by Claire Cheek, Ellen Nilsson, and Hannah Quiroz I’m sorry, isn’t this character, Long Duk Dong… like, kinda racist? Not “kind of.” Extremely racist. So why do you like this movie? Why are even asking that question? Hello, Jake Ryan! The movie date scene in Netflix’s new teen movie To All the Boys […]
by Kim Joseph and Ashley Anderson October is here, and the leaves are changing. Thankfully, there is no shortage of Halloween decorations, horror films, and pumpkin spice lattes to get us into the fall spirit. But while the leaves are changing, sometimes it feels like the times have not changed much at all. Every […]
by Kim Joseph and Ashley Anderson In the days following Nike’s announcement that Colin Kaepernick would be the new face of their “Just Do It” campaign, online sales increased by a startling 31 percent. Almost immediately, the public responded to the Nike ad with cries of “woke-washing,” a phenomena that occurs when corporations use […]
By Claire Cheek, Hannah Quiroz, and Ellen Nilsson “Answer the question. The question, jerk!” This token phrase came from none other than tennis legend John McEnroe. During the Swedish Open in 1984, number one ranked tennis player John McEnroe threw yet another infamous temper tantrum during a match. Frustrated with decisions made by the umpire, […]
by Cord J. Whitaker This post contains spoilers for Black Panther. I left Black Panther with a smile on my face and thinking one very comforting thought: black people will rule the world—and soon. It’s not that Wakanda exists, nor that vibranium exists, nor even that white people should get their comeuppance. Everybody is […]
by Medievalists of Color Medieval studies is increasingly acknowledging realities of race and racism in the profession—reflected in everything from the call to recognize that racism is inherent in the very use of the term “Anglo-Saxon”; to Richard Spencer and the so-called alt-right’s cooptation of Western European medieval studies to buttress their white supremacist ideology; […]
by Rachele Byrd, Shivani Dayal, and Molly Hoyer Between 1990 and 2000, the percentage of babies in the US born to two parents of different races rose significantly, from 5 to 9 percent. This increase is part of a larger trend in the United States that, over the course of the last thirty years, […]
by the Census Critics The categories and language used on the census have changed with every iteration—to reflect the new administration’s social usage of racial and ethnic terms. Since race is a social construct, the terms used regarding race and ethnicity are often confusing, biased, and defined differently by different people. The Census Bureau hopes […]
by Sabrina Cadiz, Elizabeth Jimenez Fique, and Sydney Tischler In an age when deconstructing binaries of all kinds has become next to normal, attempting to describe racial boundaries is a daunting feat. This is especially relevant when we think about the complex narratives intertwined with Jewish history. It begs quite a few questions: is Jewishness […]
by Rachele Byrd, Shivani Dayal, and Molly Hoyer We would like to believe that our education system is a meritocracy—that those who are most deserving will be offered a spot at the nation’s most prestigious institutions. That ideal, however, has hardly ever been the reality of the matter. Over the centuries, various ethnic groups […]
