On Amy Wax’s Comments about Black Students

A Penn law professor comments that black students perform poorly. What are we to make of it?

A Penn law professor comments that black students perform poorly. What are we to make of it?

Discussants

Benjamin Shestakofsky is a doctoral student from UC Berkeley, and soon to be faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania.  In 2017, he published “Working Algorithms: Software Automation and the Future of Work” in Work and Occupations.

Joseph Nathan Cohen co-hosts The Annex and directs the Sociocast Project. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, Queens College. He wrote Financial Crisis in American Households: The Basic Expenses That Bankrupt the Middle Class (2017, Praeger) and co-authored Global Capitalism: A Sociological Perspective (2010, Polity). Twitter: @jncohen

Leslie Hinkson co-hosts The Annex. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Her recent book is Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine (2017 University of Minnesota Press).

Gabriel Rossman co-hosts The Annex. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote Climbing the Charts: What Radio Airplay Tells Us about the Diffusion of Innovation (2015, Princeton) Twitter: @GabrielRossman