Race and Equity

In an era when the growth in the population of blacks, Latinos and Asians outpaces that of whites nationwide, a new study of who lives where provides insight into the geography of race.

UW political science professor, Christopher Parker, was one of the few to foresee Donald Trump's win–and the likely reasons why. 

Historians of labor, working class to convene at UW

Alexes Harris of UW department of sociology weighs in on a potential fee waiver for indigent and other needy criminal defendants in Los Angeles County.

UW sociology researcher, Tim Thomas, on a migration of historic proportions—African-Americans leaving central Seattle and being pushed south, driven by high rents.

The award recognizes community-building projects like Women Who Rock and American Sabor that creates new forms of scholarship.

The class #BlackLivesMatter in Media and Popular Culture — offered this spring — is one of very few like it in the country.

Professor of sociology, Alexes Harris, leads a team of researchers at nine universities who are exploring the role of monetary sanctions in the criminal justice system. 

Assistant Professor of Art History and Curator of Northwest Native American Art at the Burke Museum, Kathyrn Bunn-Marcuse, offered some choice words on cultural appropriation of native art.

UW professor Quintard Taylor is blowing students’ minds in class and with his website devoted to black history.

The interplay of race and capitalism will be the focus of a year-long investigation by UW scholars thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Why is race so hard to discuss? Ralina Joseph, founding director of the UW’s Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity, talked with KUOW about coded racial language.

NASA began the new year by announcing two new missions to explore asteroids, the oldest parts of our solar system. A recent UW study on STEM fields is referenced.