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Sep 10, 2021 · RAND's James Anderson, Rachel Perera, and Heather Gomez-Bendaña are working to create an interactive tool that illustrates how the effects of bias compound over time. Their aim is to improve understanding of how seemingly small disparities can add up to create significant inequality.
- James M. Anderson
Apr 13, 2021 · A central reason for the backlash, experts say, lies in the country's unwillingness to fully confront its enslavement of Black Americans, acknowledge that the "peculiar...
- Joseph P. Williams
- Senior Editor
Aug 8, 2022 · The discrimination against Black people that is a legacy of enslavement persists and is perpetuated by economic, health, education, law enforcement, and housing, and other policies and practices...
Jun 4, 2020 · A scholar of slavery and issues of race, Patterson talked about the legacy of white supremacist ideology, racism in policing, and the ongoing, widespread discrimination and segregation in American life. He also explained why he hopes that the country can yet heal its racial divide, and sees particular promise in the young. Q&A Orlando Patterson
- Harvardgazette
May 9, 2023 · In the summer of 2020, as American cities echoed with protests following the murder of George Floyd, researchers at RAND decided to take a closer look at America's Black–White wealth gap.
Jun 9, 2020 · The first three factors Roberts and Rizzo reviewed are: categories, which organize people into distinct groups; factions, which trigger ingroup loyalty and intergroup competition; and segregation, which hardens racist perceptions, preferences and beliefs.
Aug 8, 2022 · The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination should recommend the United States government to take immediate, tangible measures to dismantle structural racism in...
