Split soccer loyalties?
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As the World Cup kicks off in Qatar, a scholar probes questions of identity in the American game. Is Mexico really the US’s ‘other team’?
Participants in the Indigenous Peoples Of the Americas Parade in New York City, Oct. 15, 2022.
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Geographic, cultural and political identity are all part of being Indigenous.
Psychologists aren’t sure which factors drive students to form specific academic identities, but these identities can affect career choices.
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Students are less likely to think they can be good at both math and reading as they get closer to high school.
Many people were excluded from Indian status.
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Challenging Indigenous identity fraud in academia must name and focus explicitly on structures of whiteness, white entitlement and settler colonialism so we don’t recreate the harms of past policies.
Detail of the cover of the new book featuring art by Norman Catherine.
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This book succeeds well in describing and criticising, through many examples, how whiteness works.
Pinpointing Elvis Presley’s true persona can depend on when and whom you ask.
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Presley never wrote a memoir. Nor did he keep a diary. His music could have been a window into his inner life, but he didn’t even write his songs.
2SLGBTQQIA+ history cannot be complete without the stories of lesbian women.
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The Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive and Lesbian Oral History Project focus on gathering stories from the generation that began using the term lesbian, and those who still can’t.
Studies show that feelings of ease and comfort in a given situation – what psychologists call ‘fluency’ – are tied to feelings of authenticity.
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What if cultivating your authentic self doesn’t involve self-reflection, but instead means focusing on what feels good and natural?
Johnny Depp played Tonto in The Lone Ranger (2013). Depp has claimed some Native American heritage in the past.
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Indigenous Nations have always maintained their citizenship orders. They have always retained the right to determine who does and does not belong. We know who we are.
Ugandan strongman General Idi Amin raised the national profile of Uganda Nubians – but they were persecuted soon after his overthrow in 1979.
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There is more to ethnic identity than ancestral location or settlement pattern, language or family history.
My family is Mauritian, but when I take a DNA test, Mauritian didn’t even rank as an ethnicity. It can’t. Everyone from Mauritius is from somewhere else, or from many places at the same time.
An elderly citizen receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia, in May 2021.
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By scrapping the requirement, the Indonesian government can improve equality of access to basic services and protections that are sorely needed now and in the post-pandemic future.
French Lilian Thuram slips away from Italian player Stefano Fiore during the France vs Italy Final of the Euro 2000 soccer championhips in Rotterdam.
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The book reveals an insidious, unthinking form of racial hierarchy.
Young Ghanaians in Europe visit home for different reasons.
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Trips to their home countries by migrant youth help them create and update their relationship with the countries their families come from.
Protesters at an anti-vaccine rally in Pennsylvania in August 2021.
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Republicans are four times as likely as Democrats to say they’re not going to get the COVID-19 vaccine. What’s behind the polarization of who trusts or denies science?
Ron Eland, a South African Olympian who would go on to represent Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games.
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A new book explores physical culture in a social and historical context, focusing on colonial settings.
Men spoke of how crime in the area affected their everyday lives and how they constantly had to stay safe and out of trouble.
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A more balanced picture of “coloured” mens’ experiences and lives allows society to see beyond negative stereotypes.
Ghanaian students attend a class in a madrasa or Muslim school.
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Although Ghana has not been affected by religious conflict, the ways youth from the Muslim minority relate to their nation is an important question.
Ghana’s population has expanded its data categories
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Ghana’s latest population census offers a window into the contested terrain of population statistics.
The framing of Africa’s relationship with China needs a rethink.
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African identity needs a revision to move beyond current understanding of its relationship with China