Category Race & Ethnicity

News and opinion on race and ethnicity from The Canadian Progressive.

White supremacy is the root of all race-related violence in the US

The white supremacy at the heart of recent instances of anti-Asian and anti-Black racism and egregious violence in the United States "does not require a white person to perpetuate it," argues Jennifer Ho, a professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

The Canadian Progressive
April 15, 2021

Stop Blaming Tuskegee, Critics Say. It’s Not an ‘Excuse’ for Current Medical Racism.

The "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," a U.S. government-sponsored unethical study on 399 Black men from Alabama that was conducted between 1932 and 1972, is not responsible for current medical racism, health inequities and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

The Canadian Progressive
April 13, 2021

Official Information About COVID-19 Is Reaching Fewer Black People on Facebook

According to data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project, there are major disparities in who is shown public health information about the pandemic.

The Canadian Progressive
March 28, 2021

How COVID-19 exposed China’s anti-Black racism

Draconian containment measures introduced by Chinese authorities as the COVID-19 pandemic spread in early 2020 exposed Chinese society's underlying anti-Black African racism, sexism, toxic masculinity, and conservative nationalism.

The Canadian Progressive
March 3, 2021

How Black people in the 19th century used photography as a tool for social change

As photography technologies became widely available in the 19th century, Black Americans used the art of photography to empower themselves, facilitate social change, counteract racist caricatures, and "demonstrate dignity in the Black experience."

The Canadian Progressive
March 2, 2021

Global white supremacy cult: How the South African radical Right bolsters US extremism

South African white supremacists have long bolstered global white victimhood, anti-Black racism, far right extremism and QAnon conspiracy theories. They participated in the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the United States Capitol by pro-Trump white nationalists, far-right extremists, white supremacists and QAnon adherents.

The Canadian Progressive
February 23, 2021

Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn

Research by The Markup found that searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls,” “Latina girls,” and “Asian Girls” led to pornographic content, and searching for “White girls” returned no suggestions, indicating "a racial bias that equated people of color with objectified sexualization while exempting White people from any associations whatsoever."

The Canadian Progressive
January 31, 2021

US Capitol protesters, egged on by Trump, are part of a long history of white supremacists hearing politicians’ words as encouragement

Last week's assault on the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump white nationalists, far-right extremists, QAnon adherents, and members of white supremacy groups "reflects a long history" of U.S. political leaders encouraging deadly white supremacist violence against democratic governments, writes Shannon M. Smith, a historian of protests and Reconstruction.

The Canadian Progressive
January 12, 2021