Science news articles about 'racism and sexism'

... male and a black female. In effect, a degree of racism and sexism is reproduced by the very people who oppose these societal attitudes. The researchers, in focusing on Barack Obama ...

... , his writing offers plenty of examples of racism and sexism, but these are not the charges being laid against him. So what egregious error was the great Charles ...

Never has a human population been found that has no racial stereotypes. Until now.

Research strongly suggests that people conform to expectations. Perhaps that's why legislation designed to end prejudice has only had limited successBrent Staples was that rare bird in 70s America: a ...

... to write about a past experience of rejection because of racism, sexism or their personalities. They then were asked to rate ... , the women assigned to contemplate racism were more likely than those assigned to contemplate sexism to believe that they had been rejected by others because ...

... of the brain are featured: from the pioneers of brain surgery and neurology, the quacks of phrenology and the attempts to justify racism and sexism in terms of brain size, through ...