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A review of Matthew Engelke’s How to Think Like an Anthropologist.
School diversity is less widespread in central and northern states
America’s racial wealth disparity is entrenched, with devastating effects. What if we got rid of it?
The development of implicit biases starts at a young age and then they get reinforced over time.
Do you know the implicit biases you have? Here are some ways to find them out.
Immigrants add way more to the American economy than they take.
Have you ever noticed how almost all robots are racialized as white?
Autism is a widely misunderstood condition surrounded by falsehoods, half-truths, and cultural assumptions.
It isn’t surprising, but what’s behind the straight-white-male hegemony?
Discrimination is up across the board.
Among women, bisexuality is statistically on the rise.
Psychologists looked at how liberals and conservatives react after learning about “white privilege”.
Don’t denigrate immigrants, says Jared Diamond. You are one.
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Landlords aren’t the ones getting rich off of renting properties; slumlords are.
Some are worried this represents an Orwellian move. At heart, it’s not.
Two maps show two very different takes on the huge discrepancies in U.S. life expectancy
The researchers call it a “competence downshift.”
Access to trauma care is a race issue. It shouldn’t be.
Inequality and racism are connected, but maybe not as much as you think.
Our culture has its own mistaken assumption: that the individual is an autonomous human intellect independent from the social environment.
In his final years, Martin Luther King, Jr. become increasingly focused on the problem of poverty in America.
None of these steps are quick or easy, but practice and online courses can help.
The countdown continues! This is the #2 most popular video of 2018. Can the left wing grow from this critique?
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A new study out of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville traces a disturbing correlation.
American society is in trouble if we let fundamental disagreements cancel entire relationships.
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Dialogue and an open mind can go a lot further than angry rhetoric.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas shares the books that shaped his life.
Unlikely allies can solve society’s most complex problems.
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American geneticists take a stand against the misuse of their science by racists.
The lawsuit could someday reach the Supreme Court and change the way the nation’s universities approach college admissions practices.