The work of social and behavioral scientists is crucial in helping to dismantle mechanisms of discrimination, oppression, and violence and create a radically improved society. Here you’ll find a range of resources based on social and behavioral science for researchers, instructors, students, policymakers—as well as the general public— to help you educate, inform, research and learn.
And we are committed to growing and learning along with you. If you have any feedback or suggestions on how Sage can support you through these critical conversations, please get in touch.
A collection of research articles on structural racism published in Sage Journals. Other topics include police violence and the Black experience.
Explore, share, shape
Insight from Social Science Space
A collection of articles, podcasts and archived webinars from our community site, Social Science Space.
Teach, talk, learn
Resources for instructors
A list of freely accessible, research-based resources and tools to help you initiate discussions on racism and police brutality with students.
An open letter to staff
What will Sage do?
A message from the Sage and Corwin leadership teams on how we are redoubling our efforts to help end racial injustice.
“ Social and behavioral science researchers and educators have devoted themselves with passion and rigor to analyzing, explaining, and attempting to dismantle the mechanisms of oppression and discrimination that disfigure our society. At Sage, our aim is to enable this crucial work and amplify those expert voices, particularly scholars of color, who need to be heard”
Latest posts on structural racism and police violence
Further resources
Anti-racist social science books and articles
This section of Social Science Space features some of the most important work across social science disciplines that has engaged with the ongoing need to understand, analyze, resist and dismantle the racism that continues to disfigure society and culture across the globe.
Teaching about race and justice in 2021
In this recording, Dr. Lorenzo Boyd, a nationally recognized leader in police-community relations and an authority on urban policing, diversity issues in criminal justice, race and crime, and criminal justice systems, shares strategies for teaching about race and justice across the criminal justice curriculum.
An instructor’s guide to classroom discussions on racism, reform, and redefining justice
This chapter supplement and its companion discussion guide from Sage author and scholar Stephanie A. Jirard explore the current events and issues in policing related to structural racism and police violence.
Webinar: a 12-step program for decolonizing the university:
a conversation with Dr. Rodney Coates
Long-standing calls to uproot structural racism across the world – including in academia – have gained impetus in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. But what does decolonizing the university mean? And how can professors, faculty, students, and academics work to create this change?
Webinar: having difficult conversations about race in the classroom
"Let me make clear,” Stephanie A. Jirard, J.D., began. "Silence on the topic of race with your students is no longer an option”. In a new webinar Jirard shared how to approach this topic with students to facilitate critical thinking, social justice, and change.
Reparations for slavery
Are cash reparations the best way to make amends for slavery?
This CQ Researcher Report explores the background, current situation and next steps
‘From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain’ by Ambalavaner Sivanandan
Ambalavaner Sivanandan’s landmark essay first published in Race & Class in 1981. “Detailing the resistance of black communities to the discrimination of the British state, Sivanandan reminds us throughout that acts of resistance are made necessary by the realities of everyday oppression. The pattern of black and Asian struggles in Britain, writes Sivanandan, ‘was set on the loom of British racism’. And resistance may not always take conventional forms.” (Institute of Race Relations).
Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing
Sage has signed a commitment along with 18 other publishing organizations to set a new standard to ensure a more inclusive and diverse culture within scholarly publishing.
“As a group, we acknowledge that biases exist in scholarly publishing and we commit to scrutinizing our own processes to minimize these. We will pool our resources, expertise and insight to accelerate research culture change”.