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The recent massacre at a New Zealand mosque is a traceable, direct outgrowth of an American white nationalist movement that insists immigrants and people of color are a threat to ‘white civilization.’
Hawaii’s fight for statehood was long and waged primarily against racist US lawmakers who feared admitting a majority Asian territory. But 60 years ago, President Eisenhower signed the statehood bill.
In his address in the wake of the New Zealand attack, on the theme of managing differences, Morrison said it was not a matter of “disagreeing less, but disagreeing better”.
If you believe a conspiracy theory about a specific minority group, you are more likely to have negative views about other, unrelated groups too.
Recent blackface scandals that involve college yearbooks have overshadowed how yearbooks also chronicled important turning points in the history of US higher education, a historian argues.
It was 100 years ago this month that Benito Mussolini created the fascist party in Italy. Today, his life offers cautionary lessons for contemporary politics.
On racist dog-whistling and on climate change, the “right” now finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion – so the acrimonious public debates on ideological lines may be coming to an end.
KKK membership is falling rapidly across the US, according to a respected report. Ideas of hate, though, remain.
Michael Cohen wants you to know that throwing your kid a ball doesn’t make you a Red Sox pitcher. So he told lies, he says, but that doesn’t make him a liar. A rhetoric scholar dissects his argument.
Are you heading to Cuba this March break? Think carefully before you bring home your souvenirs. Many of them contain old racist imagery.
Winner of the 2019 Oscar for best picture, Green Book highlights the history of racism in America and has lessons for today.
Stereotypes of Black women continue to impact how they are treated in institutions.
Virginia’s stark political contradictions, reflecting centuries of racism and a new liberal majority, were on display when a blackface image was found recently on the governor’s old yearbook page.
The first NAACP meeting was held in Canada but there is no mention of Black Canadians in the books. This historical absence is a symbol of the invisibility of anti-Black racism in Canada.
The public was shocked by the blackface image on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook page. But if blackface is now taboo, there was a time when it played a big role in American culture.
It’s important to unearth how discriminatory immigration policy, largely invisible to the general public, undermines citizens’ rights and position.
Trump is not the first US president to talk about border security, but he is the only one to make it an “urgent national crisis”. Here is a handy deconstruction of President Trump’s rhetorical strategy.
Unconscious biases can trigger aggressive behaviour and lead to miscarriages of justice.
Misogynoir is defined as the junction where sexism and racism meet. But it’s more complicated than that.
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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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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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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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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
