Gerald D. Jaynes

Gerald D. Jaynes, Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1976, is Professor of African American Studies and Economics. At Yale since 1977, he has served African American Studies as Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, and Chair. He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Study Director for the Committee on the Status of Black Americans for the National Research Council in Washington, D.C, from 1985–89, and head of a research project on “Immigration, Blacks, and Race Relations” sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. His publications include: Branches Without Roots: The Genesis of the Black Working Class (1986); (edited with Robin Williams, Jr.) A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society (1989). His book–in–progress will be entitled Two Evolutions: Black Affluence – Black Poverty: Race, Gender, and Class in 20th Century America. He is an Adjunct Fellow of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.