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March 8, 2021
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Gerald Jaynes
Gerald Jaynes, the newly named A. Whitney Griswold Professor of Economics, African American Studies, and Urban Studies, studies race relations and the economic conditions of African Americans and immigrants. His appointment was effective January 1.
Jaynes is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In the field of economics, he is known for the Jaynes-Hellwig-Glosten Allocation, which describes an equilibrium outcome achieved in markets where trading agents have insufficient information about each other. Jaynes’ book, “Branches Without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South” (1986), revised economists’ and historians’ understanding of the economics of Reconstruction and the origins of sharecropping in the American South. He has also worked as a consultant to federal and local government agencies and served in a
Open Letter of Concern to Governments on Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide Against Uyghurs in China
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January 12, 2021
We, the undersigned human rights and genocide prevention organizations, and individual practitioners, are deeply concerned over mounting evidence that Chinese government policies targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim-majority peoples in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China strongly suggests that crimes against humanity and genocide are taking place.
The international community has the responsibility to respond to these crimes and protect Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples through diplomatic, humanitarian and other peaceful means.
The atrocities being perpetrated are no less egregious if they are found to constitute one international crime or another.
Jan/Feb 2021
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Henry Barnard Hall at 28 Hillhouse Avenue was the first home of the education department in Yale’s Graduate School. It now houses the economics department. View full image
When Yale tested the waters
In March 1958, newspapers around the country carried a surprising wire-service item. A Texas paper gave it the headline “Yale University Planning to Turn Lightly Co-Ed.” A New York State paper went with “Another Male Stronghold Gone as Yale Admits Undergraduate Girls.”
The event that sounded so momentous was, in reality, extremely small-scale and short-lived. But it was the first time Yale College had tipped even a toe into coeducation.