Feature Channels: Race and Ethnicity

• share
• favorite_border

A new study has found that African American and Latino children with special health care needs, and those who come from households in which the primary language is not English, are less likely to receive family-centered care than are white children and those from households where English is the primary language. In addition, the study authors found that there were disparities in two critical components of care provided to African American and Latino children and those from households where English is not the primary language: having adequate time with the child's health care provider and receiving care that is sensitive to the family's values and customs. The researchers said that improvements in these components could greatly reduce these disparities for family-centered care.

• share
• favorite_border

When people are under chronic stress, they tend to smoke, drink, use drugs and overeat to help cope with stress. These behaviors trigger a biological cascade that helps prevent depression, but they also contribute to a host of physical problems that eventually contribute to early death.

• share
• favorite_border

The use of “acting white” as a criticism of high-achieving black students is a social phenomenon with deep cultural roots. Acknowledging its power over student achievement is a critical first step for moving forward to improved educational results.

• share
• favorite_border

To eliminate health disparities in the state and extend the impact of health reform, the University of Maryland has recruited a nationally recognized research team to create action programs that improve primary care and expand public health outreach in medically underserved communities. “We’re focused on action, not talk,” says Stephen Thomas.

• share
• favorite_border

A new study of Medicare beneficiaries finds that cost concerns are more likely keep Hispanics away from the pharmacy counter than non-Hispanics.

• share
• favorite_border

The gap between the proportion of black and white Americans with asthma who took an inhaled or oral medicine daily to prevent attacks grew wider between 2003 and 2006.

• share
• favorite_border

When analyzing obesity disparities among women, socioeconomic status and social context may be more important than race.

• share
• favorite_border

Immigrant Latinos display strong parenting practices and raise socially agile children, but these early gains are likely to be eroded by mediocre schools and peer pressure in poor neighborhoods, according to findings published by the American Psychological Association.

• share
• favorite_border

2010 Multi-State Survey of Race & Politics examines what Americans, including tea party supporters, think about race, public policy, national politics and President Obama.

• share
• favorite_border

Black children were one-third more likely than white children to be hospitalized for a ruptured appendix in 2006.

• share
• favorite_border

New findings from epidemiology and observational studies show an increased risk for cancer among Latino populations, but unique demographic characteristics suggest the problem may be worse than currently known.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers at The GW Cancer Institute, with funding from the National Cancer Institute, examined the effect of race and health insurance status on diagnostic and treatment delays over a 5-year period, with initial screenings going back 12 years, and found that race may play a larger role than previously thought when it comes to optimal diagnosis and treatment of black women with breast cancer.

• share
• favorite_border

Black men with chronic pain are more likely to experience the downward spiral of depression, affective distress and disability than white men with chronic pain, according to University of Michigan Health System research. The persistent pain was more severe, but the study suggests other factors for worse outcomes among black men vary from their lower marriage rates - marriage tends to protect men against depression -- to engagement in litigation related to their pain.

• share
• favorite_border

While federal law protects African American men who wear their hair in an Afro to work, University of Iowa law professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig notes that black women do not have the same legal protections for such natural hairstyles as locks, twists or braids.

• share
• favorite_border

Minority children in the U.S. face a pervasive gap in the quality and extent of health care received compared to Caucasians, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics written by a UT Southwestern Medical Center physician.

• share
• favorite_border

African American women are less likely to breastfeed their children, in part due to the preconceived attitudes that women have regarding breastfeeding vs. formula feeding, according to a new study from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center researchers.

• share
• favorite_border

Candid and engaging memoir recounts player's two seasons as “Jackie Robinson in reverse".

• share
• favorite_border

There's not likely to be any MTV footage of Cody Wollitz's spring break, but he and 49 other University of Oregon students are still expecting it to be one to remember. The students, divided into four groups, will leave Saturday for separate community-based, service-learning experiences in rural southeastern Oregon, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.

• share
• favorite_border

Average people have helped to shape the human rights movement, Jean Quataert says in a new book about the development and impact of rights after World War II. "Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics," the latest book by the Binghamton University history professor, was released by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

• share
• favorite_border

The race gap in the commission of violent crime has narrowed substantially, yet persists - with murder arrest rates for African Americans out-distancing those for whites - concludes a new 80-city study. “It seems safe to conclude the gap won't disappear any time soon," says University of Maryland criminologist Gary LaFree.

• share
• favorite_border

Most former residents of Chicago's now-demolished public housing still live in segregated, low-income neighborhoods despite using housing vouchers to subsidize their rents, according to a study by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers.

• share
• favorite_border

USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism releases a new study examining gender oppression in cinematic content and behind the camera.

• share
• favorite_border

In "The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Urban America," Indiana University historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad tells "an unsettling coming-of-age story" about the idea of black criminality.

• share
• favorite_border

African-Americans have long been underrepresented among health care professionals. As of 2005, blacks made up slightly more than 8 percent of first-year medical students in the United States – roughly half of their share of the U.S. population (15.4 percent in 2007), and just 1 percent more than their share of first-year medical students in 1975.

