This paper investigates educational attainment and economic performance of ethnic minority immigrants and their children in Britain. Based on the British LFS, we construct two samples: ethnic minority immigrants who are born between 1933 and 1954, and whom we observe between 1978 and 1984; and ethnic minorities born in Britain between 1963 and 1975, and whom we observe between 1998 and 2005. We...

PURPOSE Sexual minorities engage in more risk behaviors at a younger age than heterosexuals and many are subject to minority stress from a young age, which raises questions about the age at which sexual minorities' experience morbidities. Our objective was to estimate the prevalence of health conditions among young, middle age, and older age groups to examine sexual orientation differences whil...

The Nigeria-Biafra War att racted enormous international att ention not just for the brutal events of the period, but also because of how the confl ict was interpreted, especially by foreigners. The ghastly images of victims of the war dominated the international media and roused the world’s conscience. The confl ict took a toll on human lives on both the Igbo and the ethnic minorities in Biafr...

Background and aims: As suggested by the Minorities’ Diminished Return Theory, the associationbetween socioeconomic status and health is weaker for racial and ethnic minorities compared toWhites. The current study compared Blacks and Whites in terms of the association between maritalstatus and physical health.Methods: The State of the State Survey (SOSS) included 881 adu...

The contributions of Jewish American surgeons in the nineteenth and early twentieth century at a time in which prejudice against ethnic and religious minorities was commonplace in the United States are detailed. The contributions of Jewish American surgeons and the positions they attained subsequent to a change in attitude toward religious minorities in the United States are presented as a comp...

In spite of modest gains in the past four decades, the United States has not been able to substantially improve on the pervasive underrepresentation of minorities in postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pathways. We suggest a way to guide a national effort to double the persistence of underrepresented minorities in STEM in the next decade.