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The @NEA organizes 2 sessions @ #ASSA2021 on "the History of African Americans in the Economics Profession" Here is a thread on existing historical resources.
I started it for a project on Wallace and it's ongoing --> Please
help me and add references!
I started it for a project on Wallace and it's ongoing --> Please
help me and add references!
Picture: 1984 Black Enterprise Board of Economists. Pictured clockwise: Bernard Anderson, Alfred Osborne, William Bradford, Glenn Lowry, Arthur Lewis, Marcus Alexis, Early G. Graves & Phyllis Wallace.
Source: MIT Black History Month project https://mitblackhistory.tumblr.com/post/132344198632/dr-phyllis-a-wallace-dr-wallace-earned
Source: MIT Black History Month project https://mitblackhistory.tumblr.com/post/132344198632/dr-phyllis-a-wallace-dr-wallace-earned
[general history] Closer to a comprehensive perspective are the two volumes edited by Thomas Boston (1997) A Different Vision: African American Economic Thought (Volume 1 https://g.co/kgs/j7QV9z Volume 2 https://g.co/kgs/EWW5Dc )
![[general history] Closer to a comprehensive perspective are the two volumes edited by Thomas Boston (1997) A Different Vision: African American Economic Thought (Volume 1 https://g.co/kgs/j7QV9z Volume 2 https://g.co/kgs/EWW5Dc )](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eqt_zWpW8AEqcCY.jpg "[general history] Closer to a comprehensive perspective are the two volumes edited by Thomas Boston (1997) A Different Vision: African American Economic Thought (Volume 1 https://g.co/kgs/j7QV9z Volume 2 https://g.co/kgs/EWW5Dc )")
![[general history] Closer to a comprehensive perspective are the two volumes edited by Thomas Boston (1997) A Different Vision: African American Economic Thought (Volume 1 https://g.co/kgs/j7QV9z Volume 2 https://g.co/kgs/EWW5Dc )](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eqt_0qZXMAA5kz7.jpg "[general history] Closer to a comprehensive perspective are the two volumes edited by Thomas Boston (1997) A Different Vision: African American Economic Thought (Volume 1 https://g.co/kgs/j7QV9z Volume 2 https://g.co/kgs/EWW5Dc )")
![[general history] Closer to a comprehensive perspective are the two volumes edited by Thomas Boston (1997) A Different Vision: African American Economic Thought (Volume 1 https://g.co/kgs/j7QV9z Volume 2 https://g.co/kgs/EWW5Dc )](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eqt_0qXXUAA9nSt.jpg "[general history] Closer to a comprehensive perspective are the two volumes edited by Thomas Boston (1997) A Different Vision: African American Economic Thought (Volume 1 https://g.co/kgs/j7QV9z Volume 2 https://g.co/kgs/EWW5Dc )")
Here is a thread on Lynn Burbridge’s chapter from volume 1 https://twitter.com/CleoCZ/status/1133315979776282626?s=20
Here is a link to a related AEA session published in AER proceedings "the history of AA economic Thought and Policy" (1990)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i334567?refreqid=excelsior%3A231ecbf488a8c34d1aa70d7f2b43639c
Here is a link to a related AEA session published in AER proceedings "the history of AA economic Thought and Policy" (1990)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i334567?refreqid=excelsior%3A231ecbf488a8c34d1aa70d7f2b43639c
[general history] Not specific to economics but a great collective biography by historian Francille Rusan Wilson: The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890–1950
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2470
![[general history] Not specific to economics but a great collective biography by historian Francille Rusan Wilson: The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890–1950 https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2470](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EquA803XIAAiGCO.jpg "[general history] Not specific to economics but a great collective biography by historian Francille Rusan Wilson: The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890–1950 https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2470")
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2470
[departments] Samuel L. Myers Jr on Harvard
The Production of Black Ph.D.'s in Economics at Harvard University, 1905–1955, 2017 published in RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1007/s12114-017-9244-2
The Production of Black Ph.D.'s in Economics at Harvard University, 1905–1955, 2017 published in RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1007/s12114-017-9244-2
[departments] @SandyDarity and Arden Kreeger on MIT
The Desegregation of an Elite Economics Department’s PhD Program: Black Americans at MIT, 2014 published in HOPE
https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/46/suppl_1/317/38782/The-Desegregation-of-an-Elite-Economics-Department?redirectedFrom=fulltext
The Desegregation of an Elite Economics Department’s PhD Program: Black Americans at MIT, 2014 published in HOPE
https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/46/suppl_1/317/38782/The-Desegregation-of-an-Elite-Economics-Department?redirectedFrom=fulltext
[departments] On MIT in general, a good ressource is Clarence Williams (2001) Technology and the Dream. Reflections on the Black Experience at MIT, 1941–1999
Free access to the ebook
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technology-and-dream
Free access to the ebook
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technology-and-dream
[departments] Margaret Simms and Cecilia Conrad on Stanford
Diversity in the Dismal Science: The Stanford Experience, 2019 published in the RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034644619850181
Diversity in the Dismal Science: The Stanford Experience, 2019 published in the RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034644619850181
[departments] Charles L. Betsey on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, specifically on "how the university, particularly the Department of Economics, responded in the aftermath of the Kerner Commission Report", 2019 published in the RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034644619880562
