Articles tagged with racism

The documentary “More Than a Month” asks: Does Black History Month still inspire reflection, or just Nike sales?

South Africa’s painful journey from white minority domination to democracy, and the roles played by the rest of the world, is chronicled in a five-part documentary airing on PBS.

Ten years after the attacks, a sociologist sizes up the social impacts of post-9/11 anti-Muslim prejudice in the United States.

New research suggests white audiences tend to stay away from movies featuring minorities due to the assumption that they are not the films’ intended audience.

Italian researchers find social conservatives tend to attribute more negative qualities to members of a minority group.

Desegregation of public schools peaked about two decades ago, and no one at the federal level is doing much to reverse the decline.

Looking at the math behind profiling meant to nab terrorists, computer scientist William Press realized it may be less effective than purely random sampling.

White college students exposed to images of a Confederate flag judged a black person more harshly and expressed less willingness to vote for Barack Obama in 2008.

Is a white person more likely to spot a gorilla if he or she been thinking about black people? New research on the pervasiveness of unconscious prejudice suggests the answer is yes.

New research finds unconscious racial bias makes anti-Obama rhetoric seem more persuasive.

New research reveals that people connected to organized religion are more likely to harbor racial prejudice.

New research from Australia finds racists mistakenly tend to believe they’re less prejudiced than their neighbors.

A new analysis finds racial resentment is a major reason behind Americans’ support for harsh sentences for criminals.

New research finds black women are more likely to go unnoticed and unappreciated than black men or whites of either gender.

Trying to take the pulse of how much race matters, a study looking at prejudice and the president finds a persistent residue of racism in how health care reform is viewed.

Authors of two recent books, “Whitopia” and “The Big Sort,” see Americans as disuniting based on politics, race and culture.

The media are belatedly acknowledging a racial subtext to many anti-Obama protests, thanks to what one scholar calls the ‘drip’ factor.

Readers are impressed and distressed by the idea that racism ages blacks before their time.

Seeing an angry face on a black man makes whites more likely to view other African-American males as threatening, a new study finds.

From a new book by William Julius Wilson to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, the primacy of race in the American dialogue hasn’t weakened, but the subject matter has.

Study shows that encounters with perceived racial discrimination caused high levels of stress and depression in highly educated African Americans.

Does the stress of living in a white-dominated society make African Americans get sick and die younger than their white counterparts? Apparently, yes.

Just Communities is dedicated to teaching educators about unintentional racism, which it says is a key contributor to the persistent achievement gap.

Persistent simian stereotypes tagged to blacks are not mere small and unimportant post-racial leftovers of the bad old days, argues a UCLA psychology professor.

Puzzled over health complications more persistent among African Americans than in other Americans, researchers invoke epigenetics.

Because it’s not just the economy, our experts offer some solutions to problems that were under-discussed during the campaign.

Miller-McCune’s experts offer solutions to problems that were under-discussed during the presidential campaign.

For your Labor Day weekend reading pleasure, we have crafted summaries of recent research papers focusing on unions, strikes and the attitudes of workers. Collectively a bargain, they come to you fresh off the Miller-McCune factory floor.

Residential neighborhoods are still the final frontier of desegregation.

A survey on discrimination taken soon after 9/11 reveals a strong belief in equality for all — although
men seem more willing than women to set aside that ideal.