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The Unfair Self-Esteem Trap Faced by Minority Students

By Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton — 2012

African Americans internalize, or come to believe, the negative stereotypes directed against them, and thus suffer from low self-esteem. Twenge and Crocker (2002), however, in a large meta-analysis, have shown that African Americans, on the whole, have significantly higher self-esteem relative to White Americans.

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LGBTQ American Indians Report High Levels of Depression and Abuse, Study Finds

“If LGBTQ people get assaulted or beaten up in a hate crime on tribal land, it’s often not prosecuted,” one advocate said.

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Walking in Two Worlds: Canada’s ‘Two-Spirit’ Doctor Guiding Trans Teenagers

Sitting on the floor of a teepee, in a circle of patients, friends and relatives, Doctor James Makokis cried as he remembered his father struggling to accept him when he came out as gay at the age of 17.

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