U. Michigan creates new ‘racial justice’ center to deal with ‘societal challenges’

The University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy will be launching a new Center for Racial Justice which, according to a university press release, will “expand knowledge about the complex intersections between race and public policy.” According to her faculty page, Watkins-Hayes is an “internationally-recognized scholar and expert” whose research deals with the “intersection of inequality, public policy, and institutions, with a special focus on urban poverty and race, class, and gender studies.” — Brown University Sociology Professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve whose article “Criminal Justice through ‘Colorblind’ Lenses” is a “call-to-action” for scholars to make use of critical race theory in sociology, criminal justice, law and punishment research.