The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. Angus Kittelman, Kent McIntosh, Maria Reina Santiago-Rosario and David Markowitz Written teacher comments about students can show implicit racial or ethnic…
Corey D. B. Walker – Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, Wake Forest University After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that…
Jeremiah Favara – Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Gonzaga University In his forthcoming book, “Tactical Inclusion: Difference and Vulnerability in U.S. Military Advertising,” Jeremiah Favara, a communication scholar at Gonzaga…
A. Joseph Dial – Disco Network Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Purdue University The film “Air,” which tells the story of Nike’s signing of Michael Jordan, isn’t actually about Michael Jordan at…
Davis W. Houck, Florida State University Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making inappropriate advances toward her in 1955, has died at the age of 88…
Kris Marsh – Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland Title of course: “Why Are We Still Talking About Race?” What prompted the idea for the course? I am a…
Rowhea Elmesky, Associate Professor of Education, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and Olivia Marcucci, Assistant Professor of Education, Johns Hopkins University When a white Texas…
Jessica Pressman – Professor of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University Mermaids have become a cultural phenomenon, and clashes about mermaids and race have spilled out into the…
Julian C. Chambliss – Professor of English, Michigan State University As someone who teaches and writes about Afrofuturism, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” I’m…
Julia Liu – Professor of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine and RaKetra Snipes Physician Assistant in Gastroenterology, Morehouse School of Medicine Clinical trial participants are predominantly white. Despite Black and Hispanic…