Books showing Black children spending time with family, or playing at home, help Black kids see themselves in literature and give all kids a window into others’ experiences.
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Donald Trump’s attacks on Kamala Harris expose a worldview that defends whiteness as imbued with dominance over other racial groups.
Beefs often target Drake’s race, constructing him as a Canadian who is not Black enough to claim an authentic connection to African-American hip hop culture.
The film conveys an uncomfortable truth: Jordan was merely a vessel for Nike’s meteoric rise.
Black students told a researcher they felt conflicted about hiding parts of themselves in order to get ahead.
Western fashion, laundering and style reflected the racialized politics dramatically shaped by profound global transformations bound up with slavery, colonialism and modernization.
Social media can offer Black African young people in Australia safe spaces to engage in positive expressions of afro-Blackness.
Pristine and beautiful or black and dirty? As bushfires become more frequent and we look to Indigenous fire control practices, it is time to reconsider our attitudes to burnt earth.
A realignment is needed as the current systems have lost the competence to midwife a new nation out of the formative experiences of the last 25 years.
History professor Jessica Krug had built her life as a Black woman, but she was a white Jewish woman from Kansas. Her revelation raises questions about why some white people assume Black identities.
Black lives are further in peril in a time of COVID-19. Subject to death on both the public health and policing fronts, we will not be silent.
Nova Scotia’s African Canadian communities have grappled with racism for decades. By looking at community green spaces, we can see how they serve the community’s unique needs.
Afrofuturism allows Black people to not only imagine their distant futures but also how to survive the anti-Black present.
The Raptors’ success in reaching the NBA final for the first time in the franchise’s history is an opportunity to reflect on the diversity of the team.
As Brazil’s black women become more conspicuous and powerful, they are bullied and threatened in social media’s modern-day pillory.
Black lives in Brazil are devalued and subject to violence on a horrific scale.
Histories of the North Atlantic have had a preponderant influence on scholarship about race. But, for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who study southern Africa, this is changing.
In 4:44, his 13th album, Jay-z gets confessional and socio-political, challenging traditional notions of Black male bravado and masculinity.
A recent Pew survey reported that young African-Americans are more likely to be both victims and perpetrators of cyberbullying. Why?
At the root of the skin bleaching phenomenon is a psychological complex.
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town
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Associate professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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PhD in Sociology, University of Southampton
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Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
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Research Assistant Professor NYU Langone Health, Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Oakland University
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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