Racism: The Impact on Health

Study Finds High Rates of Illness Among Washington DC Black Women

In the UK, Gypsies and Travellers experience racism, discrimination and inequality, so I was happy there were no further jokes about them in the latest season of Top Gear.

Finding a Scapegoat When Epidemics Strike: from Jews and the Black Death to ( Read more... )

Just Translate It? How not to carelessly alienate the lucrative Spanish-speaking market.

If you have the stomach for it, cringe and laugh at the idiot remarks of racists, thanks to Something Awful. (Speaking of Español, my fave anecdote is: "I love talking Spanish around non-Spanish speaking people since it usually gets them all riled up. I had ( Read more... )

Fer yer interest: I've posted the links I bookmarked while writing the Time, Unincorporated essay over at kateorman - stuff on race and the Beeb, UK history, and US culture, especially the media representation of African American women ( Read more... )

While I'm here, I'll post some of my perpetually backed-up collection of links.

First some Doctor Who-related news. Firstly:

Doctor Who's Noel Clarke features in black actors photography exhibition

And secondly - if you'd like a peek at Captain Magambo's return, there are lots of photos from the Doctor Who Easter special, Planet of the Dead, ( Read more... )

beccaelizabeth has begun to do what I still haven't got around to: Counting the POC in Torchwood.

And now, some local news. In no particular order:

Lexicographers note the rise of Lebanese Australian English, amongst other "ethnolects".

What the-! Ku Klux Klan recruiting in New Zealand. (I still have to report on our New Zealand trip.)

The guvmint's Diverse ( Read more... )

International Blog Against Racism Week is coming up, starting 6 August. If I can pull my stuff together I hope to write three entries - one about how gingerism and racism are different, one a bit of a roundup of scientific thinking about race these days (ie, that "races" don't really exist), one a summary of the issues for the new Doctor Who ( Read more... )