Racism affects health and often leads to early death. We now know in greater and more alarming detail how this happens.
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The FBI has long warned that white supremacist groups are seeking to infiltrate police, which makes the events of Jan. 6 all the more concerning.
There are, scientifically, no human races. How did race come to have this power and this durability?
In a recent survey, more than three-quarters of white parents of 6- to 11-year-olds said they didn’t talk to their kids very much about racism.
Black farmers own far less land than they did in 1910 and the racial gap in homeownership is at the highest level for 50 years.
The COVID-19 pandemic presents potentially concerning trajectories for race relations. Many of these concerns might even originate within the medical profession.
The proposals Abbott has pushed as envoy - more police in Indigenous communities and learning in English - demonstrates his ignorance and unsuitability for the job.
While some complaint that anti-discrimination laws stifle freedom of speech, there is good evidence that they make a more harmonious, safe and equal society.
The Australian justice system must do more to acknowledge the colonial system on which it is built, which inherently privileges whiteness.
Writing Apu out of The Simpsons is a simplistic solution to the issue of diversity in media. Instead, we need to support programming created by people of colour.
Australia is becoming more diverse, but these charts show we are still predominantly an Anglo society with strained relations with other cultures, particularly Indigenous and Muslim Australians.
People of colour, Indigenous people, Muslims and Jews are regularly lectured to on racism by people who have never experienced it.
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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