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Black Americans share a complicated relationship with the American education system from slavery until now. The history of black people in the United States sheds light on how they have always been treated as "other". This history set the course for disastrous ramifications that…

How we remember, narrate and teach the past is an inherently political and ethical act. This is especially true when teaching about race and racism within the context of United States history. In this dissertation, I ask: how do young people narrate the durability of racial ineq…

This dissertation examines the impact of network effects in two settings—the computer software markets and self-employment decisions by individuals. Although there have been strong developments on the theory of network effects, relatively little empirical work has been done to e…

In this dissertation, I study government responses to crime and racial inequality to provide evidence on roots of economic and social disparities and the effectiveness of policies aimed to address those disparities.

Extensive research has been dedicated to documenting the long history of racial tension and discrimination of African Americans within the U.S. educational system. Much less is known about the strategies that have emerged from school districts and the African American families t…

This dissertation is a comparative analysis of American race riots, within and across historical eras, from Emancipation (1863) to the War on Drugs (1972). I argue that changes in the status of African-American citizenship produced different forms of race rioting. Examining riot…