Robert D. Cherry

Robert D. Cherry or Robert Cherry was a professor at Brooklyn College, with a Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University received in 1968. His main areas of interest include race and gender earnings' disparities in America, issues of poverty, low-income housing, tax reform to benefit working families, domestic relations, and immigration. These and other similar subjects are featured in his latest social policy book, published by NYU Press under the title, Moving Working Families Forward: Third Way Policies That Work.[1][2] Cherry conducts studies of black and Latino students who graduate with degrees from less competitive colleges in the private sector.[1]

Robert D. Cherry
Cover of simultaneous Polish and English edition of Rethinking Poles and Jews titled Polacy i Żydzi by Prof. Robert D. Cherry with Dr Annamaria Orla-Bukowska
OccupationHistorian, author
Notable worksMoving Working Families Forward, Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future

Robert Cherry has written extensively on the subject of discrimination and race,[3] as well as the Holocaust in Poland.

Rethinking Poles and Jews [Polacy i Żydzi]

Cherry is the co-author of Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future published simultaneously in Poland as Polacy i Żydzi – kwestia otwarta (pictured),[4] one of the first books to address the negative assumptions and anti-Polish bias in the Holocaust literature.[5][6] The book, produced in collaboration with Dr Annamaria Orla-Bukowska of Jagiellonian University in Kraków, was published in English as well as in Polish; and described by Michael C. Steinlauf as "a ray of light amidst the acrimonious and generally uninformed polemics", and "a series of essays that pierce the stereotypes which have obscured historical reality" (Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust).[4]

Comments

Some of Cherry's comments on racial issues have aroused controversy. In April 2013, Cherry defended his statements about why black students "do not strive and instead become defeatist" by emailing his gradebook (complete with student names) to every member of the National Economic Association listserv.[7]

In a January 2016 review, Cherry described Ta-Nehisi Coates' book Between the World and Me as "a picture of a white culture driven by an insatiable need to control black bodies." Throughout his review, he repeatedly denied that whites ever sought to control black bodies -- as if slavery never existed in America. [8] In a May 2017 article, Cherry argued that "the feminist movement continues to ignore the interests of the majority of black and Muslim women as a result of its unwillingness to confront the misogynist actions of Muslim and black men." [9] And on October 30, 2018, Cherry published a defense of blackface. [10]

Most recently, on July 29, 2020, Cherry explained that: "Brooklyn College offers a cautionary tale of what happens when community colleges lower their academic standards to increase their graduation rates, particularly of their Black and Latino students."[11]

Books and publications
  • Robert Cherry, and Robert Lerman. Moving Working Families Forward: Third-way Policies That Work. New York University Press, 2011
  • "Kaplan University and the Short-changing of Minority Women". Minding the Campus, Nov. 11, 2010
  • "Sound and Fury: The Bayoumi Uproar". Minding the Campus, Oct. 24, 2010
  • "A Response to Mathur and Hassett's Commentary on Taxes". Spotlight on Poverty, Nov. 23, 2009
  • "The Follow of Academic College for All". Teachers College Record, Aug. 24, 2009
  • "Using Child Care Tax Benefits in New York State". CPA Journal, March: 10-15, 2009
  • Robert Cherry, and Annamaria Orla-Bukowska. Polacy i Zydzi: Kwestia Otwarta. Warsaw: Wiez. Polish edition of Rethinking Poles and Jews, 2009
  • "But It Works: The Bottom Line on Welfare Reform". Commonweal, September, 2008
  • "Welfare Reform: The Untold Story". New Labor Forum 17, Spring: 81-98; modified version in Jewish Currents 62, January–February: 12-18, 2008
  • "Why Welfare Critics Went Astray?" Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 29.2: 207-30, 2008

Conferences, seminars and symposiums
  • "Do (Liberal) Experts Know What Is Best for Community Colleges?" Labor Studies Program, Rutgers University, January 18; School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, September 18, 2008
  • "Rethinking Poles and Jews". East-Central European Institute, Columbia University, February 10, 2008
  • Holocaust Lecture Series, CUNY Graduate Center, November 12, 2008

Notes and references
  1. Brooklyn College Faculty: Robert Cherry. Brooklyn College, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210
  2. Robert Cherry on “The Pleasure Principle: How Jewish Values Shaped Popular Culture”. Graduate Center, City University of New York. 3 February 2012. Accessed 7 March 2012.
  3. Google Books search inauthor:"Robert D. Cherry". Accessed 7 March 2012.
  4. Reviews and Book Description of Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future. Amazon.com Books. Accessed 7 March 2012.
  5. Review of Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future. Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Polish Cultural Institute, New York. March 2012.
  6. Review of Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future. Polonia Portal. Polish American Congress, 3 January 2008.
  7. Robert Cherry. "Darrick Hamilton in the news." National Economic Association. 30 April 2013. Accessed 25 Sept 2013.
  8. Robert Cherry. "Race and Opportunity." National Affairs. Winter 2016. Accessed 9 Dec 2018.
  9. Robert Cherry. "Black and Muslim Women Are Invisible to the Feminist Movement." National Review. 16 May 2017. Accessed 9 Dec 2018.
  10. Robert Cherry. "History of Blackface Not What You Think." Real Clear History. 30 Oct 2018. Accessed 7 Mar 2019.
  11. Robert Cherry. "The Real Crisis in Higher Education." Economics21. 29 July 2020. Accessed 12 Aug 2020.
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