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Having stoked white resentment for his own benefit throughout his campaign, Trump is still emboldening it.
Memorials to confederate generals are lightning rods today for the same racist views they fought for 150 years ago.
The United States is seeing an uptick in far-right extremist violence. It’s time to pay more attention to this scourge and its causes.
Trump’s administration plans to ramp up prosecution of unauthorized border crossings. Here’s the story of how it became illegal in the first place.
For Western Cape Premier Helen Zille to invite black South Africans, in a casual manner, to differentiate the legacies of colonialism is asking a lot.
Today’s radical right is remaking its profile, using online communications to spread its message farther and deeper into our society than ever possible before.
The idea of white victimhood played an important part in Donald Trump’s rise. The South African brand of white supremacy has made a tangible contribution to this narrative of victimhood.
Rhodesia’s white supremacists appealed to the white electorate by taking a stand against African liberation. Similarly, Donald Trump appealed to white Americans who feel overwhelmed by globalisation.
The understandable outrage at neo-Nazis rallying for Trump shouldn’t distract from the complex realities of American racism.
The votes in South Carolina’s presidential primaries are once again expected to fall along racial lines.
In 2015 Princeton University investigated President Woodrow Wilson’s legacy of prejudice. A historian looks at the widespread racism in the American progressive movement of the early 20th century.
The killing of nine people in Charleston’s AME Church was motivated by racism, first and foremost, but also sexism.
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Assistant Professor of Geography, Columbus State University
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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 of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Alabama
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University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Distinguished Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Associate Professor of Global and International Studies, University of California, Irvine
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Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Iowa State University
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Co-founder and director of Hate & Extremism Insights Aotearoa (HEIA) and director, Master of Conflict and Terrorism Studies, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Lecturer in Old English, University College Cork
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Derek H. Alderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, Harvard Kennedy School
