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#research: U of T: racial bias may begin in babies at six months
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / April 20, 2017In the first study, published in Developmental Science, Lee showed that six- to nine-month-old babies begin to associate faces from their own race with happy music and those from other races with s...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Protests to end segregation continued well after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 29, 2017thesociologicalcinema:Protests to end segregation continued well after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. (c) on link.
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#vivelafeminism: America is in crisis—and women of color are at war – @msmagazine #resist
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 7, 2017Molly AdamsOne of my closest friends recently discovered she was pregnant. She and her husband had been trying to start a family since college, but were unable to because the women in her family suffe...
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#picturethis: Birmingham Campaign, 1963
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / February 16, 2017thesociologicalcinema: Photos from the Birmingham Campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Soror Mary Church Terrell (September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954)
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / January 6, 2016Soror Mary Church Terrell (September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954), daughter of former slaves, was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She became an activist who led several ...
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#research: women, particularly women of colour, bear costs of mass incarceration
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / September 17, 2015A groundbreaking new report (from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together, and Research Action Design) surveyed former prisoners and their families in 14 states* and found that the tr...
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#womenslives: Ruby Bridges
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womensstories, #quickhits / June 11, 2015Ruby Bridges.Happy 60th birthday to Ruby Bridges! As a six-year-old, Ruby Bridges famously became the first African American child to desegregate an all-whiteelementary school in the South. When the ...
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#todayin: racism: women in prison: racial bias in Australia and the US
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 26, 2015While mass incarceration is a dominant social issue involving men, it is also increasingly affecting women of colour. Black women are three times more likely to be incarcerated than white women, and H...
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#todayin: racism: study: black people over-represented in crime news stories
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 25, 2015According to a new study by Media Matters for America, four New York City television stations consistently reported crimes by black people at a higher rate than their arrest rates. (Chart to the right...
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#research: One third of Britons ‘admit being racially prejudiced
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 28, 2014One third of Britons ‘admit being racially prejudiced’So the percentage of people who admit to being “somewhat” racist hasn’t changed hugely in 30 years (but that’s a fascinating finding in itself – s...
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#research: White Americans Believe They Experience More Racism Than African Americans
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 7, 2014I shall let these findings speak for themselves but I think that the first thing that the respondents need to do is a crash-course on the nature of -ism and -obia and the power dynamics therein and th...
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#research: We need to attract more people of colour, women to STEM fields
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 3, 2013This piece sets itself up as discussing the “five reasons” why we need more women and minorities in STEM fields. As it turns out, it doesn’t explore those reasons in any depth at all...
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#vivelafeminism: Not My Struggle: Motherhood, Feminism, and Women of Color
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 12, 2012Photo courtesy of author (use not necessarily endorsed here). This piece, “I’m Not A ‘Mother First’” by Jessica Valenti, dropped on The Nation a few weeks ago and has ...
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