Featured Research

Shades of Black: Gendered denominational variation in depression symptoms among Black Christians

Isolation: an Alternative to the “Acting White” Hypothesis in Explaining Black Under-Enrollment in Advanced Courses

A Subaltern Middle Class: The Case of the Missing “Black Bourgeoisie” in America

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Break Concrete: Imari Smith – The Elusive Black Middle Class

Top Reparations Scholars Dr. Sandy Darity And Kirsten Mullen Win American Book Festival Award

Cook Center Researchers Present at National Association for Gifted Children

How Can Funding from the Federal Infrastructure Bill Help Communities Like Hayti, Fractured by “Urban Renewal,” Rebuild?

On Veterans Day, lawmakers revive effort to pay families of Black WWII service members denied GI Bill benefits

The financial literacy gap doesn’t exist

Most measures of labor market ‘improved significantly’

Paid Research Opportunity for Duke Undergraduates!

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About Us

Concerned with the economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions that create an inequity of resources, opportunity, and capabilities, Cook Center researchers take a cross-national comparative approach to studying human difference and disparity.

Our Research

The Cook Center organizes its research as well as its programmatic and scholarship activities around its four primary research domains: Class, Wealth, & Social Mobility; Education & Training; Employment; and Health & Well-being.

Our Programs

The Cook Center has several programs that explore inequality in our communities and engage scholars of all levels, including a summer research program for local high schoolers and a recurring research seminar for undergraduate and graduate students.