Women and people of color remain invisible to many people in Britain and the U.S. as people pick white men as their heroes instead, a study shows. Their achievements are often forgotten or not recognized when people are choosing ...
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Jan 24, 2024
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College students who identify as part of minoritized groups have more negative perceptions about how their peers might react if they were to disclose experiences of sexual violence, a recent Oregon State University study ...
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Oct 24, 2023
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It may seem intuitive that teams made up of people with a diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds lead to more effective and inclusive outcomes. But the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to curb affirmative ...
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Aug 16, 2023
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Although Black History Month wasn't established until the 1970s, Black teachers in the segregated Jim Crow South, particularly women, had been teaching Black history for decades prior, and were vital to its accuracy and preservation.
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Feb 24, 2023
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When Zimife Umeh, a new assistant professor of sociology at the George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), first embarked on researching the experiences of incarcerated mothers, she worried ...
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Oct 12, 2022
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Ronald Hall is a professor in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. He has written over 200 books/articles/monographs, etc., on colorism—discrimination on the basis of skin tone, often among the same ethnic ...
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May 18, 2022
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The more an academic discipline is perceived to require raw talent or "brilliance" for success, the more both women and early-career academics feel professionally inadequate—like "impostors"—finds a new study of U.S. ...
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Aug 5, 2021
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More than half of all African American women in the United States report having at least one family member who is incarcerated, causing higher levels of depressive symptoms and psychological distress than previously understood.
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Sep 3, 2020
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Experiences of racism are associated with lower subjective cognitive function (SCF) among African-American women.
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Jul 21, 2020
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Confronting a white person who makes a racist or sexist statement can make them reflect on their words and avoid making biased statements about race or gender in the future, Rutgers researchers find.
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Jun 25, 2020
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