• share
• favorite_border

Workplace equality for women boils down to not only whether women are included in the workforce but on how they are included.

• share
• favorite_border

The video “Painting the Past Alive” follows University of Arkansas art professor John Newman as he paints a mural depicting African American slaves who crossed the river to the Underground Railroad stop in Quindaro, Kan.

• share
• favorite_border

An analysis of Union Army pension applications shows that 20 years after the Civil War ended, an expanding Pension Bureau left most black veterans behind. The shift away from the Bureau's color-blind roots was driven by black veterans' receiving less trust for medical claims that were not easily verified.

• share
• favorite_border

A new report from Indiana University finds that achievement gaps among high ability students from different economic, racial and linguistic backgrounds in the U.S. are large and growing.

• share
• favorite_border

During its Feb. 10 home game, the Atlanta Hawks will honor the Spelman College Spelbots for their civic contributions, accomplishments and leadership.

• share
• favorite_border

A poignant family reunion launches a partnership with a university to uncover the lost African-American heritage in a small Texas town.

• share
• favorite_border

“The role of religion in public life has long been a source of controversy and litigation,” said Melissa Rogers, director of Wake Forest University Divinity School’s Center for Religion and Public Affairs, which produced the document. “We have brought together a diverse group of experts on law and religion to clarify what current law has to say about some of these matters.”

• share
• favorite_border

A new study offers a scathing critique of a U.S. immigration enforcement program that targets migrant workers. The report states that the program, Operation Streamline, violates the civil rights of defendants and diverts resources from fighting border violence: drug smuggling and human trafficking.

• share
• favorite_border

A new study by University of Iowa researchers finds the NFL's Rooney Rule has failed, suggesting the league would do better to focus on recruiting African-Americans into positions as entry-level position coaches if it wants to increase the number of black head coaches.

• share
• favorite_border

When assessing the amount of help someone needs, people's perceptions can be skewed by their racial biases, according to a Kansas State University psychology study.

• share
• favorite_border

Civil rights lawyer and University of Maryland law professor Sherrilyn Ifill argues that "elections" on shows like American Idol influenced young people who entered the electorate during Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and offer lessons for improving the political election process.

• share
• favorite_border

Black men are over-diagnosed with schizophrenia at least five times higher than any other group--a trend that dates back to the 1960s, according to new University of Michigan research.

• share
• favorite_border

“Disney took a calculated risk with ‘The Princess and the Frog’ that could help restore their leadership in the genre,” says Brent Smith, Ph.D., a professor of entertainment marketing at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. “With competition from DreamWorks and other animation houses, this move may have helped Disney regain some luster as a forward-thinking industry innovator.”

• share
• favorite_border

The civil rights leader is to present the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address.

• share
• favorite_border

Dr. James SoRelle, Baylor University professor of history, is available for interviews about King. SoRelle authored an entry about King for the Oxford Companion to Politics of the World.

• share
• favorite_border

Nominations for the 2009 Izzy Award are officially open. The annual award for special achievement in independent media — named after legendary muckraker I. F. “Izzy” Stone — is a project of Ithaca College's Park Center for Independent Media. Last year’s inaugural award was shared by blogger Glenn Greenwald and “Democracy Now!” host/executive producer Amy Goodman.

• share
• favorite_border

For many Michigan Tech students, faculty, engineering and technology are a means to a noble end--a way to make the world a better place for its least advantaged.

• share
• favorite_border

The collective work of Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing faculty is bringing hope, safety, and health to victims of physical, sexual, or emotional violence around the world.

• share
• favorite_border

Experts are available on topics such as race in America and Poverty and socioeconomic disparities.

• share
• favorite_border

The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation presents Baptists’ historical views on the biblical book of Acts.

• share
• favorite_border

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) communication studies Professor Larry Powell, Ph.D., has published a new book, Black Barons of Birmingham, that tells the story of the professional Negro League baseball team whose legendary members included Leroy “Satchel” Paige and Willie Mays.

• share
• favorite_border

The premise is simple: to receive a fair wage for hard work. The fair trade movement, which began shortly after the Cold War, has regained momentum recently. A 2008 Fair Trade Federation Interim Report stated there was a 102 percent growth in U.S. and Canadian sales for Fair Trade products between 2004 and 2006.

• share
• favorite_border

Dr. David T. Beito, professor of history at The University of Alabama, and his wife, Dr. Linda Royster Beito, have published "Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power," a civil rights leader.

• share
• favorite_border

"With President Obama now approaching six months in office, some have suggested that we have gone beyond race as a major dividing line in society. Yet nothing could be further from the truth," says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis.

• share
• favorite_border

The conference, in recognition of the coincidence of the inauguration of the nation's first African-American president and the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the end of Massive Resistance in Virginia, will explore the events of the time and analyze how the commonwealth has evolved since the Massive Resistance era.

• share
• favorite_border

An initial examination of how teachers understand and teach about social justice confirmed that "it is critical that teachers understand social injustice before teaching about social justice," according to University of Arkansas educator Sung Choon Park.