Thursday, August 10, 2023

Rutherford on American Economists and Race, 1898-1945

Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria, has posted Racism, Segregation, Acceptance: American Economics and Black Issues, 1890-1945:

The American economics profession has a tortured relationship with the study of issues relating to Black Americans. This paper traces that history from overt racism in the period up to about 1910, the rejection of Du Bois' attempts to work with the American Economic Association, a long period during which Black scholarship on Black issues was simply ignored, to the gradual acceptance of work dealing with Black issues after World War II.
--Dan Ernst