The process of decolonising research methodology is an ethical, ontological and political exercise rather than simply one of approach and ways of producing knowledge.
Articles on Black Lives Matter
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Displaying Confederate statues in a carefully curated museum would help end a toxic debate about the difference between remembering and venerating.
To pitch an alternative timeline, you first have to believe a particular narrative of real history. That’s where things can go wrong.
Fifty years of the Caribbean Carnival in Toronto has had a significant impact on Canada’s cultural institutions. It’s also helped educate Canadians about Black history.
Thousands marched in silence against racial violence after a riot left hundreds of blacks dead and thousands homeless. The demands of black people in 2017 remain the same as they did in 1917.
The 19th-century social gospel, which emphasized how Jesus’ ethical teachings could address poverty and inequality, continues to live on in the activism of the religious left.
Research shows how politics can easily halt reforms that require time to take effect.
One of the lesser known demands of Black Lives Matter is the right to a safe space to celebrate Black Queer Lives. This year’s Blockorama party in Toronto is evidence the movement is progressing.
It took only 30 minutes to plunge Toronto’s queer community into civil war. All across North America, Pride parades are debating police brutality.
It’s important to shift educational discourse in and around Africa in a more equitable, representative direction.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille ‘s Twitter rant about colonialism caused an uproar as it brought back memories of a brutal and violent time in South Africa.
Ignorant and hateful people are not behind the production of racist ideas, as Americans are taught so often during Black History Month.
As a privileged mainstream protest movement rises, it should heed the experiences and triumphs of its more radical counterparts
Americans enjoy a right to free speech, and some public figures really exercise that right. The Constitution might not protect them the way they think it does, though.
After Donald Trump’s victory, a scholar says the biblical prophets can help show us the way forward: Just as there is no peace without justice, there is no healing without grief.
Swinburne political scientist Bryan Cranton looks at why so many experts got the US Election so wrong
Two major trials in the killings of black victims in South Carolina start this week. Learn about the state’s past and present struggle with racial violence in this roundup.
Do you feel as if the moderators keep asking the same questions of the presidential candidates? Our panel has some fresh ideas.
Will the candidates acknowledge the Black Lives Matter platform during the debate in St. Louis? Millennial voters will be listening.
A scholar of visual culture sees a transition happening online as the alt-right reinterprets images of police shootings to push back against the gains made by Black Lives Matter.
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Associate Professor of History, Deakin University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Professor, Sociology, University of Alberta
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor in Women and Gender Studies-UTM Campus, University of Toronto
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Professor of History, American University School of International Service
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Assistant Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University
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Chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology