Racial profiling data collection (http://www.racialprofilinganalysis.neu.edu/) - The Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University has created an informative site on racial profiling. Contents include reports on efforts to collect racial profiling data, reports on current events related to racial profiling, reports on initiatives aimed at reducing racial profiling, reports on related legislation and case law and more.
Whiteness Studies (http://www.uwm.edu/~gjay/Whiteness/) – What does it mean to study "Whiteness?" "Whiteness Studies attempts to trace the economic and political history behind the invention of "whiteness," to attack the privileges given to so-called "whites," and to analyze the cultural practices (in art, music, literature, and popular media) that create and perpetuate notions of 'whiteness.'"
Find Hidden Bias (http://www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/index.html) - the Southern Poverty Law Center has put together an extensive Web site (Tolerance.org) that includes this series of Implicit Association Tests revealing possible biases towards Arab Muslims, Asian Americans, body image and more. Explore the entire site; a lot of interesting examples and material.
"The Least of My Brothers" (http://poynter.indiana.edu/sas/lb/) - This freely available online short course on research ethics from the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University-Bloomington describes the famous PHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. "From 1932 to 1972, 399 poor black sharecroppers in Macon County, Alabama were denied treatment for syphilis and deceived by physicians of the United States Public Health Service. As part of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, designed to document the natural history of the disease, these men were told that they were being treated for 'bad blood.' In fact, government officials went to extreme lengths to ensure that they received no therapy from any source. As reported by the New York Times on 26 July 1972, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was revealed as 'the longest nontherapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history.'"
"Names, expectations and the Black-White test score gap" (http://bear.cba.ufl.edu/figlio/blacknames1.pdf) - Fascinating study comparing teacher expectations towards siblings whose names varied in the degree to which they were associated with low-socioeconomic status which was usually associated with race. For example, low-socioeconomic names by the author's measure included ones that had certain prefixes (e.g., lo, da), certain suffixes (e.g., isha or ious), included apostrophes (e.g., Da'Quan or Chlo'e), and scored at least 20 points in Scrabble (i.e., were long names with a number of unusual letters, e.g., Jazzmyn).
"Female pols suffer from 'face-ism'" (http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/Aug05/r082205a) - "Successful female politicians face a number of obstacles that don't burden their male peers. One of these, a new University of Michigan study shows, is "face-ism"—a tendency to emphasize women's bodies rather than their faces." Press release of recent research conducted at the Univ. of Michigan -- scroll down page to find a link to an Excel spreadsheet of the data.
