Fred Harris Essay on Racial Inequality after Racism in Foreign Affairs
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An essay by CAAPS Director Fredrick Harris and Robert Lieberman, Professor of Political Science and Provost of Johns Hopkins University, is featured as part of a special issue on the global dimensions of race in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs. Their essay "Racial Inequality After Racism: How Institutions Hold Back African-Americans" calls for a re-focus on institutional racism and for stress tests--modeled after stress tests for financial institutions--to evauate the propensity of institutions to perpetuate racial inequality. Other contributors include the philosopher Anthony Appiah on the history of race as a concept, the political scientist Deborah Yashar on race in Latin America, and the political scientist James Gibson on race in South Africa.
Weblink: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/143049/fredrick-c-harris-and-robe...