As part of the Cook Center’s Duke Immerse program on Global Inequalities, undergraduate students crafted papers, presentations, ethnographies, and more to explore and document the specific inequities on display in education, wealth, health, and throughout society. With the semester-long program finishing up in late April, we now are highlighting this outstanding set of student work.
In the collection below, you will find comparisons of American and Chinese educational systems, as well as investigations of the roles of racialized tracking and respect in the American iteration and affirmative action in both; perspectives on long-term, global trends of economic disparities and on how wealth inequality in the U.S. will exacerbate the effects of the current pandemic; parsings of how social position varies both between Black, White, and Biracial Americans and based on parenting style; and considerations of various policies–be they immigration laws or municipality housing referendums–that have restricted the wealth accumulation of non-White Americans throughout history.
Above all, you will find a series of sharp and incisive analyses from bright young minds. Please take the time to read, enjoy, and learn from them.
Reports
- Coronavirus and Racial Wealth Inequality: How Will the COVID-19 Pandemic and Recession Affect the Racial Wealth Gap in the United States by Matthew Mizota
- The Development of Respect in K-5 Education by Cheyenne Quijano
- Does Affirmative Action Mean Social Equity? An Analysis of Affirmative Action Policies in China and the United States and Recommended Next Steps by Teresa Contreras-O’Reilly and Isaiah Mason
- Does Parenting Style Matter? A Review of the Mediation of Child Success Concerning Race and Social Position by Isaiah Mason
- Growth, Inequality, and the Kuznets Curve: Important trends in Income Inequality in Botswana, Brazil, China, and Thailand by Bigyan Babu Regmi and Carolyn Hoover
- Nearly A “Sundown Town” in the Northwest: Portland, Oregon by Teresa Contreras-O’Reilly & Jack Malsin
- Not Just Between Black and White: Historical and Modern Biracialism in America by Cayley Ryan
- Perpetual foreigners: A historical examination of the effects of racialized immigration and property laws on Asian American wealth by Cheyenne Quijano
- Problematizing Academic Tracking in US K-5 Schooling: An Autoethnography by Isaiah Mason
- Retention Rates and Support Programs: How do the American and Chinese educational systems support students throughout their entire educational career? by Cayley Ryan and Carolyn Hoover
