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 founding, this presidential address looks at the organization’s past, present, and future to improve the prospects for current and future African American economists. Three recommendations are offered: support The Review of Black Political Economy, the NEA’s journal; help develop regional student chapters; and continue to foster allies that are aligned with the NEA’s mission. The Economics field needs to be better about becoming diverse and inclusive, and the NEA can lead the movement toward those goals.
AjiloreO. (2008). The impact of the earned income tax credit on poverty: Analyzing the dimensions by race and immigration. The Review of Black Political Economy, 35, 117-127.
2.
AjiloreO. (2016). The spillover effect of race on police expenditures: An alternative test of the minority threat hypothesis. The Review of Black Political Economy, 43, 21-34.
3.
AjiloreO.AsisehF. (2018). Ethnic differences in the influence of peers on weight-related behavior. The Review of Black Political Economy, 45, 69-90.
4.
AnanatE.ShiheF.RossS. L. (2018). Race-specific urban wage premia and the Black-White wage gap. Journal of Urban Economics, 108, 141-153.
5.
DarityW. A. (1975). Economic theory and racial economic inequality. The Review of Black Political Economy, 5, 225-248.
6.
DarityW. A.HamiltonD.StewartJ. B. (2015). A tour de force in understanding intergroup inequality: An introduction to stratification economics. The Review of Black Political Economy, 42(1-2), 1-6.
7.
FryerR. G. (2016). An empirical analysis of racial differences in police use of force (Working paper w22399). National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved from https://www.nber.org/papers/w22399
8.
HamiltonD.DarityW.Jr. (2010). Can “baby bonds” eliminate the racial wealth gap in putative post-racial America?The Review of Black Political Economy, 37, 207-216.
