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Race, Blacksound, and the (Re)Making of Musicological Discourse

This article highlights practices of exclusion embedded in musicology—especially in relation to race, racialized people, and race relations ...

I'm a Black Scholar Who Studies Race. Here's Why I Capitalize 'White.'

In recent days, multiple well-respected journalistic outlets have announced to much fanfare that, having reflected on the rapidly shifting ...

Polarization, Democracy, and Political Violence in the United States

American voters are less ideologically polarized than they think they are, and that misperception is greatest for the most politically engaged people.

Critical Race Theory, the New Intolerance, and Its Grip on America

As its name should make abundantly clear, Critical Race Theory (CRT) is the child of Critical Theory (CT), or, to be more precise, ...

Trump's Attacks on DEI Reveal Administration's Agenda for Second ...

The 2024 Trump campaign's “anti-white racism” rhetoric threatens to unravel decades of progress on racial equality and civil rights.

What Is White Privilege, Really? - Learning for Justice

Having white privilege and recognizing it is not racist. But white privilege exists because of historic, enduring racism and biases.

How Structural Racism Works — Racist Policies as a Root Cause of ...

Structural racism affects both population and individual health in three interrelated domains: redlining and racialized residential segregation, mass ...

The Bias of 'Professionalism' Standards

Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not privilege the values of white and Western ...

Francisco Cantú Talks Borders, Rhetoric, and Climate Change

Twenty pages into my first reading of The Line Becomes a River, I laid the book ...

The evolution of Black representation on television

Television has served as "a primary source of America's racial education," says UArizona scholar Stephanie Troutman Robbins, co-editor of ...

White supremacy | Definition, History, Examples, & Facts - Britannica

White supremacy, beliefs and ideas purporting natural superiority of the lighter-skinned, or “white,” human races over other racial groups.

The Racist Anti‐Racism of American Anthropology - AnthroSource

In 1909 Franz Boas conducted a massive study entitled Changes in Bodily Forms of Descendants of Immigrants. In this study, he demonstrated ...

Analysis: How the media created a 'superpredator' myth that harmed ...

Twenty-five years ago this month, the word “superpredator” spread in the media like wildfire, shaping criminal justice policy for decades.

Building a Foundation for Change: Canada's Anti-Racism Strategy ...

The experiences of racialized communities and Indigenous Peoples with racism and discrimination can also vary. Applying an intersectional lens ...

Chapter 1: What is Rhetorical Theory?

Perhaps the most widely circulated definition of rhetoric still circulating today is from Aristotle: “the faculty of observing the available means of persuasion ...

The Ghosts of Housing Discrimination Reach Beyond Redlining

For decades, until the Fair Housing Act of 1968, redlining legally blocked groups of people (especially Black households and other households of ...

Malcolm X | The Ballot or the Bullet - American Public Media

He was an apostle of black nationalism, self respect, and uncompromising resistance to white oppression. Malcolm X was a polarizing figure who both energized ...

Race and Othello on Film Laura Reitz-Wilson - Purdue e-Pubs

Iago and Roderigo speak the most obvious racial slurs against Othello. Roderigo refers to the "thick-lips" (1.1.66), "gross clasps of a lascivious Moor". (1.1.

What America Could Look Like Without Fox News | TIME

Tucker Carlson is gone, but what if the network vanished too? A data-based thought experiment.

Storytelling Project Model - Organizing Engagement

The Storytelling Project Model was developed by Lee Anne Bell, a professor of education at Barnard College who has taught and facilitated numerous courses, ...