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The #SayTheirNames campaign recalls the long struggle by Black Americans to assert their humanity in death, with roots in the fight for slave burials.
Evidence shows sharing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories helps break down stereotypes and prejudice. But these stories are absent from the majority of classroom literature.
A leading sociologist explains how different dimensions of humanity produce different kinds of inequality - and what that does to the least equal in society.
As the Black Lives Matter movement has , statues of figures linked to slavery have been removed. Such actions are just symbolic, however. What is at stake is the systemic transformation of the present.
Overall, waiting times may be improving – but long waits are still common in Black communities.
It is not just policing agencies that have a systemic racism problem, Canadian prisons do too
In the wake of protests about systemic racism, sports teams are under increased pressure to lose their racist nicknames. An Inuit scholar calls on the Edmonton Eskimos to do the right thing.
Barriers for Black scientists won’t go away without substantial funding – and measures that don’t require white people to lose out.
The Quran recognizes ‘no superiority of a white person over a black person.’ That notion, radical in 7th-century Arab society of slavery and tribal divides – remains unrealized 1,400 years later.
The US and other countries have a legal definition of citizenship, yet human psychology and identity politics result in ingrained biases over who truly belongs.
Young Black Canadian writers like Desmond Cole and Eternity Martis look at anti-Black racism on campus.
There are, scientifically, no human races. How did race come to have this power and this durability?
Slave trading was widely carried out during the Dutch colonial period in Indonesia. Widespread racism and slavery occurred in plantations managed by colonial companies.
Survey data shows British people continue to hold racist views and that minorities continue to face discrimination when applying for jobs.
Lampard’s point - that his opportunity to manage was exclusively the result of his own hard work - reinforces the belief that football is meritocratic, which it is not.
COVID-19 has again demonstrated the health inequities that exist between African Americans and whites.
A 2018 study found that Black activist students were less likely to get a response to their college inquiries. A sociologist discusses whether the protests of 2020 will do anything to change that.
The racial unrest in the US has drawn accusations of hypocrisy and questions on democratic legitimacy from around the globe, world, including those in Indo-Pacific.
Pandemic histories are useful for understanding COVID-19, but how they connect with race, public health, revolution, labour and colonialism are needed to explain the present and predict the future.
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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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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Professor of Indigenous Health; Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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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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Associate Professor, Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalester College
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of Argumentation & Advocacy, Emerson College
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Senior lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
