A year after the Supreme Court banned race-based admissions, students’ choices and college policies have affected a view of its impact.
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On Nov. 15, 1960, four Black first graders desegregated New Orleans schools. One of them was Tessie Prevost, who died in July 2024 with the promises of the post-Brown era still unfulfilled.
By kindergarten, white and Asian students are three to four times as likely as Black and Hispanic students to display advanced math skills.
Students from São Tomé and Príncipe must negotiate being both native speakers of Portuguese and Black Africans. And how they speak Portuguese is perceived as an issue.
Racist behaviour in universities manifests itself in nuanced and covert ways.
As they grow up, children learn not to talk about race, but a positive emphasis on diversity is better than teaching colourblindness.
Textbook language can influence thinking. So, what do some textbooks say on issues of race?
Names of applicants will no longer be shown on university admissions forms from 2017. But will it help?
Universities have a long way to go before they become exemplars of ethnic equality and diversity. That’s the thrust of a new report published by race equality think-tank, the Runnymede Trust. As David…
One in three people in Britain describe themselves as being very or a little racially prejudiced, according to a recent British Social Attitudes Survey. How are middle-class black families coping with…
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin
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Lecturer in Psychology of Education, University of Bristol
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Deputy Director, Centre for Research in Race & Education, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Education and Social Justice, University of Birmingham
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Director, Institute for Social and Health Equity, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor of Education, Stockton University
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