Lectures

October 16, 2006, 6:00 p.m., Lyceum 

Guest Speaker William "Sandy" Darity Jr. presents How it all began: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Origins of Underdevelopment.

Darity is Carl Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Economics, director of the Institute of African American Studies, adjunct professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina, and research professor of public policy, African, and African American studies, and economics at Duke University.

Dariety's research focuses on inequality by race, class and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, doctrinal history, and the social psychological effects of unemployment exposure.

Darity has published or edited 10 books and more than 125 articles in professional journals.

Sponsored by Africana Studies, the Department of Economics, and Pi Lambda Sigma honor society, and made possible by an endowment from Mr. William and Mrs. Gayle Keefer.