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Children’s books that feature Asian protagonists are rare. Two scholars decided to offer their own in their attempt to reduce racial prejudice.
A recent report found that black women are four times more likely to die while pregnant or just after childbirth, compared with white women.
When a person expresses racial bias, then that bias, conscious or not, is racism.
Skin-shade prejudice can have a lasting impact both on people’s self-confidence and on who they in turn find attractive. Understanding how it works is key to resisting it.
I was part of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry into police race discrimination. The new drama is a reminder of how far we still have to go to tackle institutional racism.
If teachers don’t accept the challenge of proactively educating children about racist language, young people may not understand its hurtful impact. And they may take this ignorance into adulthood.
It’s long been known that Black patrons of bars and restaurants tend to get worse service than white customers. What’s not been well understood is precisely why.
White people are often defensive when they’re called out for these subtle snubs and insults. But researchers have found that microaggressions correlate with racial bias.
As the Black Lives Matter movement has , statues of figures linked to slavery have been removed. Such actions are just symbolic, however. What is at stake is the systemic transformation of the present.
Survey data shows British people continue to hold racist views and that minorities continue to face discrimination when applying for jobs.
In a recent survey, more than three-quarters of white parents of 6- to 11-year-olds said they didn’t talk to their kids very much about racism.
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Wayne State University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield
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Directrice de recherche au CNRS, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po
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Lecturer in Social Justice, King's College London
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham
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Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities, University of Manchester
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Director of the Center for the Science of Social Connection, University of Washington
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Professor of Psychology, Fordham University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
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Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Tulane University
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Lecturer in Sociology, University of Oxford
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Education, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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Director of the Centre for Social Investigation, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Psychology, UMass Lowell
