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... )

Had a little moment of hope and pride, reading this morning about practical responses to the Sydney race riot of 2005: Anglo women volunteered as English teachers, Muslim women volunteered as surf lifesavers.

Then Tony Abbot went and &*%*&%ed it up for me by characterising migrants as criminals. Thanks for that, mate. ("Migrants" here is code for ( Read more... )

Since I'm here, have some history from Down Under.

Australia honours Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels - thousands of Papua New Guinean civilians who helped Australian troops during WWII. (Better late than never, I suppose.)

Brown to apologise to care home children sent to Australia and Canada: to ensure a supply of "white stock", poor children were sent from ( Read more... )

A side note on the attacks on Indian students. Columnist Paul Sheehan obviously breathed a sigh of relief when at least some of the violence was attributed to non-White Australians. This disproves "the misconception that Indians in this country have become the frequent victims of violent white racism," writes Sheehan. "This misconception has ( Read more... )

The Baxter Detention Centre closed on Monday. "It stopped overt protest but it didn't stop the crippling psychological damage of detention," [researcher] Dr Steel said. "In terms of the wellbeing of detainees, they couldn't see out, they could only see up."

A Sydney pub was busted for refusing entry to islanders (such as Samoans and Maori) and ( Read more... )