A sense – or fear – of victimhood pervades contemporary white supremacy from the extreme to the mainstream.
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A realignment is needed as the current systems have lost the competence to midwife a new nation out of the formative experiences of the last 25 years.
Former professor Robin DiAngelo’s book ‘White Fragility’ takes a reductive view on whiteness. This simplistic approach privileges a U.S.-centric view and ignores global experiences of whiteness.
The US and other countries have a legal definition of citizenship, yet human psychology and identity politics result in ingrained biases over who truly belongs.
The long history of racist beauty standards alone cannot explain the ongoing global use of harmful skin lighteners.
For migrants, prejudice can be a life and death matter. Research in India and South Africa shows life is considerably harder if migrants have a darker skin and come from a poorer country.
By 2050, the US will be a ‘majority-minority’ country, with white non-Hispanics making up less than half of the total population.
The extent to which schools foster political deliberation, engagement, understanding and empathy has far-reaching implications for our democracy.
As Brazil’s black women become more conspicuous and powerful, they are bullied and threatened in social media’s modern-day pillory.
A recent controversy surrounding Québec director Robert Lepage has had some people claiming to be colour-blind when in comes to race. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Afrikaners in post-apartheid South Africa struggle with a historical sense of inferiority that reinforces their whiteness.
Histories of the North Atlantic have had a preponderant influence on scholarship about race. But, for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who study southern Africa, this is changing.
Selective schools have never operated in isolation from broader historical forces — including Australia’s connected histories of racial exclusion and immigration.
Nine out of 10 rural places experienced increases in diversity from 1990 to 2010. Data show a more diverse future is guaranteed across all of America, and there’s no going back.
A survey of voters shows white racial identity is on the rise. Psychologists explain how it’s affecting the presidential election and how it will change American politics of the future.
Schools and universities in post-colonial contexts still operate within the logic of coloniality. This is starkly illustrated by their language policies.
During the 1980s, press coverage of South African family murders suggested that something was ‘wrong’ with white society – and with the white Afrikaans men who were usually seen as perpetrators.
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Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities, University of Manchester
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Assistant Professor, Education, Concordia University of Edmonton
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Associate Dean Education, Gnibi College, Southern Cross University
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Senior Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Research Associate, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Sociology of Education, University of Cambridge
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Psychology, New York University
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Professor in Language Education, member bua-lit collective, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Social Psychology, UMass Amherst
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Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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History Professor, University of Washington
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Associate professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
