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9 Race & Just. 3 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/rcjstc9 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction Race and justice 2019, Vol. 9(l) 3-7 @ The Author(s) 2018 Accountability Matters:K)TeAtos)21 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/2153368718811696 WA ith Results-Based journals.sagepub.com/home/ra Accountability (RBA) OSAGE jeffriAnne Wilder', Marian Amoa2, Randy Nelson3, and Tamara Bertrand-Jones4 Famed civil rights activist and intellectual forefather of American sociology W. E. B. Du Bois (1903/2004) proffered in 1903 that race relations-the color line as he wrote-stood as our nation's most pressing issue. Du Bois's work as the first American scholar of race, one of the first criminologists, and pioneering figure in other subfields of sociological inquiry united the key principles of community- engaged research, public sociology, advocacy, and activism to advance equity for Black Americans (Hancock, 2005; Morris, 2015; Wright, 2016). Indeed, as Morris (2015) highlights, this foundation laid by Du Bois was done so as a Black professor at a historically Black university in the South. Du Bois suggested that eradicating racial inequities within our society requires an acknowledgment of the structural forces shaping institutional disparities. Perhaps, most importantly, it requires accountability. That is, we must develop mutual ownership and responsibility in leading change. Continuing in the tradition of Du Bois, the contributors of this special issue-many of whom are professors at historically Black and Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs)-engage in this key discussion of collaboration and shared accountability within the context of our nation's continued social problem of race relations. Spe- cifically, this issue explores the utility of results-based accountability (RBA; see Friedman, 2005), an action-oriented framework centered on performance-driven results, as a viable strategy in addressing racial inequity. RBA was developed by fiscal policy strategist Mark Friedman and has been applied in a variety of social 'National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA 2Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD, USA Department of justice and Society Studies, Bethune Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA 4 Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA Corresponding Author: JeffriAnne Wilder, National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), University of Colorado Boulder, Campus Box 417 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. Email: jeffrianne.wilder@ncwit.org

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