Rodney D. Green, Ph.D.

 

Rodney D. Green has served as a professor of urban economics at Howard University since 1977 and, since 1995, as Founder and Executive Director of the Howard University Center for Urban Progress, a unit designed to strengthen the University’s urban research, program evaluation, community service, and community development agenda at local, federal, and international levels. He also serves as Chair of the Howard University Department of Economics, and co-Principal Investigator of the Ford Foundation-supported Howard University Center on Race and Wealth. He has authored three scholarly books (including a study of racial and economic segregation in public housing) and over 50 journal articles. He has served as Principal Investigator in over 60 externally funded projects with a value of over $30 million. He has actively participated in labor, social justice, and anti-racist movements since 1968, including the modern day campaign against mass incarceration. Dr. Green received his undergraduate degree in politics and economics at Yale University (1970) and his M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in economics at the American University.

Workshop:

Political Economy and Social Justice: the Case of Racist Police Brutality

The eruption of justifiable anger at racist police brutality often fails to dig deeply into the roots of this social dysfunction. This workshop will explore the roots of racist police brutality in the political economic structures of American society