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Many Black audiences are justifiably weary of works about their community told from white perspectives. But authorship isn’t always black and white.
The insistence on preserving the team name – along with fan traditions like the ‘tomahawk chop’ – is even more glaring given the city’s links to the civil rights movement.
Students with disabilities do better when they remain in general education classes, but systemic bias often leads them to be placed in separate classrooms, a special education researcher writes.
Years before Colin Kaepernick was born, Robinson wrote, ‘I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a Black man in a white world.’
Scholars discuss the meaning of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s elevation to the highest court in the land.
Solidarity must never be attempted through the erasure and homogenization of people’s lived experiences.
People may be more willing to boycott a retailer over an act of injustice that takes place at the store if the source of the story was Black – even if the incident happened to a white person.
Spanish musicians are increasingly producing reggaetón music while ignoring the colonial history of Spain and South America and also erasing its Black roots in the process
Scholars discuss the meaning of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s potential elevation to the highest court in the land.
The racism seen in the Ukraine refugee crisis reflects a long legacy of how the West defines who is human. We need a new definition that respects the dignity of all humans.
We must demand safety for all refugees, not just Ukrainian nationals.
A vital step in achieving the kind of action and change that CRT proposes is for each of us to be intentional and steadfast in our convictions to dismantle racist and oppressive power structures.
Black writers like Charles Chesnutt had to contend with a dilemma writers today know all too well: give the audience and editors what they want, or wallow in obscurity.
As the Los Angeles Rams prepare to take on the Cincinnati Bengals, The Conversation takes a critical look at some of the biggest news stories from the past NFL season.
An analysis of 267 NFL offensive and defensive coordinators since 2003 finds that the Chiefs’ Eric Bieniemy’s odds of being hired as a head coach would have gone up significantly if he weren’t Black.
In the absence of meaningful national dialogue about race, the American public often turns to entertainers to unpack complicated social issues.
We can’t judge the Roman period by our standards and assume that it was predominantly White.
A street-by-street analysis shows where the risks are rising fastest and also lays bare the inequities of who has to endure America’s crippling flood problem.
Algorithms have been shown to discriminate on the basis of race and gender. Studying age-related discrimination is essential to develop more equitable AI systems and technologies.
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Journalism, IUPUI
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Sharon D. Wright Austin is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
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Assistant Professor of History, Hunter College
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Georgia
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Senior lecturer, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Employment Equity, UMass Amherst
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Research Director of the Center for Employment Equity, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
