Black and White are racial terms. They are a social construction and not a biological classification. We use them socially. Whether or not that’s OK, I think it’s better to capitalize them at least.
Posts Tagged ‘black women’
Black is not a color
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged african american, black women, demography, race, sociology on April 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A little shecovery
Posted in In the news, tagged black women, employment, recession on January 9, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A coupla quick graphs on the employment numbers.
Recent reads: Brazil, China, blogging and the Black middle class
Posted in Me @ work, tagged black women, blog, children, china, demography, fertility, gender, toys on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A rundown of some great recent reading.
Employment unequal
Posted in In the news, tagged black women, discrimination, emp, race, recession, socimages on August 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Employment is flat to down, with increasing inequality.
Birthweight and infant mortality inequality
Posted in Me @ work, Research reports, tagged black women, children, health, inequality, motherhood on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The major problem driving the infant-mortality gap is not care of newborn infants itself, but rather the long-term health of Black women.
Gloria and her money, analyticized
Posted in Me @ work, tagged black women, graphics, media on May 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Dragging us further from signal, toward noise.
Quick update: Black-White women’s employment gap
Posted in In the news, tagged black women, employment, recession on May 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The new gap lives on.
Weathering health inequality
Posted in Research reports, tagged black women, health, mortality on November 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Improve health problems at early ages rather than (or in addition to) trying to delay first births.
More marriage predictions gone awry
Posted in Me @ work, tagged black women, demography, marriage on November 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
If my calculations are correct, the alarm 1990s volume was 50% too loud.
Why aren’t marriages getting happier?
Posted in Me @ work, Research reports, tagged black women, marriage on November 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A half-full/empty situation.
Philip N. Cohen
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- Saw thousands of bikers at Rolling Thunder in DC today. Looked in vain for one with a woman driving the man. http://t.co/IHKdE789 22 hours ago
- #Romney: "if every one of our small businesses added just two employees..." Me: ...that would triple the size of the modal small biz. 2 days ago
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