The Kerner Commission Report

1968 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-263 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Commission Report ◽  
Kerner Commission

The Community Response: An Excerpt from the Kerner Commission Report

2017 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Community Response ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Kerner Commission

The Kerner Commission Report Twenty Years Later

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-127
Author(s):  
F. Harold Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Commission Report ◽  
Kerner Commission

The Kerner Commission Report: Did It Incentivize or Cause an Increase in the Production and Hiring of Black PhD Economists in Academia?

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-361
Author(s):  
Gregory N. Price
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
The United States ◽  
Parameter Estimates ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Economics Department ◽  
Kerner Commission ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
Black Economists

Approximately 50 years ago, the Kerner Commission Report cited pervasive racial discrimination in training, education, and employment as a contributor to Black–White inequality and stratification in the United States. This article considers if the Kerner Commission Report incentivized and possibly caused an increase in the production and hiring of Black PhD economists in academia. With longitudinal data on counts of economic doctorates earned by Black Americans employed in economics departments between 1957 and 2018, we estimate the parameters of count data specifications that accounts for the 1968 Kerner Commission Report dichotomously. Parameter estimates from mixed and fixed effect Poisson, negative binomial, and Poisson quantile specifications suggest that while the Kerner Commission Report generally had a positive effect on the number of Black American economics doctorates employed as faculty, it had no effect on the hiring of Black economists at the typical research institution and PhD-granting economics department. Our results suggest that similar to the Kerner Commission Report characterization of the United States being two separate racially stratified societies, approximately 50 years later research institutions and PhD-granting economics departments in the United States are similarly racially stratified.

scholarly journals THE “WORK” RACE DOES

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence D. Bobo ◽  
Michael C. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Fortieth Anniversary ◽  
National Advisory Commission ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Advisory Commission ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Kerner Commission ◽  
Martin Luther King

The year 2008 has provided many opportunities to look back and take stock of what has and has not changed along the color line. Perhaps of greatest salience is that this year marks four decades of uneven progress since the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. It also marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of what became known as the Kerner Commission report (National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders 1968). The great sadness following those tragic deaths, and the somber tone set by the “two nations” declaration at the heart of the Kerner Report, call to mind an era of acute racial division, but also of steady struggle for change.

Kerner Commission Report

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daryl Carter
Keyword(s):  
Commission Report ◽  
Kerner Commission

Two Nations

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Dewey M. Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Lyndon Johnson ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Kerner Commission

The landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision outlawed public school segregation and was the catalyst for the nonviolent civil rights movement and some positive change for African Americans. However, in 1967, race riots broke out in largely African American urban districts across America, leading President Lyndon Johnson to form the Kerner Commission to determine the underlying causes of the riots. This paper explores the causes of the riots and the government’s response to them after the Kerner Commission’s findings, and then uses critical race theory as a theoretical framework to determine why institutional racism continues to be pervasive in society. The author focuses on three main areas: school desegregation; mass incarceration and police brutality; and sports, race, and activism to discuss the lack of progress between the Kerner Commission report and today.

Kerner Commission Report

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Marie Stur
Keyword(s):  
Commission Report ◽  
Kerner Commission

The Kerner Commission Report and Educational Failure: Twenty Years Later

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-137
Author(s):  
Hardy T. Frye
Keyword(s):  
Educational Failure ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Kerner Commission

African Americans in Economics at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Since the Kerner Commission Report of 1968

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-398
Author(s):  
Charles L. Betsey
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Faculty Diversity ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Kerner Commission ◽  
Black Economists ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

The campus of the University of Michigan experienced student unrest of the 1960s surrounding the Vietnam war and demands for racial inclusion. How the university, particularly the Department of Economics, responded in the aftermath of the Kerner Commission Report is the focus of this article. Michigan is not unique in producing few Black PhD economists over its history, having graduated 15 Black PhD economists of the more than 1,100 who have graduated from the department to date. Supreme Court decisions and a state ballot initiative halted the progress that was being made by the University to improve student and faculty diversity. Despite this, Michigan is one of only a few economics departments at majority institutions to have been home to several Black economists simultaneously. The fact that this is a notable statistic speaks to the lack of diversity of economics faculties nationwide.

Introduction to the Special Edition of the Review of Black Political Economy on Revisiting the Kerner Commission Report

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-258
Author(s):  
Susan T. Gooden ◽  
Samuel L. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Black Political Economy ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Sloan Foundation ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Generous Support ◽  
Kerner Commission ◽  
Research And Policy

Revisiting the work of the Kerner Commission after 50 years offers the opportunity to explore two unresolved research and policy issues. First, many of the racial disparities that promoted widespread disorder and violent protests in 1967-1968 remain today. Second, there is the embarrassment of not having any African American researchers on the technical staff examining the causes and consequences of racial disparities in economic outcomes. This special edition of the Review of Black Political Economy ( RBPE), with generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, explores these two themes.

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