Negative social attitudes, such as racism and discrimination, damage the health of those who are targeted by triggering a cascade of aberrant biological responses, including abnormal gene activity. It is not surprising that ...
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Oct 17, 2019
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A new study has found that higher levels of racism in white Americans is associated with having a gun in the home and greater opposition to gun control policies.
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Oct 31, 2013
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Google searches could unveil patterns in Black mortality rates across the US, according to a new University of Maryland study. Researchers found that those areas with greater levels of racism, as indexed by the proportion ...
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Apr 27, 2015
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A new study has found a rise in racial apathy—in other words, not caring about racial inequality—among young white adults.
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Jul 7, 2022
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Racism as a social and scientific concept is reshaped and reborn periodically through the ages and according to a Penn State anthropologist, both medical and scientific researchers need to be careful that the growth of genomics ...
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Feb 14, 2014
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A study by social scientists at The University of Manchester has revealed that Britain's most ethnically diverse neighbourhoods are also the healthiest.
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May 30, 2013
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An African-American man in New York gets on an elevator with a group of white men, one of whom proceeds to tell a joke that includes blacks and monkeys. What happens next? In this case, the black man struggles to keep his ...
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Dec 12, 2016
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A new tool has been developed to formally evaluate the effectiveness of anti-racism programs among Australian youth.
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Apr 27, 2012
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"American racism is alive and well," begins a new journal article led by Steven O. Roberts, a Stanford psychologist, that arrives during a time of heightened attention to racial injustice in the United States.
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Jun 9, 2020
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In America's children, we often see hope for a better future, especially when it comes to reducing racism.
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Sep 17, 2018
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