by lindaoppenheim | Dec 16, 2017 | Article
Comparing the sentences received by two drug offenders, one white and one black, Herald Tribune reporters Josh Salman, Dak Le, and Michael Braga illustrate the racial inequities in the Florida legal system through policies like drug-free zones and mandatory minimum...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 11, 2016 | Article, Website
This post in Urban Wire: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, the think tank Urban Institute’s blog, defines the basic terms white privilege and structural racism, how they are understood and the impact they have particularly on policies and practices. “In the...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 29, 2015 | Events
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by lindaoppenheim | Aug 17, 2015 | Article
In the New York Times (August 17, 2015), Patricia Cohen reports on findings in a Federal Reserve study that ““White and Asian college grads do much better than their counterparts without college, while college-grad Hispanics and blacks do much worse...