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Faculty & Staff

Giants in the Classroom

Giants in the Classroom Twenty influential scholars whose work has inspired others and made a significant impact on the academy Over the past two decades, Black Issues’ writers and editors have featured hundreds, perhaps thousands, of faculty in the magazine’s stories and interviews. Deciding on 20 faculty members whose research, teaching and service set them […]

June 16, 2004

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Racial Stereotypes Influence Readers’ Memories of Crime Stories, Study Finds

Racial Stereotypes Influence Readers’ Memories of Crime Stories, Study FindsUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.If asked to imagine a criminal suspect, certain mental pictures come to mind for most people. According to a recent Penn State study concerning people’s memory of news photographs, images that accentuate African American facial features would be common, particularly if the crime is […]

June 16, 2004

Students

Facing Up to Realities

Facing Up to Realities: Harvard economist investigates the racial achievement gap. As an economist, Dr. Ronald F. Ferguson often applies quantitative analysis to public policy dilemmas, which yields data models and quantitative measures of complex issues. In tackling the racial achievement gap, the Harvard-based social policy expert has added investigation techniques from sociology and psychology […]

February 25, 2004

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Radio, Magazine Advertising Contributes To Racial Inequality, Researchers Say

Radio, Magazine Advertising Contributes To Racial Inequality, Researchers SayUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.Radio and magazine advertising has helped promote racial and ethnic inequality in the United States by limiting minority visibility, exploiting minority consumers and perpetuating stereotypes in the ads themselves, according to two Penn State researchers.“Advertisers regularly discriminate against minority-owned stations and stations with large African […]

December 17, 2003

Health

Study Finds Prostate Cancer Treatment Less Successful for Blacks

Study Finds Prostate Cancer Treatment Less Successful for BlacksCHAPEL HILL, N.C.Black men tend to have poorer overall survival rates than White men after being treated for localized prostate cancer, a new study shows.The findings, published in a November issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, also show the greatest disparity to be among […]

December 17, 2003

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Dismantling the Myth Of a Color-Blind Society

Dismantling the Myth Of a Color-Blind SocietyAfter more than 30 years of work on the psychology of racism and antiracism, I continue to be mystified by how difficult it is for many to see the falsehoods of the color-blind society. In 1997, for example, I participated in a congressional briefing and testified before President Clinton’s […]

November 5, 2003

African-American

Sick and Tired of Health Disparities

Sick and Tired of Health Disparities  A few months ago, I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days with an older sisterfriend, a retired teacher who fills her retired days with meetings, task forces and sorority work. I had always admired my friend for her spunk, her accomplishments and her standard of service. […]

October 22, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Duke Still Struggles With Providing Equitable Environment, Study Finds

Duke Still Struggles With Providing Equitable Environment, Study FindsDURHAM, N.C.A yearlong study of the status of women at Duke University has found that students, faculty, staff and graduates continue to face lingering stereotypes and prejudicial expectations about what they can accomplish.The Women’s Initiative Steering Committee report, released last month, offers an in-depth, and sometimes troubling, […]

October 22, 2003

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Stereotypes Have Profound Effect on Intellectual Test Performance

Stereotypes Have Profound Effect on Intellectual Test Performance NEW HAVEN, Conn.Yale researchers have found that the existence of negative stereotypes about abilities such as intelligence actually enhances the performance of those who do not bear the stereotype.There have been many studies about how pervasive negative stereotypes about racial minorities and women can affect the performance […]

October 8, 2003

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Henry Louis Gates Donates Slave Novel To Yale University

Henry Louis Gates Donates Slave Novel To Yale University NEW HAVEN, Conn. Yale University became home to the first known novel written © Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.com

June 18, 2003

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Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African American Students

May 7, 2003

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Study Examines Role of Stereotypes In Identifying Criminal Suspects

Study Examines Role of Stereotypes In Identifying Criminal Suspects UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.Research by a Penn State media studies expert reveals that memory of crime stories with the suspects’ pictures reflects racial stereotypes, and African Americans are especially likely to be mistakenly identified for perpetrators of violent crimes, an issue being discussed nationally by community and […]

January 29, 2003