Tag: Race
Black and Latino essential workers experience greater safety concerns than their...
Jasmine Kerrissey, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Clare Hammonds, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Research Brief is a...
Changing the Federal Reserve mandate could provide a down payment to...
William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University
The job of slicing up the economic pie in the U.S. has traditionally fallen to Congress, with the Federal...
Telework mostly benefits white, affluent Americans – and offers few climate...
Cutler J Cleveland, Boston University; Alicia Zhang, Boston University; Jacqueline Ashmore, Boston University, and Taylor Dudley, Boston University
Back in in 2018 – in the...
How popular culture hobbles protest movements
Chauncey Maher, Dickinson College
In response to the anti-racism protests that have erupted across the U.S., many Americans are saying they agree with the goals...
How did ‘white’ become a metaphor for all things good?
Aradhna Krishna, University of Michigan
Shortly after George Floyd’s death, one of my friends texted me that Floyd wasn’t necessarily a bad person, but, pointing...
How ‘Karen’ went from a popular baby name to a stand-in...
Robin Queen, University of Michigan
When I read about Amy Cooper, the woman in Central Park who called the police on a black birder because...
Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape...
Danielle K. Kilgo, Indiana University
A teenager held her phone steady enough
to capture the final moments of George Perry Floyd’s life as he apparently suffocated...
The unintended consequences of marijuana decriminalization
Nikolay Anguelov, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
America’s decades-long war on drugs disproportionately harmed minorities. Now, it seems that decriminalization of marijuana hasn’t leveled the playing...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
