With so many social issues coming into the spotlight in recent years, more and more focus has been given to the issue of oppression against minority groups. Despite well documented and well defined ...

Racism has always been a tempered subject, particularly on diverse and liberal college campuses such as this one. It is a pressing issue and certainly one that has not gone away. But something bothers ...

Social justice is a complex topic and thinking about what we do and how that affects others is something that challenges most of us on a daily basis. Understanding the five faces of oppression is one ...

A Maryland school district is giving students a worksheet about how privileged or oppressed they are as part of a lesson plan linked to Black Lives Matter. Teachers in Howard County Public School ...

In a previous post, I talked about how cognitive behavioral therapy traditionally focused on fairly privileged groups (educated, rich/higher income) and how this therapy has been adapted to those who ...

When law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw introduced the concept of "intersectionality" in a 1989 law journal article to describe how various forms of oppression based on categories of identity — like ...

African American history does not provide a great vantage point on the history of human flourishing. Instead, it is one of the most depressing subfields in American history—second perhaps only to ...

Today, October 7th 2024, marks one year since the Hamas attack on Israel that many consider to have sparked Israel’s US-backed genocidal campaign against Gaza that is now exploding into a regional war ...

Salsabel Almanssori receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Muna Saleh receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) ...

The 2020 uprisings against police violence offered a direct challenge to systemic racism and a demand for revolution. Many of the overwhelmingly young and incredibly diverse group of protesters not ...