNING: THE HIDDEN RULES OF RACE: BARRIERS TO AN INCLUSIVE ECONOMY
Andrea Flynn
Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
Adjunct Professor, Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Dorian T. Warren Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
President, Center for Community Change Action
Felicia Wong
President and CEO, Roosevelt Institute
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Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social EquityThe Duke University Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity is an interdisciplinary research center within Trinity School of Arts and Sciences that is comprised of faculty and scholars from across Duke and a diverse international group of affiliated universities, research centers and non-governmental organizations. Its mission is to promote equity, across all domains of human interactions, through interdisciplinary research, teaching, partnerships, policy, and practice. The Cook Center seeks to employ the innovative use of new and existing data, develop human capital, incorporate stakeholder voices though civic engagement, create viable collaborations, and engender equity-driven policy and social transformation at the local, national and international levels.
Roosevelt InstituteInspired by the legacy of Franklin and Eleanor, the Roosevelt Institute reimagines America as it should be: a place where hard work is rewarded, everyone participates, and everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity. We believe that when the rules work against this vision, it’s our responsibility to recreate them. We bring together thousands of thinkers and doers—from a new generation of leaders in every state to Nobel laureate economists—working to redefine the rules that guide our social and economic realities. We rethink and reshape everything from local policy to federal legislation, orienting toward a new economic and political system: one built by many for the good of all.