Racism and Nativism in American Political Culture -- a collection of curricular unit plans created by teachers in the Yale-New Haven Teachers Insititute.
Race and the Recession: How Inequity Rigged the Economy and How to Change the Rules -- an Applied Research Center report uncovers root causes of long-term racial inequities that fed into the economic crisis
Unequal Opportunity Lenders: Analyzing Racial Disparities in Big Banks' Higher Priced Lending -- a 2009 study showing that "Among high income borrowers in 2006, African Americans were three times as likely as whites to pay higher prices for mortgages -- 32.1% compared to 10.5 %. Hispanics were nearly as likely as African Americans to pay higher prices for their mortgages at 29.1%."
Institutional Racism in the US Health Care System Dayton University study
The Persistence of White Privilege and Institutional Racism in US Policy Documents several areas of non-compliance and makes recommendations for improvement
A Good Credit Score Did Not Protect Latino and Black Borrowers -- 2012 study of mortgages signed during the years 2004-2008 shows that African American and Latino borrowers with high credit scores were three or more times likely to be inappropriately "pushed into" high cost, high risk mortgages than whites with the same credit scores.
Structural Racism and Community Building - The Aspen Institute The Significance of Race to Poverty and Disadvantage
School Segregation on the Rise Despite Growing Diversity Among School-Aged Children Study from Harvard University
WHAT WORKS FOR THE CHILDREN? WHAT WE KNOW AND DON’T KNOW ABOUT BILINGUAL EDUCATION Harvard study. Currently, no national, state, or local strategy exists for comprehensively and adequately addressing the academic needs of children who are learning English.
THE MISUSE OF THE LSAT: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACKS AND OTHER MINORITIES IN LAW SCHOOL ADMISSIONS THE RONALD H. BROWN CENTER FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SYMPOSIUM
Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students -- 2009 Ithaca College study about how in many well-funded suburban schools where white students are doing well, many black and hispanic students, even youth from middle-class families, are falling behind.
Racial Divide Runs Deep in U.S. Schools, Study Finds from 72,000 schools in the U.S. that reveals many racial disparities in U.S. schools, especially disproportionately high suspension and expulsion rates for African American youth.
Big Racial Gap in Suspension of Middle School Students -- a Southern Law Poverty Center 2010 report that documents the racial disparity in school suspension rates, raising serious questions about discipline policies and how they are implemented.
Accountability, Ability and Disability: Gaming the System? -- University of Florida study of the testing system in Florida public schools and describes how the testing system over-identifies students of color and poor students as having disabilities, based on the results of only one test.
Racial Bias Built Into Tests -- National Center for Fair and Open Testing study about a successful case brought against a statewide Texas aptitude test that was found to have racial bias built into its design
The Racial Wealth Divide Project -- research and publications documenting ways in which government policies have contributed to racial inequalities.
Historic Reversals, Accelerating Resegregation, and the Need for New Integration Strategies -- University research on key civil rights and equal opportunity policies that have been neglected or overlooked.
"Stereotype Threat" and Black College Students -- Article by Stanford Professor, Claude Steele, When capable black college students fail to perform as well as their white counterparts, the explanation often has less to do with preparation or ability than with the threat of stereotypes about their capacity to succeed.
Black Students Are Not Culturally Biased Against Academic Achievement Duke University study shows oppositional attitudes are "not learned in the black community, as some have suggested, but are instead constructed in schools under certain conditions, the product of life and experience in school, not the home culture."
Racism and Mental Health: The African American Experience University of Michigan Study on ways racism affects mental health
Fluff and Feathers: Treatment of American Indians in the Literature and the Classroom -- Article by Native American scholar, Cornel Pewewardy, Ph.D., about the need for more culturally responsive teachers of American Indian children
CollegeBoard: Latino Education -- provides concise information about barriers that Latino students face in school across all age groups.