Fear of Muslims in American Society
October 31, 2019
—Ann Gordon, L. Edward Day, Christopher D. Bader, and Joseph O. Baker
The authors of Fear Itself pull data from their Chapman University survey on American fear of Muslim Americans and Islam
Category: Race & Ethnicity
Fear of Immigration
October 30, 2019
—Ann Gordon, L. Edward Day, Christopher D. Bader, and Joseph O. Baker
The authors of Fear Itself pull data from their Chapman University survey on American fear of Immigration
Trump, Warren & the Native Origins Controversy: White Racial Politics Right and Left
September 24, 2019
—Enid Logan
This controversy provides a window into several different dimensions of the US racial landscape at this time, refracted through the lens of electoral politics.
The Links between Slavery, Policing, and Racism
July 30, 2019
—Jennifer E. Cobbina There is a long and mainly unresolved history of government using violence to establish and maintain relations of racial domination and subordination. However, as a nation, we… READ MORE
Fat Phobia Affects Everyone
May 15, 2019
—Sabrina Strings
Today, there is no community in America that can claim to be untouched by the twin regulatory forces of thin privilege and fat stigma.
Brown Jouissance and Simone Leigh’s Gathering of Jugs
October 15, 2018
—Amber Jamilla Musser
On Simone Leigh’s exhibit at Luhring Augustine and brown jouissance that brings together violence and possibility in the same frame in order to reclaim and remake selfhood.
Don’t Forget About Serena
October 12, 2018
—Ralina L. Joseph
A black woman icon such as Serena Williams has to bear the disproportionate burden of not only being the target of racist attacks, but also of being above responding to them, maintaining a pose of “strategic ambiguity.”
What We Talk About When We Talk About Crazy Rich Asians
August 20, 2018
—Lori Kido Lopez
Effective Asian American media activism requires analyses of media industries and audiences as well as readings of a film’s specific meaning and how fictional representations connect to larger structures of racism.