As Black immigrants, Haitians are doubly marginalized by structural racism embedded in US immigration policies and the broader societal racism experienced by Black Americans.
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American writer Ralph Ellison provided a sharp analysis of the subversive power of Black laughter in 1930s America.
People can have their own personal dialect based on their own linguistic and social experiences.
The Conversation’s expert panel believed Kamala Harris had more to prove – and Donald Trump more to lose – in the debate. Here were the moments that mattered.
From inflation to abortion, foreign policy and democracy, the two presidential candidates went at it fiercely during their prime-time debate. Two scholars – of race and of journalism – weigh in.
Debates are moments in time, but even years later, key items can evoke their history and reinforce their importance in American democracy.
In the ugly spectacle of American politics, it’s hard to keep humanity in sight. But literature, says a poet and scholar of the classics, can remind us of what we know about growing old.
The president is a stubborn man, but if he were able to annoint a successor, he could salvage a significant amount of his reputation.
The pressure on Joe Biden’s candidacy will now be immense. And whether he can turn it around is much less clear now than it was before the debate.
Scholars of communication and politics assess a presidential debate with a clear loser, but no clear winner.
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
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Adjunct Professor of Politics and Director of Think Again, University of Virginia
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Rachel Hadas is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
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Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Professor and Director of the School of Journalism, University of Montana
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Vice Provost and Professor of Sociolinguistics, Arizona State University
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Professor of English, Clark University
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Non-Resident Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Anthropology, American University