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A team of Tulane University researchers has launched a study to better understand how children are affected by skin and hair-type discrimination as they develop into adulthood.
Researchers from the Tulane School of Social Work and the Department of Psychology in the Tulane School of Science and Engineering are conducting an anonymous online survey asking adults to recall childhood experiences of acceptance or rejection based on their skin tone and hair type.
Marva Lewis, an associate professor of social work and the principal investigator of the study, said that while colorism and hair-type discrimination are pervasive and widely depicted in the media, little research has been done on the socioemotional impact of such experiences on children.
March 26, 2021
Melanie Richardson, right, co-founder and executive director of childcare education nonprofit TrainingGround, was one of more than 50 scholars and practitioners who developed grant proposals as part of Count the Costs Research Weekend, a workshop aimed at helping researchers quantify the effects of racial inequity in the U.S.
Researchers from Tulane and other universities came together in March for a three-day workshop aimed at helping scholars quantify the effects of racial inequity in the United States.
Hosted by the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Tulane’s A. B. Freeman School of Business, Count the Costs Research Weekend brought together scholars from a variety of academic disciplines to develop research proposals that investigate the barriers that BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) experience in our society, the economic impact of those barriers and viable approaches to addressing them. Those who pa