The debate about the quality of High Court judges after the Pistorius trials reflects a different cultural clash in South Africa – one in which incompetence is often associated with black people.
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Rather than simply shutting down these groups, universities need to engage these difficult conversations to support the younger generation to fight together for meaningful social change.
100 years ago, America’s infamous racist group staged a near-takeover of the nation’s film and media industries. Here’s how they did it.
American police kill 100 times more civilians than Finnish police. Racism and gun control are just part of the problem.
Alf Garnett was a blue-collar bigot for the ages. You still don’t have to go far to hear people spout his appalling views even today.
Despite science refuting the existence of different human races, people have used “race” throughout history to divide and denigrate certain people while promoting their claims of superiority.
The quality of everyday life for many European Muslims is deteriorating. It’s time for radical change.
These innocuous-on-the-surface comments and actions take a psychological toll on marginalized groups. Here’s why they’re a part of campus debates on race.
In the next few weeks we may see a resurgence of rhetoric calling for more resources to fight the War on Terror following the Paris attacks. Islamophobia may take deeper root in Europe as a whole.
I taught at Mizzou from 1996 to 2008. Here’s why the events don’t surprise me.
Kitchen Cabinet’s staging of “casual” food preparation with the nation’s most powerful people reproduces a culture of white Australian entitlement to master and consume any and every cultural product.
Because Carson is patently unqualified, his presidential candidacy may be doing more to perpetuate racism than undo it.
Student protests in South Africa, as well as an unrelated clash between lawyers, have offered a chance for the country to hear voices that are usually marginalised.
The choice of Adam Goodes as David Jones ambassador is on the pulse, but the concept of a “Face of” is outdated.
Despite perceptions of a divided and troubled nation, social cohesion in Australia actually improved on most measures in 2015, the latest Scanlon Foundation survey finds.
Reports of an inquiry into allegations that police tried to shield the killers suggest the murder has yet to be fully investigated.
Australian is not Europe, and controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders did not find much of an audience when he last came here in 2013.
Research shows that patient care suffers when minority ethnic healthcare staff are unfairly treated.
When Meryl Streep and the stars of the upcoming film Suffragette donned t-shirts emblazoned with the quote “I’d rather be a rebel than a slave,” they reignited a contentious debate in feminism.
Claudia Rankine, winner of the Forward Prize, has provoked discussions about poetry and race in the US. Why are these conversations not happening in the UK?
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University
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Professor of Indigenous Health; Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalester College
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Associate Professor, Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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Assistant Professor of Argumentation & Advocacy, Emerson College
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Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
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Derek H. Alderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
