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Racism's Hidden Toll

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For U.S. Census, Documenting Multiracial Heritage Is Harder Than It Sounds; Census data provide clearest picture of race in America—but even that is incomplete

A Closer Look at How the US Enforces Drinking Laws

Climate and Social Justice: Results of the IT Revolution in Bangalore

Bridges of Memory: Tying the Past to the Present

A Story of Perseverance

A Statement from the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota on the Involvement of Our Former Students in the Killing of George Floyd

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