racism

A forest. Credit: Bala Karthikeyan and Pavan Guda

A Forest Is a Story, and Two New Books Narrate It Through the Perfect Eyes

Neha Sinha 18/07/2018

In India, forest-dwellers are seen in binaries, sidelining a...

Winter in Peking University, Beijing. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

If ‘Study in India’ Is to Be a Hit, We Must Get Right What China Has Perfected

Pushkar 15/05/2018

IIT graduates may enjoy a healthy reputation in Silicon...

Even as National Geographic's new undertaking argues that race has no biological basis, the organisation is aggressively selling a product that uses genetics to quantify an individual’s membership in ancestral categories. Credit: Crisena Allen/ Flickr CC BY SA 2.0

For National Geographic, an Exploration of Race (and Commercial Opportunity)

Michael Schulson, Undark Magazine 12/04/2018

That the magazine’s spotlight on race comes coupled with...

Anti-cholera inoculation in Calcutta in 1894. Credit: Wellcome Collection, CC BY-SA

Decolonise Science – Time to End Another Imperial Era

Rohan Deb Roy 12/04/2018

Since its birth around the same time as Europeans...

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Brexit Is UK’s Chance to Get Rid of the Illogical Ban on Human Cloning

Hugh McLachlan 22/02/2018

There is a common misunderstanding that human cloning is...

Cheddar Man's facial reconstruction. Credit: Channel 4

Dark Skin of its Earliest Inhabitants is Challenging the Way Britain Thinks of Race

The Wire Staff 15/02/2018

The finding challenges the assumption that Britishers were always...

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Debate: Whalers of Old Aren’t Like Astronauts Because of the Anxieties of Frontiers

Subhadeepta Ray 28/01/2018

The interplay between biology and culture reflects racial anxieties...