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A substantial minority of Chinese-Australians have experienced a backlash from the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 deterioration in bilateral relations, according to a survey from the Lowy Institute.
Wearing face masks hides our facial expressions and affects our social interactions. They make it harder for us to read facial expressions and can contribute to racist perceptions.
Mapping is one way African Americans fight for equality and help each other navigate a racially hostile landscape.
A researcher recreates a famous 1940s doll experiment to probe how Black preschool children view race and themselves – and finds not much has changed.
Plans are being adopted and resolutions made, but moving forward means facing difficult truths about the past.
Fair skin as a beauty ideal underpins the global bleach cream industry – valued at $8.6 billion. There is a nascent backlash against the practice, which endangers health and can perpetuate racism.
Few middle-class Americans undergoing Chapter 13 bankruptcy blame the government. They portray themselves as hardworking victims and resent others for taking more than their fair share.
The Lou Marsh Trophy was named after the famous sports journalist and editor. But Marsh’s sports coverage of racialized athletes was problematic — should this prompt a renaming of the award?
Carl James and Kulsoom Anwer discuss the injustices and inequalities in the Canadian education system.
Many societies in Africa still draw heavily on their traditional beliefs and cultural heritage. Therefore it’s important to take these into consideration when psychology is taught and practised.
At the top of President Biden’s foreign policy agenda are COVID-19 and climate change. He has also pledged to make diplomacy and multilateralism the primary means of US foreign policy.
The writer and zen priest Reverend angel Kyodo williams speaks about the pain of racism, how she uses meditation to combat it — and become a stronger anti-racist activist in America today.
Mindfulness practices may help one examine long-held cultural assumptions, allowing one to better respond to current critical issues such as climate change and systemic racism.
In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.
Anonymous accounts show how urgently contemporary galleries need to confront legacies of discrimination
Benjamin Franklin spoke and wrote in ways that, if taken up now, could begin to erode the polarization of the current era.
After spending years examining the violent Red Summer of 1919, historian Karen Sieber discovered a previously hidden incident on the campus where she now works.
Because of context and history, some words and phrases carry a heavy burden with them. Their mere mention can bring back painful memories and problematic situations.
In this episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, host Vinita Srivastava and scholar Cheryl Thompson dive into the meaning of the n-word and the 150 years of racism embedded in it.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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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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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Geography, Columbus State University
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Associate Professor, Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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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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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of History, McGill University