[individuals] On Sadie Mossel Alexander
Julianne Malveaux (1991) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2006875?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
@Nina_EBanks has two articles on Alexander
1/ Black Women and Racial Advancement: The Economics of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, 2005 in the RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1007/s12114-005-1028-4
Julianne Malveaux (1991) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2006875?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
@Nina_EBanks has two articles on Alexander
1/ Black Women and Racial Advancement: The Economics of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, 2005 in the RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1007/s12114-005-1028-4
2/ The Black Worker, Economic Justice and the Speeches of Sadie T.M. Alexander, 2008 in Review of Social economy
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29770460?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
And a forthcoming book (2021)! https://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300246704
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29770460?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
And a forthcoming book (2021)! https://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300246704
Francille Rusan Wilson "Becoming “Woman of the Year”: Sadie T. M. Alexander’s Construction of a Public Persona as a Black Professional Woman, 1920–1950", 2008 published in Black Women, Gender + Families
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/blacwomegendfami.2.2.0001#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/blacwomegendfami.2.2.0001#metadata_info_tab_contents
[individuals] Abram Harris
@SandyDarity & Julian Ellison
Abram Harris, Jr.: the Economics of Race and Social Reform", 1990 published in HOPE https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/22/4/611/11435/Abram-Harris-Jr-the-Economics-of-Race-and-Social?redirectedFrom=fulltext
@SandyDarity & Julian Ellison
Abram Harris, Jr.: the Economics of Race and Social Reform", 1990 published in HOPE https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/22/4/611/11435/Abram-Harris-Jr-the-Economics-of-Race-and-Social?redirectedFrom=fulltext
[individuals] Phyllis Wallace
Julianne Malveaux @drjlastword ,
Tilting Against the Wind: Reflections on the Life and Work of Phyllis Ann Wallace, 1994 in AER https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117809?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
+ A thread by me: https://twitter.com/CleoCZ/status/1206761881295306757?s=20
+ A thread by @D_Kuehn: https://twitter.com/D_Kuehn/status/1282667247916523520?s=20
Julianne Malveaux @drjlastword ,
Tilting Against the Wind: Reflections on the Life and Work of Phyllis Ann Wallace, 1994 in AER https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117809?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
+ A thread by me: https://twitter.com/CleoCZ/status/1206761881295306757?s=20
+ A thread by @D_Kuehn: https://twitter.com/D_Kuehn/status/1282667247916523520?s=20
[individuals] W. Arthur Lewis
Charles M. Becker and Terry-Ann Craigie,
W. Arthur Lewis in Retrospect, 2007 RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1007/s12114-008-9010-6
Charles M. Becker and Terry-Ann Craigie,
W. Arthur Lewis in Retrospect, 2007 RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1007/s12114-008-9010-6
Barbara Ingham and Paul Mosley
Marvellous Intellectual Feasts”: Arthur Lewis at the London School of Economics, 1933–48, 2013 in HOPE
https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/45/2/187/12516/Marvellous-Intellectual-Feasts-Arthur-Lewis-at-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Marvellous Intellectual Feasts”: Arthur Lewis at the London School of Economics, 1933–48, 2013 in HOPE
https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/45/2/187/12516/Marvellous-Intellectual-Feasts-Arthur-Lewis-at-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Mauro Boianosky
When the History of Ideas Meets Theory: Arthur Lewis and the Classical Economists on Development, 2018 in HOPE https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/50/S1/172/137277/When-the-History-of-Ideas-Meets-TheoryArthur-Lewis?redirectedFrom=fulltext
When the History of Ideas Meets Theory: Arthur Lewis and the Classical Economists on Development, 2018 in HOPE https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article-abstract/50/S1/172/137277/When-the-History-of-Ideas-Meets-TheoryArthur-Lewis?redirectedFrom=fulltext
[Institutions]
John W. Handy on history of the RBPE, the BERC, the Black caucus, based on archival work on Robert Browne’s papers
The Emergence of the Black Economic Research Center and the Review of Black Political Economy: 1969–1972, 2008 in RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1007/s12114-008-9022-2
John W. Handy on history of the RBPE, the BERC, the Black caucus, based on archival work on Robert Browne’s papers
The Emergence of the Black Economic Research Center and the Review of Black Political Economy: 1969–1972, 2008 in RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1007/s12114-008-9022-2
[Institutions, NEA] On the NEA 50th anniversary
Margaret Simms
Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going? 2020 in RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034644620919126
Olugbenga Ajilore
Getting Back to our Roots" 2020 in RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034644619850184
Margaret Simms
Where Have We Come From and Where Are We Going? 2020 in RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034644620919126
Olugbenga Ajilore
Getting Back to our Roots" 2020 in RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034644619850184
[Institutions, RBPE] Major G. Coleman
Reading and Leading: Interviews With RBPE Editors About the Past and the Future of the Review 2020 in RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034644620926515
Reading and Leading: Interviews With RBPE Editors About the Past and the Future of the Review 2020 in RBPE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034644620926515
