Race and University Life: Readings for MU Faculty and Staff

2018 MU Dissertation by Veronica A. Newton (viewable only with MU login)

When identical emails are sent from students to professors, expressing interest in the professor’s Ph.D. program and seeking guidance, faculty response rate vary the perceived race and gender of the student. Bias varies by discipline.

By Tiffany Jones and Andrew Howard Nichols of Education Trust. Data that explains why a focus on income alone may not close gaps in opportunity and outcomes for students of color, particularly Black students and families are shared. Strategies are offered to assist leaders and policymakers in design and implementation of race-conscious policies in higher education.

For many people, race does matter, even if they don’t know it. They feel more empathy when they see white skin pierced than black.

This is a study referenced in the journalistic article above.

Newly released white felons experience better job hunting success than young black men with no criminal record.

The Center for Public Integrity analyzed eight years of complaint data — through fiscal 2017 — from the EEOC as well as its state and local counterparts, reviewed hundreds of court cases and interviewed dozens of people who filed complaints, and reached the conclusion that the system is not working to combat workplace discrimination.

Study by Columbia University Law professor Kimberle Crenshaw and colleagues. They examined data from public schools in Boston and New York City, and the results are startling: Girls of color, and especially black girls, are subject to discipline that is harsher and more frequent than that of their white peers, and are six times more likely to be suspended than white girls. The racial disparities in punishment are greater for girls than for boys.

2014 study in Queensland, Australia, showed that bus drivers will let testers perceived as "white" have free bus rides when they enter the bus without fare, but do not allow those perceived as "black" to do the same thing.

2015 study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) details the abandonment of neighborhoods in Baltimore based upon the race and the preferences of lenders for white borrowers and majority white neighborhoods

The Center for Investigative Reporting's yearlong analysis of 31 million records of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act records shows that black and Latino borrowers continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts. Published 2/15/2018

Study published in 1998 (sometimes cited as a 2018 article but this appears to be erroneous) - but still a good summary of post-1965 housing discrimination practices

2018 study describes the ways loan officers at banks and other mortgage lenders find to discriminate against African-American and LatinX borrowers compared with similarly situated white borrowers