Series: Debating Race

Is Affirmative Action Fair? by Natasha Warikoo explores the contentious issue of affirmative action in college admissions – the consideration of an applicant's status as part of an underrepresented group during selection decisions. This policy has been the subject of heated public debate. Some argue that it undermines racial equity, while others believe it promotes equal opportunity in a racially...

Life for too many African American men is a battle with extreme disadvantage, a fight for survival, and a struggle for dignity in a society which labels them a "problem." For more than 30 years, most of the effort put toward addressing the crisis of Black men has centred on what they must do to improve their condition. Without neglecting...

The question of free speech is never far from the headlines and frequently declared to be in crisis. Starting from the observation that such debates so often focus on what can and cannot be said in relation to race, Gavan Titley asks why racism has become so central to intense disputes about the status and remit of freedom of speech....

The question of free speech is never far from the headlines and is frequently declared to be in crisis. Starting from the observation that such debates so often focus on what can and cannot be said in relation to race, Gavan Titley asks why racism has become so central to intense disputes about the status and remit of freedom of...

Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural inequality of races. The eugenic science of the early twentieth century...