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In France, organizations wishing to combat racism and Islamophobia must do so within a challenging “colorblind” context.
The American Sociological Association recently released a statement “urg[ing] public officials, educators, and lawmakers to avoid suppressing knowledge, violating academic and free speech, and prohibiting scholars and teachers from discussing and teaching about the roles of race and racism in society.
The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. […]
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed every March 21 to bring the international community together […]
Un-modeling the ‘model minority’ — a term often used to describe Asian American populations in the United States — is […]
Race can play a role in violence and prejudice, even if the offender does not clearly express a racist intent.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Diego Gambetta, a professor of social theory at the European University Institute in Florence, discussing his research around signaling theory and the applications of his work, whether addressing courtship, organized crime of hailing a cab.
Picture a standard corporate meeting room, participants crowded around a video of multi-racial actors acting out hypothetical office scenarios. They […]
Seeing people stream out onto the streets is probably the most hopeful Akwugu Emejulu has been since the start of the pandemic. Amid mass death, incompetent and vengeful leadership and economic collapse, people join together to demand more and better for themselves.
Rather than a ‘racial democracy,’ racism and prejudice against black people and women in particular, remains strong in the minds of many Brazilians. Using his policy brief as ammunition, Dr. Luiz Valerio argues that social media platforms play an important role in the dissemination and reinforcement of such ideologies and offers recommendations that should not be overlooked.
The weather is getting cooler and it’s the perfect time to cozy up with a good book. Nancy DiTomaso : […]
In the furor over immigration reform in the U.S., many taking a tougher line cite the law, not the evident ethnicity of the immigrants, for their stance. But that ethnicity matters, new research suggests.
