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This one video shows how racism is real in America – The Washington Post

  Racism is still very much an issue in this country, one that pervades many aspects of life. But not everyone in America fully appreciates that fact. As many studies show, white Americans are often cut off from the realities of racism, living within homogeneous...
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Racial Inequality After Racism

What accounts for the continuity of racial inequality in a postracist America? The fact that an earlier era’s racism was built into the structure of various economic, social, and political institutions, so that even their race-neutral operations today produce...
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Google: Most Racist Places in America

Private searches make it easy to express taboo thoughts Where do America's most racist people live? "The rural Northeast and South," suggests a new study just published in PLOS ONE. The paper introduces a novel but makes-tons-of-sense-when-you-think-about-it method...
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Black Men Are Missing: Tell Us Something We Don’t Know

The New York Times has documented the “disappearance” of black men for the past decades through mass incarceration and death, but brings no solutions to the discussion. The tragic and spiraling plight of black men in American society has reached such epic proportions...
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