Tag: Racism
What is the online equivalent of a burning cross?
Jessie Daniels, City University of New York
White supremacy is woven into the tapestry of American culture, online and off – in both physical...
Charlottesville attack shows homegrown terror on the right is on the...
Arie Perliger, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a man named James Alex Fields Jr. used his Dodge Challenger as...
When gospel sermons came on the phonograph
Jerry Zolten, Pennsylvania State University
The first truly African-American musical form, the “Spirituals,” took shape in the 17th and 18th centuries within the generations of...
Combatting stereotypes: How to talk to your children
Marjorie Rhodes, New York University
How can modern parents raise the next generation to be free from corrosive gender and racial stereotypes? By the time...
Why it’s hard to ‘just get over it’ for people who...
Joan Cook, Yale University
People’s past, present and future are interconnected, and so is our country’s. Being willing to consider the connection between historical trauma...
The real reason Trump won: White fright
Christopher Sebastian Parker, University of Washington
Many presidents have assumed the reins of a divided nation, but we’ve never seen anything like the reaction to...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
