ABC comedy series White Fever highlights a type of racism that is nuanced and hard to detect, but is just as harmful to people of colour.
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It can be easy to mistake feelings like fear and anger as hate. When biases are acted out in harmful ways, however, speaking up can help stop hate from getting worse.
There is a long history of the UK government failing to adequately provide for Gypsy and Traveller communities’ needs.
Thirty years after homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia, new laws making ‘gay propaganda’ an offence are criminalising being gay.
In recent years, the relationship between antisemitism and anti-Zionism has taken on renewed importance and competing definitions of antisemitism have emerged. What is antisemitism?
Most of the Klan’s victims were African American, but many other groups have been targeted during the hate group’s century and a half of history.
Hate is for the haters. Much of the thrill of posting toxic messages can come from the attention and social approval a poster gets from like-minded people.
In his collection of stories, “The Human Comedy”, the French 19th-century writer Honoré de Balzac turned the shaming of single women into an art.
After decades of efforts to increase female representation in corporate decision-making bodies, few women are managing to take the reins of power.
People who object to affirmative action were more likely to discriminate against job candidates with Black-sounding names than those who supported it, whether or not they had to rush.
The South African print often uses language that portrays foreigners in a bad light, and dehumanises them.
In order to combat racism and misinformation, it is vital for non-Indigenous people to have informed conversations about the referendum with those around you.
Though some LGBTQ+ health care providers may try to separate their personal and professional identities, the prejudice they experience highlights their queerness in the clinic.
In a thin-obsessed culture, fatness has become its own kind of monster.
A new study has looked at more than 15,000 people across 21 countries to assess whether vaccinated and unvaccinated people discriminate against each other.
Liberal schools of thought largely inform how Muslims are viewed across Europe, research finds.
Combatting antisemitism isn’t just about ‘calling it out’ – it’s about helping people understand what antisemitism is in the first place.
In Tanzania, only 2% of people born with albinism will live to the age of 40.
She eventually decided to become a public school teacher so she could influence a new generation of Americans.
With the Manly footy jumper episode providing yet another reminder of the prejudice LGBTQ+ Australians face, new research looks at the challenges faced by queer young people.
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Research fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Instructional Associate Professor of Gerontology, University of Southern California
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Director, BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Rank-Manning Junior Research Fellow in Social Sciences, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Human Development, Massey University
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Anne Pedersen is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University
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Honarary Research Fellow in Psychology, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer in English Language, University of Manchester
