Afrikaners in post-apartheid South Africa struggle with a historical sense of inferiority that reinforces their whiteness.
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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.
Selective schools have never operated in isolation from broader historical forces — including Australia’s connected histories of racial exclusion and immigration.
Nine out of 10 rural places experienced increases in diversity from 1990 to 2010. Data show a more diverse future is guaranteed across all of America, and there’s no going back.
A survey of voters shows white racial identity is on the rise. Psychologists explain how it’s affecting the presidential election and how it will change American politics of the future.
Schools and universities in post-colonial contexts still operate within the logic of coloniality. This is starkly illustrated by their language policies.
During the 1980s, press coverage of South African family murders suggested that something was ‘wrong’ with white society – and with the white Afrikaans men who were usually seen as perpetrators.
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Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities, University of Manchester
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Associate Dean Education, Gnibi College, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago
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Professor of Social Psychology, UMass Amherst; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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