Robert D. Cherry (born 1944) is an American academic who is professor emeritus at Brooklyn College, with a Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University received in 1968.
[1] 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.
[2][3] Cherry conducts studies of black and Latino students who graduate with degrees from less competitive colleges in the private sector.
[5] 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 bias in the Holocaust literature.
It was described by Michael C. Steinlauf as "a ray of light amidst the acrimonious and generally uninformed polemics"[8] and by Deborah Lipstadt as "a series of essays that pierce the stereotypes which have obscured historical reality".