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Public unrest, social institutions and trust

We will no doubt be asking for some time to come what happened in England’s towns and cities over the past few days. It is clear that the trigger was the police response to the marchers requesting an explanation for the death of their son, brother, friend and lover Mark Duggan. Some reports have said [...]

The Racial Politics of X-Men

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The X-Men franchise draws deliberate parallels between the oppression of mutants and that of other marginalized groups. What does it have to teach us about our own culture’s racial history and prejudices?

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Every once in a while, research results produce quizzical looks, general confusion, and a collective “Huh?” A recent example that has garnered media attention was published in the May 2011 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science.  The startling article asserts that whites believe that anti-white bias has become more prevalent than anti-Black bias.  The authors, [...]

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Dictionaries do a lousy job defining race. A new study suggests that the social cost of this may be higher than we thought, but there is also reason for optimism.

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Friday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami have evoked an outpouring of support for Japan.  Oh sure, facebook has seen a handful of clever updates like “Japan had it coming…” and “The earthquake is just God’s way of getting you back for Pearl Harbor,” but overall the response has been overwhelmingly supportive, sometimes to a (pardon the [...]

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An esssay on the life of a remarkable leader. Phoenix, Arizona. January 16, 2011 – The creation of a national holiday to honor the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., gives us an idea of the proportion of the historical importance and the achievements of this man, who has come to be a transcendent symbol [...]

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  By Ejim Dike, As a long-time racial justice advocate, I am often thinking of the intersections between my work and that of related movements. We all know that race, gender, class, and immigration status do not operate in a vacuum, but at times it can be difficult to find ways to incorporate even more [...]

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Let’s get one thing out of the way here at the top: I don’t listen to a lot of music or watch many music videos. I also don’t follow Kanye West’s career. Basically, though I sometimes listen to it, I really don’t know crap about rap. On the other hand, I do know a little [...]

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Well, here’s a piece I never imagined myself writing: A defense of a white man’s use of the N-word. I want to start with a little back-story: I don’t use the N-word. Not ever. But I used to, not so long ago. I used it in the context of talking about racism in my psychology [...]

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Racist rhetoric fuels hate crimes

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Originally published on Indian Country Today. In Navajo culture, there is a teaching that “your words are like a prayer.” Words have the power to manifest our reality, to literally bring things into being. Growing up, our elders admonished us to be careful with our words, especially harsh words that can’t be taken back – [...]

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