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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!

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!

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

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Dr. Phyllis A. WallaceDr. Wallace earned the faculty status of professor emerita of management within the Sloan School of Management. She is a labor economist who pioneered the study of sexual and...

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 )

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

https://twitter.com/CleoCZ/status/1133315979776282626?s=20

[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

[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 - Samuel L. Myers,...

Harvard University's Economics Department produced some of the leading African American economists between World War I and the Korean War. This essay explores t...

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

[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

Technology and the Dream

Transcripts of more than seventy-five oral history interviews in which the interviewees assess their MIT experience and reflect on the role of blacks at MIT and beyond. This book grew out of the...

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 - Margaret C. Simms, Cecilia A. Conrad,...

Efforts to diversify the economics profession have included increasing the number of African Americans and other people of color who enroll in and complete the ...

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

African Americans in Economics at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Since the Kerner Commission...

The campus of the University of Michigan experienced student unrest of the 1960s surrounding the Vietnam war and demands for racial inclusion. How the universit...

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

Black Women and Racial Advancement: The Economics of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander - Nina Banks,...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2006875?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

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

Democracy, Race, and Justice by Sadie T. M. Alexander, Nina Banks

The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander – the first Black American economist.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/29770460?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

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

[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

[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

[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

W. Arthur Lewis in Retrospect - Charles M. Becker, Terry-Ann Craigie, 2007

This paper reviews several themes from the writings of W. Arthur Lewis, both the first black Nobel Laureate in Economics and the first from a developing country...

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

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

[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

The Emergence of the Black Economic Research Center and the Review of Black Political Economy:...

This essay discusses the legacy of Robert Browne in the founding of the Black Economic Research Center (BERC), The Review of Black Political Economy, and the Ca...

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

The National Economic Association at 50: Getting Back to Our Roots - Olugbenga Ajilore, 2019

The National Economic Association (NEA) started out as the Caucus of Black Economists in December 1969. At the onset of the 50th Anniversary of the NEA’s foundi...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034644620919126

[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 -...

The Review of Black Political Economy has been a leader on issues of race and economics, politics, sociology and area studies. After half a century of shaping m...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0034644620926515

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