News Stories relating to "race"

For blacks, anyway - The use of "acting white" to scare potentially high-achieving black students away from studying hard and getting high grades is a social phenomenon with deep cultural roots,and acknowledging its power over student achievement is a critical first step for moving forward. Meanwhile, the first study to...

In a recent news anecdote, Jimmy Carter said that opposition to president Obama is centered in deep-seated, unacknowledged racism. On TV, one can see that the protesters are different from what might be expected: It's OLDER people who are carrying signs calling him a "Nazi." When we think about it, most of us are used to seeing young people in...

Despite the fact that we've elected a black president, race is still a problem in the US. We know that humans originated in Africa, so why did some people's skin turn white, anyway?

Scientists used to tell us that people's skins turned lighter when they migrated north and needed more sun exposure in order to get enough vitamin D. Melanin...

We all think we know what race we?and the people we meet?belong to, but that's not always the case. Sometimes we define someone's race by the JOB they do. Now that we have a black president, will that finally change?

Is race defined by appearance, researchers have discovered that a person also be colored by their socioeconomic status. A...

With a black man running for president for the first time, white people?including children as young as 10?may avoid talking about race so as not to appear prejudiced. But that approach often backfires, as blacks tend to view this "colorblind" approach as EVIDENCE of prejudice, especially when race is clearly relevant.

New research has found that gifted black students often underachieve in school because of the stress on them to "act black," which may be one reason for the achievement gap between black and white students in US schools.

Researcher Donna Ford says, "Part of the achievement gap, particularly for gifted black students, is due to the poor...

Chicago sociologist Walter Benn Michaels thinks the racial divide is REALLY based on money?who has it, and who doesn't. He says, "We love race?we love identity?because we don't love class. We love thinking that the differences that divide us are not the differences between those of us who have money and those who don't but are instead the...

Two million people in the US have taken a test that issupposed to reveal whether or not you are prejudiced againstpeople of other races. It's a five-minute test that you takeover the internet. To take this test,clickhere.

Lucy Wilkins writes in bbcnews.com that the test is beingpromoted in the UK as part of the publicity campaign for...

Newswise - Race matters when it comes to interpreting facialexpressions. When whites see the same computer generatedfacial expressions on both whites and blacks, they interpretthe black expressions as looking more hostile.

Psychologist Kurt Hugenberg says such misperceptions mayhelp explain how racial stereotypes are...