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Transforming Race: Crisis and Opportunity in the Age of Obama Writer’s Talk to feature Kirwan Transforming Race Conference Speaker Tariq Tarey, project manager for the Somali Documentary Project |
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Kirwan Institute Brown Bag Series |
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April 23 - Hale Center/OMA Authors and Conversation Series The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness |
Our Core Research Areas:
Opportunity Communities / Housing
The Communities of Opportunity model advocates for a fair investment in all of a region’s people and neighborhoods—to improve the life outcomes of all citizens, and to improve the health of entire regions...
Talking About Race
We agree that all too often implicit and explicit race talk has indeed been used to divide and alienate. At the same time, we believe colorblindness, though sometimes urged by people and organizations with the best intentions, is a mistake.
Structural Racism/Racialization
Our work operates on the premise that opportunities exist in a complex web of interdependent factors, and that to alleviate inequities in any single area, we must first consider the entire structure that supports these inequities.
Education
We recognize that public education, like every structure in society that confers benefits to individuals unequally based on race and class, is part of a larger system with lifelong implications for both individual and group-based success.
GIS/Maps
Inequality has a geographic footprint. We have pioneered the use of maps to communicate the history and presence of discriminatory and exclusionary policies that spatially segregate people.
Emerging Research
Social justice issues are never static and new challenges and issues are constantly emerging. In addition to our core research areas, the Institute has several emerging research initiatives that are responsive to new issues that have profound impacts on racial and ethnic groups.
What's New
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Recent Reports
Targeted Universalism and the Jobs Bill: Helping Communities in Crisis Through Targeted Investments (March 2010)
ARRA & the Economic Crisis – One Year Later: Has Stimulus Helped Communities in Crisis? A Special Report from the Kirwan Institute
Race-Recovery Equity Index - A Special Monthly Report from the Kirwan Institute (February 2010)
Fair Credit and Fair Housing in the Wake of the Subprime Lending and Foreclosure Crisis: Findings from the Kirwan Institute Initiative – The Future of Fair Housing
Recent Project Updates
The Future of Fair Housing Project
Connecticut Opportunity Mapping Initiative
International Program Page
Media Coverage - February 2010
Coverages on: State of the Union Address - Obama and Race; The Recovery Act and Race - One Year Later; Transforming Race Conference; More ...
Kirwan Legal Advice Helps Cincinnati Group Target Local Hiring
more info; Cincinnati Enquirer Article, Feb. 23.
Deputy Director Andrew Grant-Thomas was a guest on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher, talking about what the election of the first black President means for the future of the civil rights movement and the lives of ordinary African Americans - Feb. 22.
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander, associate professor of law who holds a joint appointment with the Kirwan Institute, discussed her new book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, on C-Span Feb. 20.
Poverty, Service Delivery and Development
Charisma Acey, an assistant professor of City and Regional Planning in the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture with a joint appointment with the Kirwan Institute presented at Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Baumer Lecture Series Winter/Spring 2010.
Montclair NJ Board of Education Approves Student Assignment Plan Designed by Kirwan
Outside Publications
Tailoring job relief to America's diverse communities on Washington Post - Mar. 2, 2010 NEW!
john powell’s op-ed addressing the racial disparities in unemployment and the recovery
The Housing Crisis: How Did We Get Here? Where Do We Go? on Shelter Force - Fall/Winter 2009
Book review by john powell and Jason Reece
Black frustrations: Obama in the White House creates strange consequences on the Chicago Tribune - Feb. 24
Quotes john powell and references the Kirwan Institute’s work.
Congressional Black Caucus frustrated with jobs legislation on Washinton Post - Feb. 23, 2010
Executive director john powell was quoted about the jobs bill currently before Congress and its impact on marginalized populations, as well as discussion of Congressional Black Caucus activities.