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American Sociological Association Statement, Guidebook Back Teaching about Race and Racism
Communication
January 24, 2023

American Sociological Association Statement, Guidebook Back Teaching about Race and Racism

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Report Proposes Post-Bacc Programs to Increase Diversity in Academia
Insights
September 28, 2022

Report Proposes Post-Bacc Programs to Increase Diversity in Academia

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Doing Decolonizing 
Business and Management INK
August 4, 2022

Doing Decolonizing 

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Gurminder Bhambra on Three Challenges for Reparatory Social Science
Higher Education Reform
July 14, 2022

Gurminder Bhambra on Three Challenges for Reparatory Social Science

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Why Social Science? Because It Can Help Fight Stereotypes in the World of Science

Why Social Science? Because It Can Help Fight Stereotypes in the World of Science

in a ‘Why Social Science’ post from 2020, the new leader of the National Science Foundation’s director for social and behavioral science discusses an NSF program to get more research money to minority-serving institutions.

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David Williams on ‘The Virus of Racism’ at OBSSR’s Annual Matilda White Riley Event

David Williams on ‘The Virus of Racism’ at OBSSR’s Annual Matilda White Riley Event

Sociologist David R. Williams will address “The Virus of Racism” for the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research annual celebration of the legacy of Matilda White Riley.

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Diversity in the U.S. Government: Let’s Look at the Economists

Diversity in the U.S. Government: Let’s Look at the Economists

A report from the Brookings Institution finds, at least in the case of economists, the U.S. government is roughly at the same place as academe when it comes to diversity.

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Journal Reviewers Can Help Ensure Indigenous Scholars Are Heard

Journal Reviewers Can Help Ensure Indigenous Scholars Are Heard

Volunteer reviewers are one key obstacle – or ally – in seeing scholarship from indigenous authors makes into mainstream academic journals. Here are some tips to remove obstacles.

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To Better Serve Students and Future Workforces, We Must Diversify the Syllabi

To Better Serve Students and Future Workforces, We Must Diversify the Syllabi

Ellen Hutti and Jenine Harris have quantified the extent to which female authors are represented in assigned course readings. In this blog post, they emphasize that more equal exposure to experts with whom they can identify will better serve our students and foster the growth, diversity and potential of this future workforce. They also present one repository currently being built for readings by underrepresented authors that are Black, Indigenous or people of color.

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Why Social Science? To Help Dismantle White Supremacy

Why Social Science? To Help Dismantle White Supremacy

A half-century of increasingly sophisticated research (e.g., on early childhood interventions, residential segregation, and neighborhood effects) and conceptual advances (e.g., critical race theory, intergroup relations, and stereotype threat) have given the country a much deeper understanding of inequality’s causes and consequences.

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Diversity Training and the Future

Diversity Training and the Future

Picture a standard corporate meeting room, participants crowded around a video of multi-racial actors acting out hypothetical office scenarios. They fill out […]

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Risks of Institutional Capture in University Decolonization, And How to Create Meaningful Change

Risks of Institutional Capture in University Decolonization, And How to Create Meaningful Change

As conversations around decolonization in universities are being afforded greater urgency, some key risks of this institutional capture or inertia to wider decolonization efforts are described by Rima Saini.

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