Research & Studies

Study Finds Women and Minority Doctoral Candidates May Face Faculty Discrimination

Prospective doctoral students with Caucasian sounding male names were 26 percent more likely to be granted an interview than candidates with names that indicated they were minorities or women.

Stanford University Research Finds Racial Bias in Whites’ Views on Juvenile Sentencing

The study found that participants who had been told the offender in a violent crime was Black were more likely than other participants to support life in prison without parole for convicted juveniles.

Duke University Economist Finds Blacks Pay a Premium in Housing Market

When all other variables are the same, African Americans on average pay $6,000 more than Whites for a $200,000 house.

Penn Study Finds Racial Disparities in Assistance for Heart Attack Victims

African Americans who have heart attacks are less likely to receive CPR from bystanders than Whites who have heart attacks.

UMass Study Examines How Infants Perceive People Who Look Different

The study showed that infants are better at recognizing facial and emotional expressions of people within groups they interact with the most.

University of Michigan Study Finds Racial Disparity in Adherence to HIV Drug Therapy

The study of patients receiving antiretroviral drug therapy found that only 30 percent of African American patients maintained the optimal adherence to their prescribed schedule.

Study Finds a Narrowing of the Digital Divide

While broadband access to the Internet among Blacks has increased, much of the gain appears to be from an increased use of smartphones by African Americans.

Are Teachers Lavishing Black Students With Too Much Praise?

A Rutgers University study finds that White teachers provided more praise and less criticism if they thought that the student who wrote a poorly written essay was Black or Hispanic.

North Carolina State University Study Finds Racism in the Level of Restaurant Service

The results showed that 38.5 percent of all servers admitted to providing a lower level of service to African American customers at least some of the time.

Is the National African American Spelling Bee a Good Idea?

A new event offers many young African American students the opportunity to compete on a national level in spelling competitions.

Study Finds HBCU Faculty Are More Supportive of Students Than Faculty at Other Schools

Faculty members at historically Black colleges and universities are more likely than their peers at predominately White institutions to engage in "educationally purposeful" activities both in and outside the classroom.

Schott Foundation Report Finds Vast Racial Inequities in New York City Public Schools

Black students are four times as likely as Asian or White students to be enrolled in the poorest performing schools.

Study Finds Dropout Rates for Black Students Are Higher at Charter Schools

Black students at charter schools in Austin, Dallas, and Houston had a dropout rate of 13 percent compared to a drop out rate of 4 percent for Black students in urban public schools.

Duke University Study Finds Racial Disparity in Convictions by All-White Juries

When the jury pool was all White, Black defendants were convicted 81 percent of the time. When the defendant was White, the conviction rate was 66 percent.

University of Michigan Study Finds Racial Disparity in Prescriptions for Antidepressants

For patients with a major depressive disorder, Whites were 1.52 times as likely as Blacks to be prescribed antidepressant drugs.

A Check-Up of Blacks in U.S. Medical Schools

Over the first decade of the 21st century, the Black percentage of all U.S. medical school graduates has declined.

Princeton University Study Examines Link Between Socioeconomic Factors and Life Expectancy

Author Michael Geruso concludes that 80 percent of the life expectancy gap between Black men and White men is due to socioeconomic differences.

Study Finds Students’ Attitudes on Race Change for the Worse During Their College Years

A survey finds that students are less concerned about promoting racial understanding when they are seniors than when they were freshmen.

Black and Minority Students Are Being Squeezed Out of Community Colleges

A new report states, "Hundreds of thousands of prospective students are knocking on the doors of community colleges and are being denied access because the colleges have insufficient capacity to serve them."

How Race Impacts the Healthcare Debate

A new study shows that White Americans have different levels of support of healthcare reform depending on the race of the person they believed offered the proposal.
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