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Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America Open
William Frey is a well-known demographer, with almost four decades of experience studying immigration, internal migrations, and racial composition at different geographic scales in the United States.He is definitely well-positioned to desc…
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The Pitfalls and Promise of Increasing Racial Diversity: Threat, Contact, and Race Relations in the 21st Century Open
A decades-long trend toward greater racial and ethnic diversity in the United States is expected to continue, with White Americans projected to constitute less than 50% of the national population by mid century. The present review integrat…
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United by Faith? Race/Ethnicity, Congregational Diversity, and Explanations of Racial Inequality Open
This study examines the extent to which the racial composition of a congregation moderates explanations for Black/White inequality among White, Black, and Hispanic congregants. Using nationally representative data from General Social Surve…
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How university diversity rationales inform student preferences and outcomes Open
Significance There are numerous reasons why institutions of higher education may choose to embrace diversity. A common rationale sanctioned by the US Supreme Court is that diversity provides compelling educational benefits and is thus inst…
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The Buffering Hypothesis: Growing Diversity and Declining Black-White Segregation in America’s Cities, Suburbs, and Small Towns? Open
The conventional wisdom is that racial diversity promotes positive race relations and reduces racial residential segregation between blacks and whites. We use data from the 1990–2010 decennial censuses and 2007–2011 ACS to test this so-cal…
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Toward a More Expansive Understanding of Family Communication: Considerations for Inclusion of Ethnic-Racial and Global Diversity Open
Building off essays by Gudykunst and Lee (2001) and Turner and West (2003), the purpose of this essay is to emphasize the need to be more inclusive in family communication research in terms of ethnic-racial and global diversity. After disc…
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Racial and ethnic differences in the students’ readiness, identity, perceptions of institutional diversity, and desire to join the environmental workforce Open
There is strong evidence that minority students are interested in environmental careers despite data showing that the percentage of people of color currently employed in environmental organizations is low. This study explores this conundru…
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Majority No More? The Influence of Neighborhood Racial Diversity and Salient National Population Changes on Whites' Perceptions of Racial Discrimination Open
This article examines whether the size of racial minority populations is associated with whites’ perceptions that different racial groups face discrimination. Correlational studies reveal that both the perceived size (studies 1 and 2) and …
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Understanding How Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students May Foster Diversity in the Professorate Open
College and university professors serve as role models and leaders. Unfortunately, in computing fields, only a small fraction of the professorate is women and/or members of minority racial groups. To address this issue, the current researc…
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Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes? Open
How does racial diversity impact institutional outcomes and (in)equality? Discussions about diversity usually focus on how individuals’ identities shape their behavior, but diversity is a group-level characteristic. Scholars must, therefor…
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Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Diversity Among Academic Surgical Leaders in the US Open
Importance Surgical department chairs remain conspicuously nondiverse despite the recognized importance of diverse physician workforces. However, the extent of diversity among non-chair leadership remains underexplored. Objective To evalua…
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Antiracism in Residency: A Multimethod Intervention to Increase Racial Diversity in a Community-Based Residency Program Open
Background and Objectives: In order to address racial health inequity, it is imperative to create diverse physician workforce and leadership. We describe and report on the outcomes of a comprehensive diversity initiative at our residency w…
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Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution Open
This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution and reviews the empirical evidence on the effects of i…
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Hiring Discrimination Under Pressures to Diversify: Gender, Race, and Diversity Commodification across Job Transitions in Software Engineering Open
White, male-dominated professions in the United States are marked with substantial gender and racial inequality in career advancement, yet they often face pressures to increase diversity. In these contexts, are theories of employer biases …
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Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights Open
Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States, during the Second Great Migration.This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movemen…
