Jennifer Richeson
professor of social psychology with a focus on race, diversity, & social inequality; political junkie; the beach is my happy place
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Keeping It 100 series. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Keeping It 100 consists of three Zoom panel Q&A sessions with BIPOC psychiatry residents at Yale. We hope that by sharing our stories in a real and candid way, it will help you decide whether Yale Psych feels right for you.
Each session is on...
When Shoplifting Is A Felony: Retailers Back Harsher Penalties For Store Theft
A new report by the consumer-interest nonprofit Public Citizen calls out major retailers for donating to trade groups and campaigns supporting harsher shoplifting penalties in at least 18 states.
Thomas W. Mitchell, MacArthur “Genius” Grantee, on Black Land Ownership
What the massive loss of Black-owned land means for Black wealth, community building and civic participation.
How to Live With Dying - The American Scholar
Before I could accept mortality, I had to stop running from it
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Jennifer Richeson
So many lessons in this rich essay. This quote seems so perfect for today, “I get it now: the appropriate response to the absurd is not to run and is not necessarily total despair, but an existential urgency that has all but vanished in our modern day.”
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Advancing Latino/a/x History in the 21st Century: The National Park Service and Beyond
A conversation about documenting, interpreting, teaching, and sharing the diverse histories of Latinos in the United States. Secretary Ken Salazar (Former Se...
Professor Jennifer A. Richeson on The Mythology of Racial Progress - The Westport Library
The Westport Library, in collaboration with TEAM Westport, is proud to welcome Jennifer A. Richeson, Yale University’s Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology and 2006 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, as the inaugural speaker for a new program series...
UC Berkeley is disavowing its eugenic research fund after bioethicist and other faculty call it out
UC Berkeley disavowed a research fund for eugenics it had kept for decades after a campus bioethicist and others protested. But eugenic ideology remains embedded in science today.
We Were Clerks at the Supreme Court. Its Legitimacy Is Now in Question.
Brazen politics in Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation process threatens the court’s standing with the public.
Whose Vote Counts
As America chooses its next president in the midst of a historic pandemic, FRONTLINE investigates whose vote counts — and whose might not.
A Texas regulatory board removed discrimination protections. Critics are fighting back
Earlier this month a Texas regulatory board voted to remove discrimination protections for some seeking social services. The protections had prohibited social workers from turning away clients on the basis of disability, gender identity or sexual...
Schuyler Mansion works to bring clarity to Alexander Hamilton’s role as enslaver
ALBANY — The Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site is working to parse fact from fiction when it comes to Alexander Hamilton’s role as an enslaver. While some historians have made the case that…
In a striking move, State Department plans to label 3 large human rights groups as anti-Semitic - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A State Department statement will claim that Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Oxfam back the boycott Israel movement. The groups deny the claims.
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In a striking move, State Department plans to label 3 large human rights groups as anti-Semitic - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Same-sex marriage legalization associated with reduced implicit and explicit antigay bias
How does the legislation passed by governments influence citizens’ attitudes? We take advantage of the staggered manner in which same-sex marriage legalization occurred in the United States to examine this question with regard to antigay bias. By...
White House chief of staff: 'We are not going to control the pandemic'
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that the US is "not going to control" the coronavirus pandemic, as cases surge across the country and nearly 225,000 Americans have died from the virus.
End Minority Rule
Either we become a truly multiracial democracy or we cease to be a democracy at all.
Yu Emotion Science | Psychological & Brain Sciences | UC Santa Barbara | Yu Emotion Science | Psychological & Brain Sciences | UC Santa Barbara
We chart the moral landscape of individuals and societies to understand how emotions emerge from “upheavals of thought”.
Voting Rights Roundup: Supreme Court poised to upend federalism itself to gut voting protections
Leading Off ● Pennsylvania: The U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on Pennsylvania Republicans' request to stay two state Supreme Court rulings that had sided against Republican requests to restrict voting access and enable voter intimidation,...