Tag: racism

An essay on growing up in the South, legacy, and a place rooted in white supremacy.

In a progressive New Jersey community, racial solidarity is complicated.

“A young guy has received admission into two American universities, but still gets rejected. One boy from my queue is given the visa. His smile is so luminous it is like he’s going straight to heaven. “

It’s against the law to examine someone without their consent — but one ER doctor’s colleagues do it anyway.

“You may start off with Professor X but Magneto got a fucking point.”

“I only know that it is incredibly sad to admit to your children that you’ve been seeing videos of black men being killed since you were their age and that you haven’t been able to stop it.”

When “Who gets to go jogging without getting shot?” is an actual question a society has to ask, that society is fundamentally flawed.

“We are going to turn America around.”

The soft-focus Britain of Downton Abbey bears little resemblance to the real Britain collapsing under the weight of racism, austerity, and COVID-19. As Brexit plods on, it’s time for an honest reckoning of the history and future of this outsize little island.

“What are you carrying dormant in your body that springs up when confronted with Black joy, Black power, Black brilliance, Black Blackness in the world?”

The mental and physical toll of life in a white supremacist state is unavoidable for BIPOC, even if it manifests differently for different people.

Bernice L. McFadden ruminates on all the things her mother has endured only to find herself spending her golden years in the midst of a deadly plague and state-sanctioned racism.

Shaheen Pasha explores how the trauma of a loved one’s incarceration unravels her carefully planned-out existence, and sets her on a new, unexpected path to find meaning in the meaningless.

Essaying on the way white supremacy shapes life.

“Even with a preponderance of evidence and testimonies, every man on trial got away with murder. This fact was not front-page news but tucked beneath odd stories called ‘Flashes of Life.'”

In the face of chronic pain, invisible illness, and medical discrimination, Talia Hibbert turned to tatoos to reclaim ownership of her body.

Cancel culture suggests we can change the world from the outside in, but the misogyny and racism are coming from inside the house.

Ayşegül Savaş calls into question a kind of racism in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, and laments the liberal reluctance to rebuke discrimination outright, regardless of its targets.

Hells to the yes, says I.

After leaving fundamentalism, Eve Ettinger grapples with the loaded theological heritage of evangelical personal finance teachings.

Too Japanese for Americans and too American for the Japanese, one New Jersey native traces the influence of racism on her parents’ careers and her own life.

Canada’s old white publishing institutions are a lesson in what happens when your media industry contracts: journalism no longer serves the reality of the country.

Reexamining the motives of Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers.

Born with serious CEO aspirations, Nicole Cyrus found her role model in a white kid from an ’80s sitcom.

Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.

When you read “influencer,” do you think “white woman”? That’s not a surprise: the stereotypes originally established offline are reaffirmed on social media by the same systems.

“I wondered if Katrina was really a 14-year old boy named Emmett.”

After Jay Deitcher sits silent as his wife is verbally assaulted by his father’s racist friend, he grapples with the ways his family has been muted by trauma.

“I was looking for texts that seem to go the extra mile in hiding something — texts that almost seem to be begging to be interpreted in terms of what’s not being said.”

Should white critics cover black culture? Only if they’re able to own their whiteness.