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The killing of nine people in Charleston’s AME Church was motivated by racism, first and foremost, but also sexism.
When he interred four anti-racist and secularist icons in Paris’s Panthéon, François Hollande perhaps hoped some of their legacy would rub off on him.
Social biases like racism and sexism can be weakened after a good night’s sleep, suggests study.
On Memorial Day, reflecting on the meaning of the ‘liberation’ of Europe 70 years on.
In South Africa’s segregated pre-apartheid state, even sex education was racialised. Christian missionaries had very different lessons for black and white children.
To burnish the virtues of “civilised” Europe, Adam Smith relies on a barrage of racial insults. Where did his information about the so-called “savage peoples” come from in the first place?
Australia’s human rights record isn’t perfect, but it still good. if Australians aren’t able to take some pride in that and be inspired to do even better, over-the-top criticism could backfire.
When Miranda Tapsell called for more diversity in Australian television in her Logies speech, she hit the nail on the head. It’s time for Australian producers to take colour-blind casting seriously.
Can we trace modern-day racism against Indigenous Australians to the country’s British invaders? Often when trying to extinguish a fire, it is more important to know what sustains it rather than what started it.
Better handling of peaceful protests at the death of Freddie Gray might have prevented the riots.
Despite having a black police commissioner and mayor, Baltimore has become the latest focus of African-American anger at racist policing.
Once they graduate, they’ll educate South Africans of all race groups – so what happens when student teachers don’t mix across racial lines? A digital storytelling project is bridging gaps.
We still blindly accept the police accounts of their behaviour. Why?
Violence, exploitation, marginalisation: how do we engage in the struggle against the many faces of oppression in contemporary Australia?
In the wake of the racist behaviour of a group of Chelsea supporters on the Paris Métro last week, a range of excellent critical commentaries emerged, pondering what these actions signified and how English…
The history of race science is a history of racist science, as epitomized by this proposed but never carried-out experiment from the early 20th century.
Until 1950 the Red Cross segregated blood. It was thousands of African-Americans during World War II who forced the Red Cross to include them as donors and helped pave the way for activism of the 1960s.
Humans are highly social creatures. Our brains have evolved to allow us to survive and thrive in complex social environments. Accordingly, the behaviors and emotions that help us navigate our social sphere…
In 1959, John Howard Griffin, a white American writer, underwent medical treatments to change his skin appearance and present himself as a black man. He then traveled through the segregated US south to…
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