‘Banter’ about where you’re from or how you speak is harder to define than racism or sexism, but it is damaging.
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The famed Michelin Red Guide is coming to Philadelphia, and inspectors are scouting local restaurants to find some worthy of Michelin awards.
Unlike America’s ‘trailer trash; stereotype, the distinctly British term 'chav’ specifically targets perceived vulgarity, lack of sophistication and failures of proper femininity.
There is a continuing lack of representation within the UK legal profession, which means a worrying lack of diversity among judges too.
Young Black men are being denied employment for multifaceted reasons, and when they do find work, are often trapped in low-paying jobs.
Research shows why people in more diverse communities tend to rely less on negative stereotypes.
A lecturer in English literature gets her students to examine children’s books through the lens of race, class and sexuality.
We found that class prejudice is extensive in cricket. Racism is still entrenched. Women are marginalised and routinely experience sexism and misogyny.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is just one of many artists from Appalachia who are probing the crisis in their work, while taking pains to ensure that it doesn’t define the region and its people.
D.H. Lawrence’s book is a seething commentary on class, exposing his fears for Britain’s future. But the film is a romantic period drama.
People change their accents for many reasons, but it doesn’t necessarily protect them from accentism.
Online rage towards white communities and privileged classes can be read as fatigue with the postcolonial state.
The author of Shuggie Bain returns to the public housing schemes of 1980s working-class Glasgow to explore the redemptive power of secure love and the dangers of violent, dominating masculinity.
The data shows that attainment gaps in English education at age 16 cannot be attributed to any single factor.
Focusing solely on home working neglects the fact that most employees in the UK rarely or never worked from home after the pandemic
Loudly proclaiming your dislikes isn’t snobbery. There can be a power and poetry to putrescence.
Stereotyping people based on their accents is still a big problem at universities in England.
Abiy Ahmed has a vision to upgrade Ethiopia’s capital city but his ambitious megaprojects do not take the majority of Addis Ababa’s residents into account
Racism against fellow Indians and classism against the poor characterised India’s early response to coronavirus, that is reminiscent of British imperial public health policies.
Mexican advertising often portrays that to be white is to be rich, while to be dark is to be poor.
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