Top stories published by On Race — isms in May of 2015

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May 21, 2015

“WHY I DROPPED EVERYTHING AND STARTED TEACHING KENDRICK LAMAR’S NEW ALBUM”

“Butterflies are beautiful, too — and they are full of color. Butterflies are so beautiful, they can’t be made any more so. They can’t be manipulated, exploited, controlled, or confined. So why does…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

May 7, 2015

“Who Would Be the Worst White Mulan?”

“there’s already a preemptive petition to prevent a white actress from being cast in the lead role. This petition, which currently has over 20,000 signatures, demands that Disney’s producers cast an Asian actor as Mulan instead of whitewashing the movie, as is…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

May 3, 2015

“Why Some of Us Will Not, Cannot, and Do Not Post about Baltimore”

“the ubiquity and constant nature of social media means that it is quite frankly exhausting. It is draining and demoralizing to scroll through reams and reams of the hurt done to our communities by white people, as…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

May 10, 2015

“‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us’”

“Since Aug. 9, 2014, when Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson Police Department shot and killed Michael Brown, Mckesson and a core group of other activists have built the most formidable American protest movement of the 21st century to date. Their…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

May 30, 2015

“Students Give Worse Reviews to Professors With Asian Names”

“Students also tended to flag the accents of professors with Asian-seeming names, sometimes making extreme comments such as “HE BARELY SPEAKS ENGLISH,” “don’t take him unless you know Chinese,” and “did not understand a…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

May 18, 2015

“This insanely detailed map proves race is a social construct”

“The hierarchy of the table reflects the conventional wisdom of the time — eugenics and social Darwinism hypothesized that the Nordic races were the most evolved, that southern and eastern Europeans were less so, and that…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

May 4, 2015

“A Superhumanization Bias in Whites’ Perceptions of Blacks”

“Studies 1–2b demonstrate this phenomenon at an implicit level, showing that Whites preferentially associate Blacks versus Whites with superhuman versus human words on an implicit association test and on a categorization task…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

May 8, 2015

“Dear Pope Francis, Namibia was the 20th century’s first genocide”

“when the media analysts at the Vatican scrutinise the social media traffic of the past seven days, their eyes might well be drawn away from Turkey and the Armenian diaspora towards a cluster of tweets, comments and…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

May 4, 2015

“On Institutional Silence and the Status Quo”

“Institutional silence teaches us that professionalism in medicine is maintaining the status quo. It also means that we are taught that, on issues of race, we cannot be honest about harsh truths. We are not allowed to talk explicitly of white…

Jess Brooks in On Race — isms

May 6, 2015

“Historian on Freddie Gray: Baltimore policing grew from ‘slave patrols’ used to enforce social order”

“During an interview with The Real News last week, Horne, who is Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, argued that…

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These were the top 10 stories published by On Race — isms in May of 2015. You can also dive into daily archives for May of 2015 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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