Brown Bag Seminar: Why (Black) Boys Fail

Banks' talk is based on a book he is writing by the same title that examines one aspect of the achievement gap: the gender gap among African Americans. Black boys not only fare poorly academically, their life outcomes along almost any dimension are worse than those of other groups of boys or girls.

Biography

Ralph Richard ("Rick") Banks is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at the Stanford Law School, which he joined in 1998. His research addresses race and inequality issues across a variety of domains, from criminal justice to employment to family. He has written and lectured widely in each of these areas and is author of the forthcoming book, Is Marriage for White People? Banks teaches Fourteenth Amendment law, family law, employment discrimination law, and race and the law.

For a full biography, please visit the Stanford Law School web site.