The results show that, after adjusting for differences in family background, black students at any class level are more
likely than their white counterparts to attend a four - year university.
Not only did African - American study participants report more than 60 % more stressful
events than their white counterparts, but each individual experience was also linked to worse cognitive results.
Despite rising college attendance, black students are still less
likely than their white counterparts to attend prestigious schools that may give them connections or a leg up in the career world.
Similarly, studies based on observations from actual classrooms often find that black students with white teachers receive less attention, are praised less, and are scolded more
often than their white counterparts.
Studies show a familiar pattern: middle - income black and Latino students faring
worse than their white counterparts with respect to grades, enrollment in advanced courses, and performance on standardized tests.
The analysis is part of Reveal's ongoing coverage of modern - day redlining in America, which found 61 metro area s, from Jacksonville, Florida to Tacoma, Washington, where people of color were significantly more likely to be denied a conventional home
loan than their white counterparts.
However, those families who do have the material resources associated with middle - class status tend to invest in their children's education at similar or higher
levels than their white counterparts,» says Merolla.
Previous Pew Research Center studies found that Hispanic Christians attend church more
regularly than their white counterparts, and black Protestants are retaining young churchgoers at higher rates than any other group.
James said that while there is a 99 percent survival rate if breast cancer is detected early, black women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast
cancer than their white counterparts and Hispanic women have significantly higher rates of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than either white or black women.
According to the latest study, however, many fetuses of minority mothers may be developing normally, but because of hereditary and environmental factors, they are
smaller than their white counterparts.
The authors suggest that wealthy black parents are less able to transfer wealth to their
kids than their white counterparts, perhaps, due in part to having fewer liquid assets such as stocks, bonds and savings, which can be passed down more easily to the next generation.
African - American women are equally, if not more, likely to experience
infertility than their white counterparts, but they often cope with this traumatic issue in silence and isolation, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Additionally, a smaller proportion of African American men had health insurance, identified as current drinkers and reported heart
disease than their white counterparts, while a larger proportion of African American men in the national sample were physically inactive, obese, and reported fair / poor health, hypertension and diabetes.
The study is one of two NIH - funded projects — the other strips previous applications of all identifying characteristics before subjecting them to a new round of reviews — now underway that were spawned by a 2011 finding that black scientists have a much lower chance of receiving an NIH
grant than their white counterparts.
Blacks are less likely to think their cancer is aggressive and are more worried about the cost than their white counterparts
If you need one more reason to ditch the white variety, think of the added health benefits of sweet potatoes, which are one of the richest sources of beta - carotene (a precursor of vitamin A) plus more potassium and dietary
fiber than their white counterparts.
For a long time, there have always been a number of white women whose preference of partners lies more on the charming black
men than their white counterparts, with a wide range of reasons, most being facts others fictitious but still hold water with many white women.
The United States, after all, elected Barack Obama as its head of state twice and has seen a highly - privileged section of African - Americans — no less
reactionary than their white counterparts — in some of the highest offices of the state (Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Eric Holder, etc.).