Gregory S. Parks

Gregory S. Parks

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Gregory S. Parks is the editor of three books on "Greek"-life: African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision (with Tamara Brown & Clarenda Phillips), Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has just Begun, and Brothers and Sisters: Diversity within College Fraternities and Sororities (with Craig Torbenson). He is also co-editor of Critical Race Realism: Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law ([with Shayne Jones, PhD & Jonathan Cardi, JD and foreword by Richard Delgado] The New Press, 2008). His primary research focus lies at the intersection of social science, race, and law; his secondary research interest is Black Greek-letter organizations.

Dr. Parks earned a BA in Psychology from Howard University, an MS in Forensic Psychology from the City University of New York, and an MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Kentucky. He is a 2008 JD candidate at Cornell University where he is the Acquisitions Editor for the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy and sits on the Moot Court Board. Dr. Parks will be clerking in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals for the 2008-2009 term.

Blog Entries by Gregory S. Parks

A New Race(ism?) -- Unconscious Bias in the '08 Campaign

Posted August 3, 2008 | 07:50 PM (EST)

Since Senator Obama announced his candidacy for president, he has had to walk--as commentators and pundits have noted--a racial tightrope. Race has long been a dynamic on the American political landscape. Conservatives' use of racial code words to galvanize White voters and White voters' resistance to voting for Black candidates...

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Implicit (Unconscious) Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Does Obama Stand a Chance?, Part II

Posted February 5, 2008 | 06:30 PM (EST)

Read Part I here.

Let me make a few points about how the research I discussed in my first blog entry relates to Obama and his run for the presidency:

First, there seems to be a general pervasiveness to Whites' implicit anti-Black/pro-White bias. Though their general bias is...

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Implicit (Unconscious) Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Does Obama Stand a Chance? -- Part I

Posted February 4, 2008 | 11:59 PM (EST)

For the past several months, Jeffrey Rachlinski (Cornell Law School professor) and I have been working on an article about unconscious race & gender bias and the presidential election. I think, maybe wrongly, that this work is pretty interesting.

One of our basic arguments is that Obama has a...

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