Historical housing discrimination in Detroit persists today and causes disparities in health outcomes. Policies are making a difference, but more needs to be done.
A 1982 Afrikaner cultural festival in Pretoria.
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Ordinary Whites in Apartheid South Africa is a new book that explores how apartheid monitored and shaped white life, and how all classes of white people were complicit.
Since the 1930s, the federal government has made payments to victims of financial hardships and social injustices. But for those suffering from the harms of slavery, the US remains silent.
England player Bukayo Saka was subjected to horrendous racist abuse after missing a penalty in the Euro 2020 final against Italy.
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From the racism and poverty of the Jim Crow South, Willie Mays rose to the height of fame and respect as perhaps the country’s greatest baseball player – one who inspired a president.
If Chaucer makes a comeback in the proposed English curriculum rewrite, we shouldn’t dismiss what his work tells us about human nature – and contemporary New Zealand.
We put together a list of staff recommendations of our podcast for your summer listening. This is a collage of the guests of those episodes.
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Félicien Faury, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay
For the far-right party’s voters, school is a source of concern and mistrust and also a key to understanding its success among women and voters with few qualifications.
Since the mid-20th century, a handful of white journalists have tried to understand the complexity of the Black experience through donning a costume.
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Many people agree freedom of speech has its limits and the law has some role to play in prohibiting harmful speech. But what should these laws look like?
Khin Myint (left) and his sister Theda.
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Khin Myint’s memoir explores family trauma and chronic illness, through the lens of his sister’s illness, childhood bullying and a brutal breakup that sparked a court case.
If challenging health inequities requires questioning structures of power, then this must sit at the centre of the work of all physicians.
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De-centring medical expertise means fostering skillsets that reduce disparities in health outcomes. Medical expertise alone is great for those with social privilege, but not enough for the rest.
The Michigan State Police force is predominantly white and male.
Doug Coombe
From culture shock to a lack of family support, slow progress on diversity in police recruitment reflects real challenges in a tough field.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump returns from a break in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 28, 2024, in New York.
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The intersectionality of hate, which combines racism, antisemitism and misogyny, leads the white heterosexual male to believe that he is a victim of the “minorities” he must resist.
While there is no simple answer to the question, our experts all agree Australia has a serious problem when it comes to racism.
Qualipu Mi’kmaw scholar Christopher Crocker has examined how fascination with Norse contact dominates Newfoundland tourism at the expense of pre-colonial Indigenous studies and representation. L’Anse-Aux-Meadow National Historic Site in northern Newfoundland.
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Indigenous and critical race approaches to narratives of the Middle Ages help reveal more accurate histories, and combat the misuses of ‘the medieval’ for hate.
New research shows racism among sports fans in Australia is still rife. White footy fans need to report racism – otherwise they’re giving a free kick to bigots.
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