The 1968 account of the 1967 race riots, authored by the National Advisory Commission on
Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission, thus the Kerner report), directly called into question …

This address, the Doug Purvis Memorial Lecture presented at the 56th Annual Meetings of
the Canadian Economics Association in June 2022, discusses the evolution of the use of …

This article studies the evolution of African American neighborhoods since the publication of
the groundbreaking Kerner Commission report in 1968. We first examine how black and riot …

Although the 1960s race riots have gone down in history as America's most violent and
destructive ethnic civil disturbances, a consensus on the factors able to explain their …

Litigation in New York State has resulted in the allocation of substantial new funding to limit
indigent defense caseloads and improve representation provided to criminal defendants …

Noncitizens seeking to make sense of US immigration systems encounter a labyrinth of
information and deception. This paper is the first national study of scams targeting …

This article uses newly collected data on communities who received legal services grants
between 1965 and 1975 to evaluate the effectiveness of the federal antirioting program …

In this article the authors challenge those responsible for creating the literature on the 1960s
urban uprisings that ultimately formed the canon. The authors argue that, in researching the …