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

News

‘Just About All of Our Land’: Report Shows Black Farmers Lost $326B Worth of Land from Dispossession and Discriminatory Policies

For Immediate Release: Sandy Darity Selected as 2022-2023 Radcliffe Institute Fellow

COVID-19 and Obesity Disparities for Black Communities

Inflation hits people of color hardest: Rent up so much ‘people don’t have a place to live’

Why One Economist Thinks Black Households Could Get $840K if Federal Reparations Were Issued

Black communities, disproportionately hit by inflation, step up to help those most in need

What Will Harvard’s Slavery Report Actually Change?

“Legally Stolen”: WBEZ panel discusses how land sale contracts robbed a generation of black homeowners

These undergraduates help connect patients in Duke’s ER with food, housing and utility support

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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.