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Uneven increases in racial diversity of US geoscience undergraduates Open
Over the past 20 years, the proportion of US geoscience undergraduate degree recipients from marginalized racial groups has increased about threefold, more than for graduate degrees. Much of this progress currently is concentrated at relat…
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Technology's Invisible Women: Black Geek Girls in Silicon Valley and the Failure of Diversity Initiatives Open
Black women comprise 1% of the Silicon Valley workforce. Between 2015 and 2018, several major technology firms made “diversity pledges” yet these diversity initiatives have failed to produce any significant increases in the number of Black…
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The Persistence of Racial Cues and Appeals in American Elections Open
This article reviews the literature on the persistence of racial cues and appeals in American elections. I focus on three central themes: racial priming, the influence of the Obama presidential campaigns on racial cues, and racial appeals …
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To accept or not to accept: Level of moral concern impacts on tolerance of Muslim minority practices Open
Living with diversity requires that we sometimes accept outgroup practices that we personally disapprove of (i.e., tolerance). Using an experimental design, we examined Dutch majority group members’ tolerance of controversial practices wit…
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Intergroup contact throughout the lifespan modulates implicit racial biases across perceivers’ racial group Open
Few researchers have investigated how contact across the lifespan influences racial bias and whether diversity of contact is beneficial regardless of the race of the perceiver. This research aims to address these gaps in the literature wit…
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Racial and Ethnic Diversity Among Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgical, and Nonsurgical Residents in the US From 2014 to 2019 Open
This cross-sectional study examines racial and ethnic diversity among obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN), surgical, and nonsurgical residents in the US.
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Racial Experience as an Alternative Operationalization of Race Open
The study of human variation is central to both social and biomedical sciences, but social and biomedical scientists diverge in how variation is theorized and operationalized. Race is especially problematic because it is a cultural concept…
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The Changing Urban Landscape: Interconnections Between Racial/Ethnic Segregation and Exposure in the Study of Race-Specific Violence Over Time Open
Objectives. We investigated how racial/ethnic shifts in the urban landscape influence race-specific violence by considering changes in the size of the Hispanic population, racial/ethnic contact, and racial segregation patterns. Methods. We…
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Doing More With Less: Racial Diversity in Nonprofit Leadership and Organizational Resilience Open
Racial diversity in nonprofit leadership presents a variety of benefits crucial for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, leadership remains predominately white. Practitioner-oriented studies decry racial disparities in nonprofit f…
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‘I’m not racist; my high school was diverse!’ white preservice teachers deploy<i><i>diversity</i></i>in the classroom Open
This study employs ethnographic methods to explore the ways that white American preservice teachers in two different Social Contexts of Education classes conceptualise diversity and use this term to accomplish discursive goals. Data collec…
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No-Majority Communities: Racial Diversity and Change at the Local Level Open
The United States is experiencing a profound increase in racial and ethnic diversity, although its communities are experiencing the trend differently depending on their size and location. Using census data from 1980 to 2010, we focus on a …
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Increasing Racial Diversity in the Teacher Workforce: One University’s Approach Open
The authors would like to thank Anthony Lane for his research assistance, Dr. Antoinette Mitchell for her insightful comments on an early draft of this paper, and the anonymous reviewers and editor for their invaluable feedback that furthe…
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Interest convergence and the maintenance of racial advantage: The case of diversity in higher education Open
One of the major tenets of Critical Race Theory, the interest convergence hypothesis postulates that policies promising improvements for Black Americans are enacted only to the extent they advance White Americans’ interests. We elaborate a…
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Association of Racial and Socioeconomic Diversity With Implicit Bias in Acute Care Surgery Open
17.3%; 95% CI, 13.8%-20.7%),although the upper extremity was the most frequently fractured region overall (52.1%; 95% CI, 48.1%-56.1%);28.7% of patients (95% CI, 23.7%-33.8%)required hospital admission.Discussion | To our knowledge, this s…
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A New Dataset on the Demographics of Canadian Federal Election Candidates Open
This research note reports on a new effort to track candidate diversity in Canadian elections. The dataset covers 4,516 candidates who ran in the 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2019 federal elections and includes novel data on their race, Indigenous…