Racist dreams and municipal budgets: women representing a culturally racist party in local politics

Feminist theory, feminist and anti-racist politics, and restorative justice

Attributing Harm to Racist Speech

The racist patient.

TO THE EDITOR: Twenty-five years ago, I faced a situation similar to Jain’s (1). My experience involved a horrid anti-Semite; I was raised with Holocaust survivors. I finally asked my attending to be reassigned. He said that I was a physician and must fulfill my responsibilities to my patient regardless of who and what he was. My personal feelings were immaterial. My attending was right. Jain’s...

Explaining Perceptions of Racist Speech

This two-part investigation evaluated four different explanations potentially governing theory on deprecating speech: social identity, expectancy violation, complexity-extremity, and desensitization. To test the descriptive and predictive usefulness of the first three theories, 614 participants made attributions of the perceived harm of actual racist slurs targeted at African, Asian, or Hispani...

Unconscious racist bias: barrier to a diverse nursing faculty.