The Gender Wage Gap Lie By Hanna Rosin, Slate, August 30, 2013. [You know that “women make 77 cents to every man’s dollar” line you’ve heard a hundred times? It’s not true.]
Fears of an Asian Quota in the Ivy League Room for Debate (blog), The New York Times.
Asians: Too Smart for Their Own Good? By CAROLYN CHEN, The New York Times, Published: December 19, 2012. [Elite colleges have implicit quotas for Asian-Americans, just as they once did for Jews. A 2009 study found that white students were three times more likely to be admitted to selective universities than Asians with the same academic record.]
For Asians, School Tests Are Vital Steppingstones By KYLE SPENCER, The New York Times, Published: October 26, 2012. [As Asian students succeed in the admissions test for New York City’s elite public high schools, they point to family motivation, but others say the test discriminates against some students.]
Ugly? You May Have a Case By DANIEL S. HAMERMESH, The New York Times, August 28, 2011. [Beauty pays off in a very big way in people's earnings: "one study showed that an American worker who was among the bottom one-seventh in looks, as assessed by randomly chosen observers, earned 10 to 15 percent less per year than a similar worker whose looks were assessed in the top one-third — a lifetime difference, in a typical case, of about $230,000." Should the unattractive be given legal protection, like racial minorities?]
On College Forms, a Question of Race, or Races, Can Perplex By SUSAN SAULNY and JACQUES STEINBERG, The New York Times,June 13, 2011. [A requirement for universities to collect more information about race and ethnicity has made it easier for students to claim a multiracial identity. We are beginning to see how the well-intentioned race-based affirmative action policies in higher education can force students into a world of corrosive moral compromises.]
March 25, 2003
A Census Study Finds That
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February 21, 2003
Risk of Fatal Stroke Is Greatest for Blacks,
Government Says
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December 12, 2002
What's in a Name?
Perhaps Plenty if You're a Job Seeker
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May 23, 2002
Look Out, the Gurkhas
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The New York Times
May 12, 2002
As Salary Grows, So
Does a Gender Gap
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The New York Times
May 5, 2002
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The New York Times
March 21, 2002
Minorities Get Inferior Care, Even if Insured,
Study Finds
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The New York Times
January 24, 2002
Study Finds a Growing
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The New York Times
August 7, 2001
Tips for Downplaying
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AUG 02, 2001
Texas Travesty
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The New York Times
July 16, 2001
From Alabama's
Past, Capitalism Teamed With Racism to Create Cruel Partnership
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
July 16, 2001
Uncle Martin's
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By DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
June 8, 2001
Study Reports Sharp Racial Divide In Down
Syndrome Life Expectancy
Associated Press
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 5, 2001
Black Captive in a White Culture?
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The New York Times
June 18, 1999
Racial Divide Found in Maternal Mortality
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The New York Times
January 7, 1999
IN AMERICA / By BOB HERBERT
Mr. Lott's 'Big Mistake'
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August 18, 1998
Economy Helps Raise Income of Single Black
Women With Children
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The New York Times
May 13, 1998
Racial Bias Seen in U.S. Housing Loan Program
By BILL DEDMAN
The New York Times
July 4, 1996
Number of Black-White Couples Rising Sharply,
Study Says
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The New York Times