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If teachers don’t accept the challenge of proactively educating children about racist language, young people may not understand its hurtful impact. And they may take this ignorance into adulthood.
Taxi drivers and Uber drivers perform the same work, but Uber’s categorization as a tech company has contributed to the historical stigma against taxi drivers.
To remove the burden of responsibility, everyone must take over some of the work that diverse communities have been doing to combat prejudice and fear for decades.
Coping with racial stereotypes that permeate STEM culture is like having another full-time job, argues a researcher who studies racism in these fields.
Radio and television were found to be potentially highly influential in promoting positive public attitudes towards immigrants.
Using a common tool for measuring subconscious stereotypes, a scholar assessed how bias against dark skin can influence an inclination to support a charity serving people in low-income countries.
All too often the medical community ‘fat-shames’ patients trying to lose weight, when in fact obesity and overweight are complicated medical issues.
These new findings could help explain why Black students are more likely to be suspended, expelled or otherwise disciplined than other children.
A leading sociologist explains how different dimensions of humanity produce different kinds of inequality - and what that does to the least equal in society.
As the Black Lives Matter movement has , statues of figures linked to slavery have been removed. Such actions are just symbolic, however. What is at stake is the systemic transformation of the present.
Plagues and flu pandemics of the past have led to long-term disadvantages for those affected, and increased prejudice.
Prejudice toward older Americans can impact their physical and emotional health.
What’s in a word? Plenty, when it comes to the choices we use to describe people over 60. Stigma against older people that has been evident during the COVID-19 pandemic shows why it’s time to change.
Fear of strangers extends beyond racism and discrimination against people who look like they might come from another place – it includes people who sound different, too.
An analysis of the expressions used by Donald Trump to designate Covid-19 sheds light on his political calculations and on the evolution of his relationship with China in recent weeks.
When prosecutors introduce lyrics, they’re asking juries to suspend the distinction between author and narrator, reality and fiction, and to read them as literal confessions of guilt.
Becoming friends with classmates from different backgrounds can help people reject negative stereotypes. And teachers are able to help make that happen.
Exotic and sensational depictions of Chinese “wet markets” may prevent a proper and efficient understanding of how viral diseases emerge.
Hispanic Americans make up just 4.3% of executive positions. They are 17% of the labor force, the largest of any racial minority group.
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Instructional Associate Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California
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Spécialiste de la politique américaine, Sciences Po
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Emanuel Ringelblum Professor in Jewish History, University of California, Davis
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Director, BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Research fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor of Clinical Psychology and Applied Science, Director, University of Bath and AWP NHS Trust Centre for Specialist Psychological Treatments of Anxiety and Related Problems (CSPTARP), University of Bath
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Northwestern University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Development, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Associate Professor of the Practice, Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, UCL
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison