Do Americans view all youth as equally ‘innocent’? A historian takes us back to the movement that led to unequal treatment of black and white youth in the justice system.
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Has the US’s apparently invincible populist demagogue finally hit an iceberg?
Bill Leak’s cartoon of a drunk Aboriginal father who doesn’t know his son’s name exemplifies a long tradition of white men’s fantasies about the inferiority of Aboriginal people.
Mark Duggan was shot by the police in 2011, but it took two-and-a-half years to complete an inquest into his death.
Until we see a marked change in the stories that are told, together with a shift from inclusion to social justice, the national story of Australian sport will remain very, very white.
Prevention and education are key to tackling hate crime in Britain.
Research that finds links between genes and intelligence could worsen social inequality.
Black kids get suspended in preschool for minor offenses. A 2016 report shows 45 percent of preschool boys were suspended, once or more.
Warcraft: the Beginning is based on the wildly popular game World of Warcraft – a fantasy escape for tens of millions of people. Yet watching the film brings home uncomfortable truths about race.
The gap between American police departments and the black communities they’re meant to protect is huge – but it can be closed.
Racial abuse and violence and the intertwining of ‘offline’ and ‘online’ worlds call for new methods for opposing racism in public.
The reforms today’s police departments desperately need were set out five decades ago.
Video of Philando Castile’s death has been seen around the world – and it’s all the more powerful because of who shot it.
When immigrants, rather than immigration, are seen as the problem.
Pauline Hanson and her party will potentially be a divisive presence in the next parliament. The challenge, for a potential Coalition government in particular, will be just how to handle her.
Sections of South Africa’s student movements regard transformation as a complete failure. Responding to this perceived failure, some have adopted an anti-democratic stance.
An incident on a train is a reminder of the damaging rhetoric that has been allowed to thrive in the run up to the referendum.
As the news sinks in, a lot of people who voted to Leave are having second thoughts. Many of them journalists.
The debate about immigration is becoming a debate about immigrants – which is dangerous territory.
A cultural war is necessary to protect the progressive and compassionate heart of this country.
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria 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 of Indigenous Health; Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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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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Associate Professor, Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Social Work, Michigan State University
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalester College
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Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of Argumentation & Advocacy, Emerson College
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Senior lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
