Economics Webinar: “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century,” with William A. Darity Jr.

William A. “Sandy” Darity Jr. and Kirsten Mullen co-authors of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, will be featured in this concluding webinar in the fall 2020 series from UNC Asheville’s Department of Economics. This online event takes place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, and is free and open to all. Pre-registration is required at this link.

William Darity Jr.

Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University and has been interviewed and recently quoted in on the subject of a national reparations plan, in media including National Public Radio, CNBC, History News Network, Time Magazine, and others.

He also has expressed comments critical of the City of Asheville’s recent move toward some form of reparations in the Asheville Citizen-Times, The New York Times and ABC News.

Kirsten Mullen

Mullen is a folklorist and the founder of Artefactual, an arts-consulting practice, and Carolina Circuit Writers, a literary consortium that brings expressive writers of color to the Carolinas. She was a member of the Freelon Adjaye Bond concept development team that was awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s commission to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Under the auspices of the North Carolina Arts Council she worked to expand the Coastal Folklife Survey. As a faculty member with the Community Folklife Documentation Institute, she trained students to research and document the state’s African American music heritage.

Mullen was a consultant on the North Carolina Museum of History’s “North Carolina Legends” and “Civil Rights” exhibition projects. Her writing can be found in museum catalogs and journals, and in commercial media—and includes “Black Culture and History Matter” (The American Prospect), which examines the politics of funding black cultural institutions.

Co-sponsors of this webinar are the Cary Caperton Owen Professorship in Economics, and the student Economics Club.

For more information, please contact UNC Asheville’s Department of Economics at 828.251.6550.