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Given recent events, you might have had an inkling that extremist views have been resonating. Researchers from the Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention have the hard data to back it up.
One white educator reflects on the challenges, and the urgency, of tackling white supremacy in schools and on campuses in every country
Having stoked white resentment for his own benefit throughout his campaign, Trump is still emboldening it.
Memorials to confederate generals are lightning rods today for the same racist views they fought for 150 years ago.
The United States is seeing an uptick in far-right extremist violence. It’s time to pay more attention to this scourge and its causes.
Trump’s administration plans to ramp up prosecution of unauthorized border crossings. Here’s the story of how it became illegal in the first place.
For Western Cape Premier Helen Zille to invite black South Africans, in a casual manner, to differentiate the legacies of colonialism is asking a lot.
Today’s radical right is remaking its profile, using online communications to spread its message farther and deeper into our society than ever possible before.
The idea of white victimhood played an important part in Donald Trump’s rise. The South African brand of white supremacy has made a tangible contribution to this narrative of victimhood.
Rhodesia’s white supremacists appealed to the white electorate by taking a stand against African liberation. Similarly, Donald Trump appealed to white Americans who feel overwhelmed by globalisation.
The understandable outrage at neo-Nazis rallying for Trump shouldn’t distract from the complex realities of American racism.
The votes in South Carolina’s presidential primaries are once again expected to fall along racial lines.
In 2015 Princeton University investigated President Woodrow Wilson’s legacy of prejudice. A historian looks at the widespread racism in the American progressive movement of the early 20th century.
The killing of nine people in Charleston’s AME Church was motivated by racism, first and foremost, but also sexism.
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