Rutherford on Racism, Segregation, Acceptance: American Economics and Black Issues, 1890-1945 @uvic

Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria, Department of Economics, has published Racism, Segregation, Acceptance: American Economics and Black Issues, 1890-1945. Here is the abstract.

The American economics profession has a tortured relationship with the study of issues relating to Black Americans. This paper traces that history from overt racism in the period up to about 1910, the rejection of Du Bois' attempts to work with the American Economic Association, a long period during which Black scholarship on Black issues was simply ignored, to the gradual acceptance of work dealing with Black issues after World War II.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.