William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr.

William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. (born April 19, 1953) is an American economist, professor and social scientist at Duke University. Darity's research spans economic history, development economics, economic psychology, and the history of economic thought, but most of his research is devoted to group-based inequality, especially with respect to race and ethnicity.

His varied research interests have also included the transatlantic slave trade, American Freedmen reparations and the economics of "black" reparations, and social and economic policies that affect inequities by race and ethnicity. For the latter, he has been described as "perhaps the country’s leading scholar on the economics of racial inequality."

Dr. Darity, along with his wife, Kirsten Mullen, wrote a best selling book, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twentieth Century, which highly touted as the blueprint for obtaining reparations in the United States.  His free online reparations quick guide (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346102700_ADOS_Reparationist_Quick_Guide_October_2020_Volume_1_Issue_1) has proven to be a useful resource for those seeking to learn about reparations.