Waverly Duck's research on racism earned a Scholarly Achievement Award

The North Central Sociological Association recognized a Pitt faculty member’s paper on the perpetuation of racism in the United States with the association’s Scholarly Achievement Award.

Waverly Duck and Bentley University faculty member Anne Warfield Rawls co-wrote “‘Fractured Reflections’ of High-Status Black Male Presentations of Self: Nonrecognition of Identity as a ‘Tacit’ Form of Institutional Racism.” Duck is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology within the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.

Published in the journal Sociological Focus, the article says Black men encounter racism even at higher levels of status.