Thu 18 Nov, 2010

Quick Takes on Race, Privilege, and Inequality for Nov. 18, 2010

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“Quick Takes” offers a mix of news, opinion, and research related to race, privilege, and inequality.

Today’s “Quick Takes” includes racial profiling, textbooks with offensive stereotypes, movement on the Goodwin Liu nomination, and our film being screened in the Dominican Republic.

Readers are encouraged to share these stories and to offer their thoughts at the end of the post.

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Mon 23 Feb, 2009

Welfare, unwed mothers, and absent fathers

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This post is about single-parent families and the role of welfare. Like the last post, it was inspired by a comment on an earlier entry, and aims to debunk a few common myths.

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Mon 23 Feb, 2009

Black Americans and crime

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Inspired by a recent exchange of views on another post on this blog, I’d like to offer a few statistics about race and criminal behavior in the U.S.

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Fri 6 Feb, 2009

Stereotypes about blacks and welfare persist

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A new study suggests that even in the aftermath of the welfare reform of the 1990s and the resulting disappearance of welfare as a hot-button political issue tied to race, attitudes of white Americans towards welfare are still heavily influenced by negative stereotypes about blacks.

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