SAGE’s research on structural racism and police violence is being recognized with APEX award

SAGE’s award-winning Structural Racism and Police Violence research collection to combat injustice is a resource for students, educators, researchers, and policymakers alike.

With each passing year, society becomes more aware of global injustices. Thanks to the internet and social media, people of all ages within and beyond academia are becoming socially mobilized and eager to learn more about the roots of our social ills.

SAGE’s Structural Racism and Police Violence microsite is a resource that can help students, educators, researchers, and policymakers further develop their understanding of systemic racism and police brutality. The APEX Awards for Publication recently awarded the microsite with an Award of Excellence based upon its graphic design, editorial content, and overall communication success. 

Believing that the social and behavioral sciences can help contextualize and disrupt such structural problems, SAGE built the freely accessible research collection to highlight findings on racism and police violence. SAGE launched the microsite in response to the global protests against police brutality and systemic racism during the summer of 2020, hoping it would help answer questions concerning why and how racial inequalities remain prevalent, and what actions are needed to build towards an equitable future.

Since launching, the site has accrued 28,000 pageviews and a subsequent 11,600 article downloads. The microsite aims to help educators discuss impacts of systemic racism with their students, support researchers in future scholarship, and inform policymakers in their fight to implement sweeping structural reforms. Race and policing, healthcare and inequality, social activism, and frameworks for an improved future are all covered in the collection.

This recognition from APEX enables more individuals to be made aware of how social and behavioral sciences can make such critical findings possible, and how society can best combat destructive racism.