Frank Edwards PhD, Michael H. Esposito MA, and Hedwig Lee PhD use novel data and methods to estimate police-involved mortality risk in the United States. They contribute to the project of explicating racial disparities in police-involved deaths by describing the role of place.
Odis Johnson, associate professor of education and of sociology, both in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a two-year grant of nearly $300,000 to explore how national datasets can be used to promote broader participation of underrepresented race-gender groups in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.
Corporate codes of conduct have become the only game in town. The global economy is governed through private regulation. Companies contract auditors to monitor labour and environmental practices in their supply chains.
Adia Harvey Wingfield, a sociology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, has found that for black workers, emotional labor takes on a different tenor than it does for white workers.
An app that's something of a mix between LinkedIn and Yelp is hoping to bridge the entrepreneurial gap by connecting members of the community with black owned businesses. Learn what the app hopes to achieve, why Kansas City was chosen as a starting point and how under representation affects the economy.
Liberals and conservatives alike have condemned the Trump administration’s practice of separating and detaining families at the border. Professor Ariela Schachter expresses her opinion on this topic.
Annie Turnbo Malone became a millionaire early in the 20th century, when a million bucks still meant something. The article quotes Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield's words to explain it.
For the "bankblack" issues, professor John Robinson pointed out an example from the civil rights era: the Montgomery bus boycott.
American women are having so few babies these days that the fertility rate has hit a historic low. Professor Caitlyn Collins argues that we also need to make life better for working moms.
Recently, Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield is on a show talking about her article When Black Men Are Harassed At Work. She talked about: Some of her background and her educational background; why did she decide to research Black professional men and the workplace...
Adia Harvey Wingfield, Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, presents "The Persistent Problem of the Color Line: Researching Race in the 21st Century" at the 2018 Gender and Work Symposium.
Professor Caitlyn Collins comments on the attitude of the Americans when they see Swedish dads out with their kids. She points out that this reveals the gender equality problem in the U.S.