The release of ‘American Fiction’ presents an opportunity to talk about race, power and white supremacy: What version of Blackness is acceptable or saleable within American culture?
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In this episode, Vinita sits down with two experts to break down the many layers — and Black stereotypes — in the much anticipated new film, ‘American Fiction.’
Acronyms like BIPOC can highlight the similar ways racism impacts different people. However, they can also gloss over the distinct experiences of communities.
This year, there are more than 400 active anti-trans bills across the U.S. What do things look like in Canada? Are we a safe haven or are we following those same trends?
New research found that Black and Hispanic people tended to give banks a pass for poor customer service.
The lack of visibility by Black researchers and physicians in scientific literature perpetuates systemic racism in medicine.
While all groups experienced increased housing vulnerability after the pandemic hit, only people of Asian descent continued to see their situations worsen in 2021 as the US spent trillions trying to soften the impact.
Many comics are now more representative of the people who actually read them but it’s clear there’s room for more diversity when it comes to our superheroes.
Disney’s new Black mermaid has been called ‘inauthentic’ – but fairy tales have always been repurposed across cultures. And Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid was different from Disney’s.
In the middle of the tremendous outpouring of love and grief for the Queen and the monarchy she represented, not everyone wants to take a moment of silence. And there are a lot of reasons why.
Students of color graduate at higher rates when they go to colleges where there are larger portions of the student body and faculty who are also of color.
The Brown v. Board of Education case, which resulted in the Supreme Court outlawing school segregation, originally started in Clarendon County, South Carolina.
Students with disabilities do better when they remain in general education classes, but systemic bias often leads them to be placed in separate classrooms, a special education researcher writes.
People may be more willing to boycott a retailer over an act of injustice that takes place at the store if the source of the story was Black – even if the incident happened to a white person.
College presidents worked both at the forefront and behind the scenes in fighting for African Americans’ civil rights in the 1960s.
A trauma-informed approach to education can help educators acknowledge and address the adversities faced by Black and Indigenous students.
Poetry can unite people when all seems lost. The Conversation US has pulled together four articles from its archives that speak on the power of poetry.
Our food systems are failing to feed all of us.
In this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we pick apart what is broken and ways to fix it with two women who battle food injustice.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the problem of food insecurity for many people, especially racialized and Indigenous households.
Stories about alternative worlds can be a powerful way of critiquing the problems of our own world.
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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President, Food Secure Canada
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Associate Dean (Arts and Humanities), Bucknell University
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Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education, University of Iowa
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Assistant Professor of Humanities, McMaster University
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Professor of Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Iowa State University
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Associate professor, McGill University
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Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Manitoba
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PhD Candidate, Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Assistant professor, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
