Racism: The Impact on Health

Study Finds High Rates of Illness Among Washington DC Black Women

In the UK, Gypsies and Travellers experience racism, discrimination and inequality, so I was happy there were no further jokes about them in the latest season of Top Gear.

Finding a Scapegoat When Epidemics Strike: from Jews and the Black Death to ( Read more... )

Labor acts to close Aboriginal health gap, 3 July 2009

Australian of the Year Professor Mick Dodson criticises the government's indigenous health targets: "The shortest timeline to achieve any one of these targets is a decade. And several of the targets are not about achieving equality, but merely a 50 per cent reduction of the present levels of ( Read more... )

Lemme start with some good news. Tolerance wins by a head and shoulders: study shows that "Australians are overwhelmingly accepting of Muslim women who wear a scarf or hijab". (I think this refers to a chapter in the new book Beyond the Hijab Debate: New Conversations on Gender, Race and Religion.)

Millions allocated to protect pupils from race- ( Read more... )