Shows, movies and day-to-day language promote myths about voodoo that reinforce more than a century of stereotypes and discrimination, writes a scholar of Africana studies.
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The Proud Boys are more of a loosely affiliated street gang than they are a unified right-wing militia, researchers say. But police ignore the threats from these groups, and their threats grow.
Researchers found that people with a specific gene variant were two to eight times more likely to not have symptoms after infection.
The Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action programs reverses nearly 50 years of its own decisions that ruled diversity was of vital national importance.
Kecelakaan mematikan di India yang merenggut nyawa sekitar 300 orang telah memfokuskan kembali perhatian internasional pada pentingnya perkeretaapian di negara tersebut.
A deadly crash in India that claimed the lives of around 300 people has refocused international attention on the importance of railways in the country.
President Lyndon Johnson’s commencement address at Howard University in 1965 offered a compelling argument on the need for affirmative action. His policies have been challenged ever since.
While most heterosexual couples are dual-earners, super rich couples continue to have gender-traditional arrangements in which the man is the sole breadwinner.
The founder of a violent anti-government group has been sent to prison for seditious conspiracy. Experts explain what that means.
We need deep-time African urban history and theories to make sense of contemporary urban life and anticipate its future possibilities in African terms.
Who are the Proud Boys, what do they want and is there a path back into society for these extremists?
Scholars explain what affirmative action is – and isn’t – as well as what its effects are, and why, among others, the military has supported it for decades.
The US Supreme Court is poised to determine the fate of the use of race in college admissions. Supporters of affirmative action, like the military, fear the worst.
Thousands gathered to express their collective identity and desire to preserve the nation’s political and religious heritage – and to uphold what they saw as the rightful outcome of the 2020 election.
White supremacist groups seek to solidify their control over the US by changing the government, sometimes by violence.
By providing insights from different disciplines, a new book uncovers new themes in the history of Yoruba people of West Africa
New members are joining and some are leaving – as right-wing groups reorganize, scholars of the movement foresee increased polarization, with a risk of more violence.
A new study found that while becoming a father gave men more leadership opportunities, becoming a mother diminished them for women.
Authorities have closed schools in some ultra-Orthodox areas of New York. The reasons for apparent noncompliance with public health guidelines are complicated, explains a cultural anthropologist.
They’re not really protesting – they’re hoping to find an opportunity to spark violence and trigger a war between black and white Americans.
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Professor of political science, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Professor, Department of Global Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Adjunct Professor of History, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
