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The Obama effect: Researchers cite President's role in reducing racism
Feb 12, 2009 |
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President Obama spurred a dramatic change in the way whites think about African-Americans before he had even set foot in the Oval Office, according to a new study.
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Study reveals surprisingly high tolerance for racism
Jan 08, 2009 |
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White people do not get as upset when confronted with racial prejudice as they think they will, a study by researchers at Yale University, York University, and the University of British Columbia suggests. This indifference ...
Racism not an issue in firing of NBA coaches, study
May 13, 2008 |
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Race is not a factor in the firing of NBA coaches, although white coaches with losing records had somewhat longer tenures before being fired than African-American coaches with more losses than wins, a new study shows.
Xenophobia, for men only
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Very few people fear dandelions. Or even dangerous things - like Hummers. We may object to outsized automobiles on principle, but the mere sight of them doesn't make us tremble and sweat and run away. On the other hand, even ...
Racial discrimination has different mental health effects on Asians, study shows
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May 08, 2008 |
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The first national study of Asians living in the United States shows that for some individuals, strong ties to their ethnicity can guard against the negative effects of racism. For others, strong ties to ethnicity can actually ...
Black gay men, lesbians, have fewer mental disorders than whites
Oct 02, 2007 |
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According to a study conducted at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations, blacks and Latinos do not have more mental disorders than whites.
DNA advances fuel racism fears
Nov 12, 2007 |
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New developments in genetics are advancing medicine, but some scientists and advocates fear they could be misinterpreted as support for racist theories.
Environmental inequality study finds no direct links to segregation, income
Jul 09, 2007 |
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A new study examining two possible factors leading to "environmental racism" finds that although the average black or Hispanic resident of a major U.S. city lives in a more polluted part of town than the average white person, ...
Race and gender determine how politicians speak
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Jan 13, 2009 |
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Race and gender influence the way politicians speak, which is not always to their advantage. Camelia Suleiman from Florida International University and Daniel O'Connell from Georgetown University in the US have come to this ...
Online racial discrimination linked to depression, anxiety in teens
Jan 08, 2009 |
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In the early days of the Internet, some scholars once predicted a lessening of racism and race-based discrimination in online interactions thanks to the anonymity and race-neutral nature of the medium. But according to a ...
Race matters to 3-month-olds, study finds
Feb 14, 2006 |
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You should judge someone not by the color of his skin, civil-rights leader Martin Luther King declared 43 years ago, but by the content of his character. Yet new research suggests that to achieve this ideal, you may have ...
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