List of Race and Ethnicity articles
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Civil Rights activists carrying “I Am a Man” placards are blocked by National Guardsmen during a protest in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. Our Top Weekend Reads
America’s founders missed an opportunity to abolish slavery, attacks on the press are increasing in democratic societies, and Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran isn’t working.
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race-international-relations-colonialism-foreign-policy-illustration Why Is Mainstream International Relations Blind to Racism?
Ignoring the central role of race and colonialism in world affairs precludes an accurate understanding of the modern state system.
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George Washington and some of the more than 300 enslaved people who worked at Mount Vernon How America’s Founding Fathers Missed a Chance to Abolish Slavery
They swept the issue under the rug, and even Thomas Jefferson realized that civil war was inevitable before he died on July 4, 1826. But history could have taken a different direction.
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Police in riot gear stand in formation during protests on May 29 in Louisville, Kentucky. These Countries Reformed Their Brutal, Biased Police. The U.S. Can, Too.
Well-meaning reforms are often blocked and rarely succeed. But there are ways to make them stick.
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People walk down 16th Street in Washington after volunteers painted "Black Lives Matter" on the street near the White House on June 5. Seeing Race In a Pandemic
How the physical environment affects our experience of difference.
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Thomas Jefferson’s monument in Washington If Americans Grappled Honestly With Their History, Would Any Monuments Be Left Standing?
The furor over police abuse of Black communities is raising new questions about the original sin of America’s Founding Fathers.
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Ueno Tokyo Japan Radically Increased Immigration—and No One Protested
To cope with demographic challenges and labor shortages, Japan’s right-wing government has boosted immigration. How did it avoid the political backlash plaguing the West?
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Black Lives Matter Protest London When Did Racism Become Solely a Domestic Issue?
International relations theorists once explored racism. What has the field lost by giving that up?
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A protester near the site where George Floyd was killed while in police custody, on May 26 in Minneapolis. Calls for Police Reform Are Getting Louder—Here Is How to Do It
The United States’ chronic police brutality problem can be solved using evidence and data.
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Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the United States Trump Wants to Label Antifa a Terrorist Organization. What About the KKK?
For more than a century, white supremacy groups have wreaked incalculable devastation against Black Americans.
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Demonstrators hold signs as they take part in a Juneteenth march and rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on June 19. America’s Identity Crisis
Race and reconciliation lessons from a Black international peace builder
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A rally takes place in Senegal.. Our Top Weekend Reads
Racism in international relations, the state of the German armed forces, and Hindu nationalism is creeping into Nepal.
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Reporter Jesse J. Holland I’m a Black Reporter. Covering America Almost Broke Me.
Journalists pay a personal toll covering public tragedies.
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A woman carries a 'Black Lives Matter' sign past U.S. National Guard troops in the Fairfax District, an area damaged during yesterday's unrest, after the troops were activated by California Governor Gavin Newsom following violent demonstrations in response to George Floyd's death on May 31, 2020 in Los Angeles. How White Supremacy Weakens the United States
The Trump administration’s agenda on race undermines the country’s military, alliances, and security.
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Two members of the National Guard walk past at the World War II Memorial as protests against police brutality and racism take place It’s Not Just Trump. The World Worries America Is Broken.
Protests against police brutality and systemic racism highlight what is seen as the United States’ accelerated decline.
