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Opponents of affirmative action point to stigma as a reason for dismantling the policy, but a new study says that just isn’t true.

People who are against the policy argue that minorities who benefit from it could doubt their own credentials or feel the burden of being treated as if they’re employed or enrolled only because of race?not because they earned it.

But when researchers surveyed 610 students at seven public law schools, they discovered that minorities at affirmative action schools feel just as good about their qualifications and about how others treat them as minorities at non-affirmative-action schools do.
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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.
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Now that the we have our first African-American presidential candidate, Race has become a major subject. Would whites be less prejudiced against blacks if they saw them from the time they were babies? It works that way for pediatricians.

A new study shows that physicians?like society at large?hold subconscious racial attitudes and stereotypes, which may contribute to racial disparities in medical treatment. The pediatricians in the study ALSO showed an implicit preference for whites. However, in this group of doctors?who worked at a large urban medical center?these doctors had LESS “implicit race bias” than physicians in other specialties.

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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 image these students have of themselves as learners.” She set out to discover how their social attitudes may be affecting their achievement, with regard to what?s known as “acting black” and “acting white.”
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