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.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Racism
Displaying 1441 - 1460 of 1620 articles
Human population groups worldwide are highly homogeneous genetically. They are in fact 99.5% similar and their anatomical features vary in an uncorrelated fashion over the landscape.
Germany’s far-right, anti-Islamic street movement is coming to the Midlands, and it has a familiar face at its helm.
Like a lot of people, I’m embarrassed to be living in an advanced industrialised OECD nation where our national flag includes that of a foreign nation. I just want us to grow up. Canada, a significant…
School and teacher attitudes have a lot to answer for when it comes to the achievement gap between immigrant and non-immigrant children.
The Nazis incarcerated, sterilised and denied statehoood to black people.
With the local government elections set to take place within the next seven months, it is worth considering what impact the recent upsurge in protests will have on the country’s political future.
In the 1950s, Woody Guthrie lived in one of Fred Trump’s buildings. In newly discovered, never before published writings, Guthrie bitterly rails against the developer’s color line.
Martin Luther King’s legacy must be contextualised within a larger global struggle against racism and hatred. Africans should revisit the values he espoused and continue with the anti-racism crusade.
Why we should criticise Charlie Hebdo’s latest satirical take on racism.
Racial divisiveness got worse under Obama. And it could erode further after he leaves office.
Pundits will closely watch President Jacob Zuma’s January 8 statement to see what he and the governing ANC consider to be priorities for the country in 2016.
The central thrust of Haffajee’s book is compelling. It argues that black South Africans, especially the new generation of young, black ‘born frees’ are obsessed with whiteness and white privilege.
A decade on from the Cronulla Riots, Australia needs to reflect upon the lessons that should be learnt following the riot which divided a nation.
The debate about the quality of High Court judges after the Pistorius trials reflects a different cultural clash in South Africa – one in which incompetence is often associated with black people.
Rather than simply shutting down these groups, universities need to engage these difficult conversations to support the younger generation to fight together for meaningful social change.
100 years ago, America’s infamous racist group staged a near-takeover of the nation’s film and media industries. Here’s how they did it.
American police kill 100 times more civilians than Finnish police. Racism and gun control are just part of the problem.
Alf Garnett was a blue-collar bigot for the ages. You still don’t have to go far to hear people spout his appalling views even today.
Despite science refuting the existence of different human races, people have used “race” throughout history to divide and denigrate certain people while promoting their claims of superiority.
Top contributors
-
Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
-
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University
-
Professor of Indigenous Health; Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
-
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
-
Chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
-
Associate Professor, Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
-
Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
-
Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
-
Assistant Professor of Geography, Columbus State University
-
Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University
-
Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
-
Senior lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Leeds Beckett University
-
Assistant Professor, Education, Concordia University of Edmonton
