SW 4720: Variations in Human Behavior: Racial Discrimination

BROKEN LINK - we're working on finding a new one - Contains MU's student, faculty and staff enrollment by race, and Columbia's and Missouri's populations by race, and also Campus Climate research

This institute's Racial Wealth Audit (TM) tool analyzes the complex relationship between wealth-building and inequality in housing, health, education and more.

Part of a larger article, but contains several statistics on college selectivity & race, on college athletic programs and race, college administrators by race.

Study shows where the most racially segregated schools in the U.S. are, and the effect segregation has on achievemtn.

Study looks at police shootings of civilians by race in counties across the U.S., and by whether the shot person is armed or unarmed.

Book: PS3568.A572 C58 2014 Ellis Library

A long and angry piece, it nonetheless contains much worthwhile information.

Washington Post editorial by Carol Anderson, formerly of the MU History Department.

Article written by former MU professor of history, Carol Anderson for the blog "The Conversation."

Article from November 9, 2015.

MU students' voices describing racist incidents, related to the item posted above, on November 9, 2015. Hosted on Soundcloud.

Editorial on the blog Mashable from a 2009 graduate of the J School

Editorial appearing in Ebony magazine; contains an account of an incident in 2005

Archived Missourian spread (12p.) from 1987

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A Latina MU Journalism graduate talks about what she experienced during her undergraduate years.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

What racism even is in the first place depends on who you ask. This CNN report is good at summing up some strands of the sociological and social psychological research on racism and implicit bias. Ellis Library owns a copy of the book referenced here (call number: E184.A1 B597 2003)