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The University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work created the Center on Race and Social Problems to confront what W.E.B. Du Bois, in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk, described as “the problem of the twentieth century … the color line," and the Race in America conference was held to bring social work to the front and center of the ...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1969. The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, commonly known as the Moynihan Report, was a 1965 report on black poverty in the United States written by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American scholar serving as Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Lyndon B. Johnson and later to become a US Senator.
Color-blind racism refers to "contemporary racial inequality as the outcome of nonracial dynamics." [5] The types of practices that take place under color blind racism are "subtle, institutional, and apparently nonracial." [5] Those practices are not racially overt in nature such as racism under slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow laws. Instead ...
Academic research indicates that the over-representation of some racial minorities in the criminal justice system can, in part, be explained by socioeconomic factors, such as poverty, exposure to poor neighborhoods, poor access to public education, poor access to early childhood education, and exposure to harmful chemicals (such as lead) and ...
During the 1970s and 80s the scholarly community debated the link between geographical location and wage inequality. Following urban-dominated studies and shifting research based on evolved conceptual and study-driven thinking, sociologists determined that the racial composition of a local population affects racial wage inequality.
Research has extensively documented the differences between the Black and white experience in the US, from wealth and education to incarceration.
Research shows that doctors and scientists of color are significantly underfunded in the medical community, and are less likely than their white colleagues to win research awards from the National Institute of Health (NIH). Since patients of color are often treated by white doctors, miscommunication is common; research shows that many Americans ...
Systemic racism and poverty are to blame for the state of Oklahoma City Public Schools, not “unruly students.” A white teacher taking the time to complain about unruly students in a school ...