Employers that ignore potential pitfalls could inadvertently intensify office biases.

‘Lots of our political disputes focus on how to slice the pie, but enlarging the pie is half the problem’

Two critical conditions of the year 2020 — the major funding cuts to local nonprofits due to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the major groundswell of support for social justice activism following the killing of George Floyd — provided the impetus for an innovative community outreach effort by the Divided City initiative over the summer. 

Black Anthology, Washington University’s performance organization dedicated to telling Black stories, will unveil its Digital Museum Friday, Dec. 18.

Two recent events at Washington University spotlighted the role of public museums and memorials in initiating and giving context to conversations about remembrance, reconciliation and prevention of violence. PhD candidate Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim reports on the broad themes of the events, including the experience of museum-going and what it means to be an “implicated” subject.

The number of COVID-19 diagnoses grows day by day, but the unequal rate of infection among Black and Latinx people and white people remains constant. Looking back at the AIDS epidemic, René Esparza, assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, finds a striking similarity in the U.S.’s historical treatment of viruses that disproportionally affect minority communities.

The participatory art project HT94 provides a space for reflection on the ongoing crisis at the border.

While the Department of Sociology’s growth over the past five years has been immense, Wingfield believes that the department is just getting started. “Our hope is to continue growing, remain a department where faculty continue to do excellent research and teaching, and to stay a place where undergraduate and graduate students can thrive.”

Professor Jake Rosenfeld on how millennials are changing the social norm against discussing wages and salaries in the work place.

The Society for the Study of Social Problems presents the C. Wright Mills Award annually to the author of a new book that critically addresses an issue of contemporary public importance. Wingfield's award-winning book addresses "racial outsourcing" in the health care industry.

Check out our postdoc John Kuk and his colleagues Zoltan Hajnal and Nazita lajevardi on their analysis on voters disenfranchisement

This SciLine's media briefing focused on health effects and disparities resulting from: racism within the U.S. health care system, the racial segregation of neighborhoods, and racism-related chronic stress