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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez

@alvarolaparra.bsky.social

Too economist to be a historian. Too historian to be an economist. More coffee, please.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez@alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 9h ago

Jenny is a great friend and colleague (and this project’s mastermind). Rannon was an outstanding student at my US Econ History class. I’m very happy that the paper on our assignment about racial covenants and systemic racism in the US found a home at the International Review of Economics Education

Researching Racial Covenants: Integrating Archival Research and a Marginal Approach to Antiracism in Introductory US Economic History Jennifer Gnagey!?, ?, Álvaro La Parra-Pérez? , and Rannon Chapman* Acknowledgments: The authors thank Marisa Arreguin, undergraduate research assistant from 2021 to 2022, for her time and thoughtful contributions to this project. We thank Amy Eremionkhale and Aselia Urmanbetova for their helpful feedback. The manuscript also benefited from helpful comments and suggestions from Jadrian Wooten, editor of International Review of Economics Education, and three anonymous reviewers. We also thank the staff at the Weber County Recorder's office for fielding our many questions. This work was supported by an RPG (Research, Scholarship, and Professional Growth) grant from Weber State University and funding from the WU Crossroads Economics Center. Abstract This paper describes an introductory U.S. economic history project that engages students in original archival research while examining the historical legacy of racial discrimination in local housing markets. Students identify racially restrictive covenants in county property records (legal agreements within property deeds prohibiting non-White residents), analyze contemporary neighborhood demographic data, and reflect on the relationship between housing, wealth accumulation, and systemic inequality. We argue that combining our three pedagogical strategies; archival research, authentic undergraduate inquiry, and an intentionally marginal approach to teaching systemic racism creates an engaging and accessible learning experience. Student feedback indicates that the project is meaningful, relevant, and effective in developing research skills while fostering informed discussion of historical and contemporary racial inequality. We provide details on how the project and its essential elements can be applied in different locations, courses, and assignments. Keywords: archival data, teaching, discrimi…
Rahel Freiburghaus@rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 2d ago

“There are certainly individual extreme right politicians, but overall, the AfD is more or less in the political center” Overall, in Sachsen-Anhalt, almost *half of all voters* agree with this statement. Just think about how far the normalization has progressed, 81 years after the end of WWII #ltw

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Jill Hasday@jillhasday.bsky.social · 4d ago

OTD in 1939, Claudette Colvin was born. In 1955, a few months before Rosa Parks, Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated Montgomery bus. The NAACP decided to focus on Parks b/c Colvin (age 15) was “mouthy,” “emotional,” “feisty” & pregnant. #WeTheMen

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Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm.

Chokely Carmichael🥋@stewartcoles.bsky.social · 5d ago

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

Mike Konczal@mtkonczal.bsky.social · 6d ago

BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."

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@undercoverhist.bsky.social · 7d ago

1/n We've just put a new (long) paper online: osf.io/preprints/so... It's a new history of macroeconomics, and it's been one very, very important for me to write It summarizes what historians of macro have been up to in the 10 years, but more importantly...

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Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · 7d ago

We've all asked this, but "the United States" isn't taking these actions. A fairly small group of wealthy (and would-be wealthy), anti-intellectual, racist, and misogynist men (+ groupies, hangers on) is dismantling science. Science = process; it's not there if you can't keep doing it and learning.

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 7d ago

“From Paris, it seems like a mystery. How could the United States, which has set the pace for global science for nearly a century, systematically dismantle its dominant position – and, above all, why?” From here, too, mes amis. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 7d ago

This (from Tom Wood) suggests more than just the typical thermostatic backlash is happening right now. In sixteen months, Trump and Republicans have turned the GOP’s largest party ID advantage this century into a tie for its biggest deficit

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Michael Clemens@mclem.org · last wk.

Goodbye to one of the greats, my advisor Jeff Williamson (1935–2026) Jeff your unstoppable intellect and excitement were contagious. You had faith in me when few did, and gave me everything I have. From the many like me: Our deepest and forever thanks. Your work & your self will be remembered.

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