Charter Schools: What Would Dr. King Say?
Responding to a defense of charter schools’ record on integration, education professor and blogger James Horn argues that where there’s smoke there is indeed fire.
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Study Finds Racial Pay Disparities Among Nurses
Researchers use statistical regression analysis to spot discrimination in an unexpected profession.
The Limits of Empathy for Outsiders
Two new studies — one sociological, another using brain scans — document and help explain our lack of empathy for perceived outsiders.
Shades of Candidates to Come
How can the American electorate be post-racial when even the shading of skin affects decision-making?
The Invisible Woman of Color
New research finds black women are more likely to go unnoticed and unappreciated than black men or whites of either gender.
I’d Like the Same Plan Better If It Was Bill Clinton’s
Trying to take the pulse of how much race matters, a study looking at prejudice and the president finds a persistent residue of racism in how health care reform is viewed.
When Black and White Aren’t Black and White
Two psychologists show that our concepts of morality and sin are mentally associated with lightness and darkness, with potentially troubling implications for criminal justice.
That Falling Tide Does Not Recede Evenly
We predicted that Hispanics would feel more pain jobwise this recession than some other demographic groups. We were right.
Video Games Are a White Man’s World
A 'virtual census' finds that, in the fictional universe of video games, white males still rule.
New Conversations on Race
From a new book by William Julius Wilson to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, the primacy of race in the American dialogue hasn't weakened, but the subject matter has.