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World War II and Indigenous identities

Cross-posted from Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power – Blog post by Lin Poyer, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
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Dismantling master narratives in the history classroom

Although I began my doctoral studies in 2014, the seed was planted for the idea five years earlier, in 2009. It came in the form of a statement by then Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a news conference of the 2009 G20 summit, where without batting an eye he declared, “We also have no history of colonialism..."
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Discrimination based on your name alone is a stubborn reality in Britain today

What’s in a name? A great deal it would seem, including perhaps a diminished chance of being shortlisted for a job, offered a university place, or a rental property if you have an ethnic or racial minority background.
Street in Cape Town

Racial identities in the new South Africa

‘What are you?’ When posed with this question in highly racialised societies, most people respond by sharing their racial identity.
RACE.ED Celebrates Our Second Anniversary!

RACE.ED Second Anniversary Newsletter

This summer marks RACE.ED’s second anniversary, and we would like to celebrate the occasion by spotlighting RACE.ED’s blog collections and audio and visual content from over the past twelve months.
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The potential of children’s literature to confront issues of injustice

The world as we currently experience it, is beset with waves of crisis (Guilherme and Dietz, 2015: 1) all related to capitalist economics that have paved the way for stringent austerity and a growing sense of ‘not knowing where the world is or could be going’.
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Boxing with identities

The use of identity markers in sport has received considerable attention from scholars in a number of disciplines over a number of decades.
RACE.ED co-directors

RACE.ED Celebrates Its Second Anniversary

Every time I think of the transnational solidarity workshop RACE.ED hosted this past summer, I have to recollect and reaffirm that it was not a fever dream.
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The fluid nature of rural ethnic identity: encounters between non-Roma and Roma people in a Central-Eastern European context

In the early 2010s, France repatriated a large number of Roma back to Romania, following a series of highly controversial reforms by Nicholas Sarkozy’s government (BBC, 2010).
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Disrupting whiteness: countering ‘white backlash’

After recently writing a blog on hegemonic whiteness in the higher education classroom, my CERES colleagues invited me to reflect further on ‘white backlash’, or ‘pushback’ particularly from those who would deem themselves pro-social justice.
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Refugees like us

When I visited Angela Mesiti’s exhibition in Talbot Rice Gallery in December, 2021 for a potential collaboration, my immediate thoughts were how this exhibition could provide a platform to critically think about key questions on migration, and difference.
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Interracial couples and the phenomenology of race

In majority white countries, the Black Lives Matter protests that unfolded after the murder of George Floyd were accompanied by the intensification of public debates on systemic racism and white allyship. Some media focused on Black-white couples, discussing the impact of these events on white partners’ understanding of anti-black racism in their Black partners’ lives.

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