The racial classification of mixed-race people has often been presumed to follow hypo- or hyperdescent rules, where they were assigned either their lower- higher-status monoracial ancestor group. This simple framework, however, does not capture actual patterns self-identification in contemporary societies with multiple racialized groups and numerous combinations. Elaborating on previous concept...

This article explores the factors that affect the creation of racial classifications and how they are reflected in the Census categories, particularly in regard to the classification of Hispanics. The article argues that an increase in racial minorities will not solely stop white racial domination of political power structures because of entrenched racial policies and practices. To end this dom...

Constructed in the 1850s with heavy British involvement, Egyptian railway was first to be built a non-European Mediterranean territory. Britain – which neither financed nor owned this nonetheless came view it as possession. Originally envisioned highway for connecting Red Sea and India, became means unto itself Britain’s drive foothold Egypt. Taking place period of both expanding influence tech...

This article explores how a Powellite form of nostalgia – named for the anti-immigration politics former British MP Enoch Powell connects seemingly contradictory nationalist narratives known as Global Britain and Little England. While is typically aligned with an expansive buccaneering national biography, latter held to operate via more defensive exclusionary imaginary. challenges such binary d...

This article addresses a familiar dilemma in discussions of experimental forms political practice the context state racism. On one hand, predominant modes engaging with power through strategically representing claims to actors often re-affirm categories domination, mimic hierarchies that radical intend overcome, and tend become invested reformism limits horizon change. other, prefigurative poli...

BACKGROUND Racism and racial discrimination are increasingly acknowledged as a critical determinant of health and health inequalities. However, patterns and impacts of racial discrimination among children and adolescents remain under-investigated, including how different experiences of racial discrimination co-occur and influence health and development over time. This study examines association...

1. Initiation of Oppression: At an early point in time, the European colonialists established hierarchical group relations with the peoples they oppressed and exploited for their land and labor. Soon this hierarchy of oppression was explained in racial terms. The subordinated groups were viewed as biologically and culturally inferior races. This racialized oppression has never been eradicated a...

Doris Lessing’s “The Grass Is Singing” depicts British expatriates’ migration experiences accommodated into their new living and social surroundings in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to highlight the dilemmatic situation full of shocks hardships those migrants confronted with lives as a result dynamic colonial identities on African land. The purpose this paper is expound racial discrimination...

Prior research indicates that far-right political groups tend to be disproportionately composed of and supported by white people. Drawing off the group identity developmental literature, we add theoretical clarity this relationship. We argue a salient racial motivates people explore social contexts affirm value being white. Many these (e.g., conservative media) reinforce instill beliefs in cons...

New approaches to the study of ocular dominance development, a model system for the development of neural architecture, indicate that eye-specific columns in primary visual cortex emerge substantially before the onset of the critical period, during which neural connections can be altered by visual experience. The timing, speed and specificity of column emergence implicate molecular patterning m...