In this Post-Election America lecture, Darrick Hamilton (Director of Milano Doctoral Program) will examine the tenuous relationship between racial divisions amongst the working class and racial coalition building to address their collective worsening economic conditions, which may have related to President Donald Trump’s surprise victory; along with a discussion of rising racial disparity with higher levels of education, which is paradoxical to the neoliberal ideology of hard work and education as an anecdote to inequality.

Darrick Hamilton is the director of the doctoral program in public and urban policy, and jointly appointed as an associate professor of economics and urban policy at The Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy and the Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research at The New School in New York. 

He is a faculty research fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School, the president-elect of the National Economic Association (NEA), an associate director of the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics Program, serving on the Board of Overseers for the General Social Survey (GSS), the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Social Observatories Coordinating Network (SOCN), the National Academies of Sciences standing committee on Future of Major NSF-Funded Social Science Surveys, senior research associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, and co-principal investigator of the National Asset Scorecard in Communities of Color Project (NASCC).

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