Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
‘Old Bones in Boxes’: Lessons On Race and Physical Anthropology
The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. In this […]
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed every March 21 to bring the international community together as a […]
A Micro Syllabus on Asian American Experiences and Politics
Un-modeling the ‘model minority’ — a term often used to describe Asian American populations in the United States — is a crucial […]
Violence Against Asians in U.S. Rests on Racism. Period.
Race can play a role in violence and prejudice, even if the offender does not clearly express a racist intent.
Diego Gambetta on Signaling Theory
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.
Diversity Training and the Future
Picture a standard corporate meeting room, participants crowded around a video of multi-racial actors acting out hypothetical office scenarios. They fill out […]
Finding Hope From Seeing the George Floyd Protesters
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.
Social Media in Brazil: Distilling Racism Against Black Women
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.
