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What are the race-related struggles that African-American students experience throughout their school years? Here’s the story of Tyrone.
The foundation founded by Nelson Mandela in 1999 has done a major revision - it has written off most of his reign as comprising “grand symbolic gestures”.
The ruling ANC has been seriously challenged by the Democratic Alliance, but South African politics is still about white privilege and black exclusion.
Left-wing grassroots movements are swelling their ranks and winning elections – but their standard-bearers are same old, same old.
Claudia Rankine, winner of the Forward Prize, has provoked discussions about poetry and race in the US. Why are these conversations not happening in the UK?
Matt Damon and Kyle Sandilands have both been accused of ‘whitesplaining’, but what does that mean?
There’s a fierce debate underway about changing university curricula in Africa and the UK to be less Eurocentric. Three academics offer their suggestions for a decolonised reading list.
Do academics need to change the way they teach race? What is the impact of students having been socialized to believe that “race doesn’t matter”?
When literary studies degrees focus almost entirely on the work of white, male writers, we do our students and the academy a great disservice.
Warning, anger ahead: Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change ― Audre Lorde…
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Associate Dean Education, Gnibi College, Southern Cross University
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Lecturer, School of Humanities, Griffith University
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Chancellor, Rutgers University - Newark
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