Race & Ethnic Perception May Not be Automatic
For years, psychologists thought we instantly label each other by ethnicity. But one intriguing study in Nature Communication proposes this is far from inevitable, with obvious implications for...
View ArticleRacial Diversity Efforts Ebb for Elite Careers in the US, Analysis Finds
As a partner and chief diversity officer at Thompson & Knight, Pauline Higgins was not afraid to press the issue of hiring minorities at the 126-year-old Texas law firm. But when she left in 2008,...
View ArticleBreaking Medicine’s Color Barrier
On Jan. 7, 1863, just six days after the Emancipation Proclamation authorized African-American men to serve in the Union Army and Navy, Dr. Alexander T. Augusta, a freeman born in Norfolk, Va., wrote...
View ArticleRacist Episodes Continue to Stir Ole Miss Campus
On the campus of the University of Mississippi in the USA, a statue of the university’s first African American student, who enrolled in 1962 amid rioting that left two African Americans dead, stands a...
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Albinism And Whiteness – The Origin of the Caucasian
Albinism is a rare, non-contagious, genetically inherited condition occurring in both genders regardless of ethnicity, in all countries of the world. Both the father and mother must carry the gene for...
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