TIME Magazine’s latest cover story (Feb. 2/24) is called “Yo Decido. Why Latinos will pick the next President.” It reports that about 9% of all voters in 2012 will be Latino, up 26% from four years ago. While the Latino vote is definitely interesting, the most interesting thing about this story isn’t the headline or the [...]
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By Sharif Rasheed, Bethe1change.com, When I started reading and researching after many years of being lied to in order to pacify me, I started to learn the truth. Not opinion, but actual facts. I was shocked because the majority of the education I received in high school led me down the wrong path. It led [...]
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By Robert Chanate Originally Published on Indian Country Today “Hi, my name is Pam and I just wanted to say I’m sorry for what my people did to your people” stated my white coworker by way of introduction. It was my first summer after high school graduation and I was working as a grocery bagger [...]
Continue reading …Brazil has been a long-standing place of interest for many scholars due to its fluid racial categorization that focuses on phenotype rather than hypodescent. With the release of Brazil’s 2010 census data, the newly-minted[1] “minority-majority” country only further piques the interest of many in the U.S. as our country quickly approaches its own “racial tipping [...]
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The X-Men franchise draws deliberate parallels between the oppression of mutants and that of other marginalized groups. What does it have to teach us about our own culture’s racial history and prejudices?
Continue reading …Every once in a while, research results produce quizzical looks, general confusion, and a collective “Huh?” A recent example that has garnered media attention was published in the May 2011 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science. The startling article asserts that whites believe that anti-white bias has become more prevalent than anti-Black bias. The authors, [...]
Continue reading …Dictionaries do a lousy job defining race. A new study suggests that the social cost of this may be higher than we thought, but there is also reason for optimism.
Continue reading …The personal motivations of those who make them are the most interesting things about racist choices. Because I am African American and blog at Psychology Today a friend wrote to tell me about another blogger, Satoshi Kanazawa. Kanazawa, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, recently published an answer to his own question: “Why [...]
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Co-authored by Carrie Bettinger-Lopez and Sunita Patel, This week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency formalized its Haitian deportation policy. ICE claims it will consider medical and humanitarian factors when deciding whether to deport someone to Haiti. Yet, the policy will still lead to deportations, as early as next week, of individuals like “Fred,” a [...]
Continue reading …Every now and then, some families get to experience “that intervention moment.” This is when the uncle who’s been getting high, drunk and abusive every single day finally admits that he might have a problem. Of course he still minimizes the significance of his issues, but he has at least opened the door to getting [...]
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