This video documents the tragedies of the attempted genocide of the Herero and Nama people of Namibia during the Second Reich. Through these historical records, it is my hope that we would acknowledge and accept the collective oppression that all people have endured and the crimes that we have committed against each other, as our sufferings are not […]
Additional Resources Christopher Alan Bayly, The Raj: India and the British, 1600-1947 Encyclopedia Britannica, The Black War Thomas Carlyle, “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question,” 1849. Sir Francis Galton, Essays in Eugenics, The Eugenics Education Society, 1909. Sir Francis Galton, Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope and Aims, The American Journal of Sociology, (Vol.10 No. 10), July 1904.
Jane Elliot simulates an apartheid regime in a London warehouse with thirty brown and blue eyed volunteers. A challenging and provocative video that shows the painful wrestling that takes place when persons tackle the privileges and social favoritism that our belief in race elicits. Jane Elliot’s brown eye- blue eye experiment demonstrates the ridiculous nature of […]
Oliver Burkeman’s recent blog post, “You’re probably more racist and sexist than you think,” suggests that many of us are actually more prejudiced than we might know, pointing out that it is indicated not by observable behavior but “flourishes below the level of conscious thought.”
As we know, the belief in race and the practice of racism is not limited to the United States. While Greece is known as the world’s first democracy, it seems as if some of its citizens want to be known for something else: hatred. Filmmaker Konstantinos Georgousis captures racist speech, beliefs and practices of a Greek political party […]