Robert D. Cherry (born 1944) is an American academic who is professor emeritus at

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, with a

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from

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received in 1968. Before retiring, he was Broeklundian Professor at Brooklyn College.

Academic interests

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

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under the title, ''Moving Working Families Forward: Third Way Policies That Work''. Brooklyn College Faculty: Robert Cherry.
''Brooklyn College'', 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210 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. Cherry conducts studies of black and Latino students who graduate with degrees from less competitive colleges in the private sector. Cherry has written extensively on the subject of discrimination and race,Google Books search inauthor:"Robert D. Cherry".
Accessed 7 March 2012. as well as

the Holocaust in Poland The Holocaust saw the ghettoization, robbery, deportation and mass murder of Jews, alongside other groups under Nazi racial theories, similar racial pretexts in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), occupied Poland by the Nazi Germany. Over th ...

. He is a member of

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''Rethinking Poles and Jews''

Cherry is the co-author of ''Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future'' published simultaneously in Poland as ''Polacy i Żydzi – kwestia otwarta'', one of the first books to address the negative assumptions and

anti-Polish Polonophobia, also referred to as anti-Polonism () or anti-Polish sentiment are terms for negative attitudes, prejudices, and actions against Poles as an ethnic group, Poland as their country, and their culture. These include ethnic prejudic ...

bias in the Holocaust literature.Review of ''Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future''.
Polish Cultural Institute, New York. March 2012.Review of ''Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future''.
Polonia Portal. Polish American Congress, 3 January 2008. The book, produced in collaboration with

Annamaria Orla-Bukowska Annamaria Orla-Bukowska is a social anthropologist at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków; and the Professor/Lecturer at the Center for Social Studies / Graduate School for Social Research of the Polish Academy ...

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, was published in English as well as in Polish. It was described by Michael C. Steinlauf as "a ray of light amidst the acrimonious and generally uninformed polemics" and by

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as "a series of essays that pierce the stereotypes which have obscured historical reality".

Selected works

* Robert Cherry, and Robert Lerman. ''Moving Working Families Forward: Third-way Policies That Work.''

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, 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

. ''Polacy i Zydzi: Kwestia Otwarta.'' Warsaw: ''Wiez.'' Polish edition of ''Rethinking Poles and Jews'', 2009 * "But It Works: The Bottom Line on Welfare Reform". ''

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'', 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 * "Welfare Transformed: Universalizing Family Policies That Work", 2007 * "Discrimination: Its Economic Impact on Blacks, Women, and Jews", 1989

References

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