Observations on African Americans and other people of color and the significance of "race" in a (purportedly) colorblind world
Sunday, November 6, 2011
CT Scans And Minority Children
From OrthoSuperSite: "African-American and Hispanic children are less likely than Caucasian children to receive a cranial CT scan in an emergency department following minor head trauma, accoridng to a study presented at the 2011 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition."
"Moving Beyond Civil Rights"
Check out Stanford law professor Richard Thompson Ford's recent NYT op-ed and his argument that "[i]f civil rights ideals are to be as relevant in the 21st century as they were in the 20th, we must adapt the tactics of the past to the complexities of the present."
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