Amaka Okechukwu discusses her new book about the historical politics of affirmative action and open admissions in college admissions.
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We interview Cristobal Young about his work on whether the wealthy relocate in response to tax changes.
We discuss the College Cheating Scandal, in which several celebrities and wealthy people were caught using bribery and cheating to get their children into prestigious schools.
This week, The Annex sits down with Daniel Laurison of Swarthmore. Along with his co-author Sam Friedman, wrote The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to be Privileged (Policy Press). We also discuss the Oscars, mesearch and autoethnography, and scholars' obligation to teach the public about science's limits.
This week, The Annex sits down with Brian McCabe of Georgetown University. Brian is the author of No Place Like Home: Wealth Community and the Politics of Homeownership (2016, Oxford University Press). We discuss homeownership policy in the United States. Also, researcher misconduct charges were levied against one author of the Sokal Squared hoax, and how to improve the ASA […]
Joe and Gabriel interview Rebecca Raby (Brock University). Rebecca and her colleague Shauna Pomerantz recently published Smart Girls: Success, School, and the Myth of Post-Feminism (2017, University of California Press). We interview Rebecca about her research on youth, gender, education, and inequality.
