Tag: Race
Minority patients benefit from having minority doctors, but that’s a hard...
Ryan Huerto, University of Michigan and Edwin Lindo, University of Washington
In today’s America, minority patients still have markedly worse health outcomes than white patients....
If the Romance Writers of America can implode over racism, no...
Christine Larson, University of Colorado Boulder
Over the past month, Romance Writers of America, one of the country’s largest writing associations, with over 9,000 members,...
Children of color already make up the majority of kids in...
Rogelio Sáenz, The University of Texas at San Antonio and Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Texas A&M University
Demographers project that whites will become a...
Why support for the death penalty is much higher among white...
Kevin O'Neal Cokley, University of Texas at Austin
Sentencing a person to die is the ultimate punishment. There is no coming back from the permanence...
Was that joke funny or offensive? Who’s telling it matters
Michael Thai, The University of Queensland and Alex Borgella, Fort Lewis College
In September, before the start of its 45th season, “Saturday Night Live” brought...
Why Trump’s stoking of white racial resentment is effective – but...
Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Eric Hoyt, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Many white men say they feel threatened by the increasing presence...
23% of young black women now identify as bisexual
Tristan Bridges, University of California, Santa Barbara and Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College
Since 1972, social scientists have studied the General Social Survey to chart...
When America had an open prison – the story of Kenyon...
Emily Nagisa Keehn, Harvard University and Dana Walters, Harvard University
In a country with mass incarceration, horrific prison conditions and a penal system suffused with...
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
