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Many students arrive at college without ever having a non-white teacher. Professors of color can inspire higher order thinking and analysis.
Rosa Parks was a hero in the fight against segregation … but she was just one of many.
There is some dismay at the idea of academic attention being paid to these celebrities.Here’s why it’s important.
These innocuous-on-the-surface comments and actions take a psychological toll on marginalized groups. Here’s why they’re a part of campus debates on race.
As the debate spreads from Missouri to universities across the country, insights from The Conversation’s coverage of race on campus.
Clemson students have been organizing over the past two years on issues of racism and inclusion. What if the Clemson Tigers decided to do what the Missouri Tigers did?
Reports of an inquiry into allegations that police tried to shield the killers suggest the murder has yet to be fully investigated.
Why do white players seem so intent on preserving an unspoken set of rules?
When Meryl Streep and the stars of the upcoming film Suffragette donned t-shirts emblazoned with the quote “I’d rather be a rebel than a slave,” they reignited a contentious debate in feminism.
Fanfiction is nebulous, confusing and often mocked. It’s also explosively popular. So what is it?
Ah, Twitter. So quick to bear arms in righteous indignation. But so quick, too, to forget. This week “the internet”, which term has usurped what used to be known as “public opinion”, is upset about some…
It seems that different races listen to different music, but it is actually culture and value that determines this, not skin colour.
Anthony Horowitz’s comments about the actor recall many euphemisms used to put Black people down.
Though they presented themselves as hardened gangsters, the only rap sheets NWA had were notebooks full of song lyrics.
One year on from Ferguson, the message of Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail could not be more relevant.
For at least some Australians, it seems that Indigenous culture is acceptable only as an object of consumption for tourists visiting the remote north.
It’s time to end discrimination in employment by getting rid of the box that asks applications to disclose convictions or arrests.
What can Star Trek teach us about today’s trek of life?
The hoopla surrounding the novel’s release is misguided; after all, how much power could a novel written 50 years ago wield in today’s charged environment?
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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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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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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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Visiting Researcher in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Associate professor, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Excellence in Policing & Public Safety Program, University of South Carolina
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Georgia
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Assistant Professor of History, Hunter College
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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 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, University of the Witwatersrand
