In 2009, for every dollar of wealth the average white household had, black households only had two cents.
Willful ignorance (via Amy Berg)
For African Americans, the last 50 years have been marked by extremely high unemployment occasionally interrupted by periods of merely high unemployment.
Uninsured children by poverty status, age, race and Hispanic origin
In 2007, 8.1 million children under 18 years old were without health insurance. Children in poverty and Hispanic children were more likely to be uninsured.
An African-American child raised in a lower-class family is 37% less likely to become a professional basketball player than is an African-American child raised in a middle- or upper-class family.
Dubrow, J. & Adams, J. (2010). Hoop inequalities: Race, class and family structure background and the odds of playing in the National Basketball Association. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, November 2010.
(Source: web.hbr.org)
Almost one third (29%) of the Indigenous juveniles in custody had been in custody ten or more times.
Both within each decade and across time, White respondents were more likely to see decreases in bias against Blacks as related to increases in bias against Whites—consistent with a zero-sum view of racism among Whites—whereas Blacks were less likely to see the two as linked.
Norton, M. & Sommers, S. (2011). Whites see racism as a zero-sum game that they are now losing. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(3), 215-218.
Black respondents perceived decreases in anti-Black bias over time and relatively nonexistent anti-White bias, but White respondents perceived anti-Black bias as declining even more quickly and anti-White bias as increasing sharply—particularly in recent years. Indeed, we observed a complete reversal over time in White respondents’ views of racism.
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By the 2000s, some 11% of Whites gave anti-White bias the maximum rating on our scale, in comparison with only 2% of Whites who did so for anti-Black bias.
Norton, M. & Sommers, S. (2011). Whites see racism as a zero-sum game that they are now losing. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(3), 215-218.
Estimates based on a meta analysis of 13 studies from 1990-2007.
The indigenous imprisonment rate surged from 1248 for every 100,000 Australian adults in 2000 to 1892 by 2010, marking a 52 per cent increase, an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report has found.
Indigenous people now make up 26 per cent of the prison population despite making up just 2.5 per cent of the Australian population.
In Western Australia and South Australia, indigenous people were 20 times more likely to be jailed. Almost 7600 indigenous Australians were behind bars in June 2010, 91 per cent of them male.
Indigenous prison rates jump by 52 per cent
The health and welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: an overview 2011
Young Indigenous people are about 13 times more likely to be under supervision of the justice system than young non-Indigenous people.
In some black inner-city communities, four of five black youth can expect to be caught up in the criminal justice system during their lifetimes.
The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration of African American men
More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began.
The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration of African American men
American schools are more segregated by race and class today than they were on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, 43 years ago. The average white child in America attends a school that is 77 percent white, and where just 32 percent of the student body lives in poverty. The average black child attends a school that is 59 percent poor but only 29 percent white. The typical Latino kid is similarly segregated; his school is 57 percent poor and 27 percent white.
Overall, a third of all black and Latino children sit every day in classrooms that are 90 to 100 percent black and Latino.
On MLK Day, some thoughts on segregated schools, Arne Duncan, and President Obama
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