How Chinese Migrants Built the Transcontinental Railroad
The Transcontinental Railroad is hailed as one of the country’s greatest engineering feats, but the immigrants who built it have long been ignored.
read moreThe Transcontinental Railroad is hailed as one of the country’s greatest engineering feats, but the immigrants who built it have long been ignored.
read moreThe addition of a MENA category would recognize a community that has been rendered invisible by the government.
read moreAs Chinatowns around the world reel from racial and economic injustice, young women are organizing to save these iconic neighborhoods.
read moreRecent discussions of ethnocentrism often fall short of interpreting the relationship between ethnocentrism and racism.
read moreOn August 8, the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on suspicion of mishandling classified documents (MSN). When activists demanded defunding of the police, conservatives trumpeted their unconditional support for law enforcement. For the same people to now shout “defund the FBI” raises the question of whether “their love of law enforcement only…
read moreReductive statements in political and social discourse don’t help resolve these injustices but further uphold a broken, inequitable system.
read moreSolidarity amongst marginalized groups requires education, organizing, and work but is essential in dismantling white supremacy.
read moreBiased reporting and imagery of the monkeypox outbreak reinforce homophobic and racist stereotypes and mimic a history of stigmatizing disease.
read moreForty years after the racially motivated hate crime against Vincent Chin, Asian communities are still experiencing rampant hate crimes.
read moreThe borders of racial categories are malleable, contested, and change over time. But believing that demographic changes will inevitably cause the racial hierarchy to fade away ignores centuries of evidence to the contrary.
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