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From Model Minority to Political Target: The Indian American Experience 

From Model Minority to Political Target: The Indian American Experience 

On February 3, 2026, dozens of white Texans donning “America First” hats, Marvel Punisher masks, and other American right-wing symbols poured into a Frisco, Texas city council meeting to protest what...
Reimagining Race and America: An Interview with Eddie Glaude Jr.

Reimagining Race and America: An Interview with Eddie Glaude Jr.

Eddie Glaude Jr. is a James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. In addition to being a renowned scholar, he is a public intellectual an...
Digital Blackface is Minimizing White Response to Violence Against Black Women

Digital Blackface is Minimizing White Response to Violence Against Black Women

Digital blackface and misogynoir in the media desensitize white Americans to violence against Black women. Thus, the lack of publicity for the disappearance of Lauren Smith-Fields.
Environmental Racism in Louisiana: Legislative Ambivalence Persists More Than a Decade After Katrina

Environmental Racism in Louisiana: Legislative Ambivalence Persists More Than a Decade After Katrina

“Hey! We need more water! We need help!”  Thousands of people, pressed against metal barricades, shouted similar cries at the Louisiana National Guard in the Superdome lockdown after Hurricane Katrina...

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Equality is Not a Zero Sum Game

Equality is Not a Zero Sum Game

hen New York City’s highly selective public schools released their admissions breakdown for the incoming freshman class in March, Stuyvesant High School gained national attention for admitting only 7...
Algorithms and Bias in the Digital Age

Algorithms and Bias in the Digital Age

lgorithms have been created in a way that both reflects and perpetuates biases, particularly those regarding race and gender. In the past, algorithms have been perceived as neutral; algorithms come fr...
When the Metrics Don’t Add Up: Understanding the Hispanic Paradox

When the Metrics Don’t Add Up: Understanding the Hispanic Paradox

ace is one of the most visible and pressing sources of inequity among Americans, particularly in its effect on health outcomes. Perhaps the most well known instance of racial health disparity lies in...
Televised Trauma

Televised Trauma

n the age of 24-hour news cycles, media companies seek increasingly appalling and shocking images to captivate the attention of viewers. However, these companies’ objectives of publishing the most sen...
Battle of Trenton 2.0: Cannabis Legalization and Racial Justice

Battle of Trenton 2.0: Cannabis Legalization and Racial Justice

Initially introduced to the United States by Mexican immigrants, legal cannabis has flourished in America in recent decades. Although Americans are known for their uniquely hedonistic perspective on t...
Racist Flyers at Brown University

Racist Flyers at Brown University

On February 5, Providence community advocates, leaders, and residents gathered to encourage unity and condemn bigotry in response to racist flyers that were disseminated near Brown University’s campus...
The Lost Legacy of Ulysses Grant

The Lost Legacy of Ulysses Grant

on Chernow, historian and author of Hamilton (the main influence for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed Broadway musical), recently released a biography of Ulysses S. Grant, Union Commander and later Pres...
Vanessa German’s Art House: A Stronghold Against Gentrification

Vanessa German’s Art House: A Stronghold Against Gentrification

anessa German’s signature sculptures, or “contemporary power figures”, charge in like an army of truth, sorrow and resilience; standing upon the streets of the historically black neighborhood of Homew...

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“Black Korea” and the Thrust of Collective Trauma

“Black Korea” and the Thrust of Collective Trauma

one-penny countin’ motherfuckers / that make a nigga made enough to cause a little ruckus / Thinkin’ every brother in the world’s out to take / So they watch every damn move that I make,” says Ice Cub...
Lead Astray: Environmental Regulation and Racism

Lead Astray: Environmental Regulation and Racism

the most defining characteristic of racism in the United States is its pervasiveness. It goes beyond personal attitudes and seeps into almost all institutional functions. Environmental policy and regu...
On Separating Art from Artist: Nate Parker and The Birth of a Nation

On Separating Art from Artist: Nate Parker and The Birth of a Nation

the art from the artist” is an almost impossible — yet arguably necessary — strategy many fans and critics must employ to enjoy artistic beauty created by flawed human beings. People yearn to idealize...
Black Lives Matter: Collective Mourning to Collective Action

Black Lives Matter: Collective Mourning to Collective Action

Martin. Michael Brown. Sandra Bland. Freddie Gray. Eric Garner. Terrence Crutcher. The names of these murdered black individuals, of those who wrongfully fell before their time, continue to echo throu...
Imprecise Federal Racial Categories Damage More Than Just Data

Imprecise Federal Racial Categories Damage More Than Just Data

he Office of Management and Budget was formed in 1970 to help “serve the President of the United States in implementing his vision across the Executive Branch,” according to their official mission sta...
Unfair and Lovely: The No Filter Approach to Natural Skin Color

Unfair and Lovely: The No Filter Approach to Natural Skin Color

ne hashtag, three words: #unfairandlovely. Although the phrase seems minimal, the “Unfair and Lovely” campaign, started by University of Texas student Pax Jones, is a critical spin on the Indian Fair...
Borders and Identities

Borders and Identities

or the last several months, borders have been at the forefront of politics and culture: Donald Trump infamously promised to erect a wall with “a big, fat, beautiful door” on the border separating the...
The Elusive Nature of the Hispanic Category

The Elusive Nature of the Hispanic Category

2060, 115 percent more Americans will be of Hispanic origin than in 2015. Consequently, pundits identify “the Hispanic vote” as the next frontier for ensuring political success. Political elites have...
Race, Sports, and the Aftermath of Super Bowl 50

Race, Sports, and the Aftermath of Super Bowl 50

Bowl 50 was widely criticized as a tedious and underwhelming culmination of the 2015 season. The game drew three million fewer spectators than last year, with peak viewership at 115 million during the...
Beyond the Oscars: Probing the Unrepresentative Film Industry

Beyond the Oscars: Probing the Unrepresentative Film Industry

year, the front three or four rows of the Dolby Theater, the permanent home of the Academy Awards, are reserved for nominees, past winners and their dates. As the lights dim the ceremony begins, and w...