In this talk, Magee will present his findings regarding own-race bias among National Basketball Association (NBA) coaches and whether they give greater minutes of play per game to players of their own race even after controlling for player quality using performance statistics and player fixed effects.
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Repetition is one of the foundational aesthetic principles of Hip Hop Culture. Professor Peterson will explore various forms of repetition in African American cultural history and discuss the ways in which it figures within and throughout Hip Hop Culture.
Responding to scholars whose work has illuminated the distinctiveness of the 1930s in Britain, this project argues that more than seeking distinction, the canonical writers of the thirties – the self-identified “Younger Generation” – were profoundly concerned with the task of historicizing their decade and their own position within a national historiography from which they felt the Great War had excluded them. Inheritors of British cultural privilege but symbolically disenfranchised from a national, masculine identity inextricably linked to war, these writers address the problem of a national story dominated by imperial and military mythologies.
What does it mean to be Inuit and why should we care? Identity politics are at the core of everyday discussions about self, ethnic and national identity in the United States and beyond. Indigenous communities throughout the world are engaged in similar discussions. This colloquium examines how Canadian Inuit talk about their culture and their identity.
Ben Marsh works with a team of demographers, geographers, lawyers, and community activists in North Carolina and elsewhere on a project to identify and address subtle but damaging discriminatory practices, especially in small-town governments. Using GIS (a set of computer mapping tools) he helps the group demonstrate patterns of discrimination that would have been essentially invisible a decade ago. GIS readily illustrates a racial component in certain insidious patterns—such as access to public infrastructure (sewage and water), proximity to hazardous waste sites and other noxious facilities, detrimental zoning, highway expansion, unfair zoning practices, racially targeted code enforcement, and voting disenfranchisement […]