Racism - Science topic

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Using Palestine as a case study, Recognition Politics in Settler Colonial States shows how recognition politics operate to legitimize long-standing colonial power structures. In existing scholarship, recognition has been seen as an asset coveted by indigenous communities. This book forwards a new, theoretically ground-breaking perspective. Emile Ba...

This book contends that Wittgenstein’s philosophy—often in conversation with other philosophical approaches—is a helpful resource for seeing religious diversities, for noticing aspects of religions that might otherwise escape one’s attention or be obscured by biases, and for uncovering and contemplating ethical aspects of this acknowledgment. In co...

This book looks at how gendered female bodies and non-phallic bodies function, are rhetoricized as functioning, are made to function, or are functioned upon in two extremized spaces—the private and the public. Using rape and menstruation as the marker of the invisible /private and the female body and non-phallic bodies on the street as the marker o...

University and Süleyman Demirel University Öz Bu çalışma, Afgan öğrenciler özelinde Türkiye'nin uluslararası öğrenciler üzerinden inşa ettiği kamu diplomasisi faaliyetlerinin karşı karşıya olduğu tehditleri ayrımcılık ve ırkçılık algısı temelinde ele almıştır. Çalışmanın bulguları, Afgan öğrencilerin algısında, Türk toplumunda kendilerine yönelik ö...

How technology companies profit from our increasing dependence on digital infrastructure and the privatization of data The Crimes of Digital Capitalism proposes the first comprehensive theory of corporate crime for the digital age. Aitor Jiménez explores the criminal structure of digital capitalism fostered by states and corporations along the sup...

The purpose of this entry is to introduce readers to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and explore its value in the study of political communication. The entry will start by defining CDA and outlining some of its most prominent approaches and key theorists (e.g. Ruth Wodak). It will then detail the theoretical underpinnings and key tenets of CDA, f...

We are often overwhelmed by a sense of frustration when we observe that certain social issues, rather than progressing, seem to stagnate or even worsen–a rise in violence against women, racism, misogyny, and transphobia. These problems, far from disappearing, raise the question of whether we truly advance toward a higher state of civility or are tr...

The sixth IPCC report states that a proper conception of climate justice that can address the complexity of the phenomenon of anthropogenic climate change as a whole requires considering not only one but rather three dimensions of justice today: redistributive, procedural, and recognition dimensions. In this article, my focus is on exploring the la...

Covers key studies published over the last decade documenting the harmful effects of racist technologies, which include how algorithms are racially biased and produce harmful effects.

The article addresses the tension between the internalization of a violent border regime intent on preempting migrant arrivals and the everyday democratic struggle against that regime. It builds on ethnographic fieldwork in Rome to illuminate conflicting political imaginations and existing practices of the already plural, albeit unequal, Italian po...

This chapter introduces the reader to the section, Race, Racism, and Digital Media . Chapters in this section ask the following questions: How does racism manifest online, and what effects does this have on young people, especially young people of color? Does technology contribute to, or challenge, racist structures or racial power dynamics? What t...

This article stems from a larger research project that problematized the implications of the different approaches to anti-racism adopted by state institutions, grassroots social movements, and universities, taking into account the analysis of knowledge production processes about race, racism, and anti-racism. For this study, we analyzed the speeche...

Menstruation affects more than 2 billion people globally, yet many still face barriers to managing it with dignity, essential resources, and social support. The concept of "menstrual justice" broadens the focus from individual challenges to systemic inequalities underlying these barriers, drawing on feminist thought and reproductive justice, especi...

In Their Eyes Were Watching God , Zora Neale Hurston makes visible ‘slow violence’ and ‘sacrifice zones’ to establish a feminist future for her protagonist, Janie. The novel shows a fictional rendering of the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, a storm that Janie survives. In this article, the Author contends that Janie’s survival of the storm – her surmoun...

En México, el racismo se reproduce de múltiples formas. Los pueblos y las comunidades indígenas cotidianamente enfrentan el racismo en los servicios públicos, por ejemplo, en el acceso a la justicia se expresa cuando las personas indígenas no son asistidas por intérpretes en su lengua (y variante lingüística) y cultura, como de actitudes discrimina...

Here we explore the current state of research on online resistance, discuss how future research can build on this body of knowledge, and make recommendations for scholars, activists, and educators invested in understanding and utilizing digital tools to empower online resistance to racism and oppression. Digital tools can amplify resistance efforts...

Social issues of the Environment, environmtal equity and racism, environmtal issues, global earning, green house effect, constitutionalization of environmtal problems.

Background Disparities persist in adverse birth outcomes — preterm birth and small-for-gestational age (SGA) among racialized populations. Previous studies have indicated that voting restrictions are associated with health outcomes, such as access to health insurance and teenage birth rates. This paper examines whether the association between votin...

Despite early optimism that the Internet would reduce race-related issues, scholars have observed that online racism is a significant threat to public health, much like its offline counterpart. This chapter provides a review of the current state of research on online racism and its impact on youth of color (children, adolescents, and young adults)....

Medical discussions around video games usually revolve around addiction, physical health, mental health outcomes, and even acts of violence. The authors of this chapter want to interject race into these discussions to explore the role that race, racialization, and racism have in conversations about gaming. By exploring the social harms of race in g...

Whiteness is fluid, as who is considered ‘white’ changes over time. Like race, whiteness is socially and politically constructed. Whiteness does not just refer to skin color; however, it is an ideology based on beliefs, values, behaviors, habits, and attitudes, which result in the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin color. Whi...

Quantifying the causal effects of race is one of the more controversial and consequential endeavors to have emerged from the causal revolution in the social sciences. The predominant view within the causal inference literature defines the effect of race as the effect of race perception and commonly equates this effect with “disparate treatment” rac...

The UK has seen an outbreak of riots after the death of three children in a knife attack. Misinformation about the suspect's heritage and religion was spread by social media, which was then used to incite violence and racism resulting in damage to property, terror and injuries. We put forward arguments that this was an extremist act and draw on the...

In “Two Cheers to Constitutionalism” Karl Klare and Dennis Davis take us through a longue durée analysis of South Africa’s constitutional democracy, its genesis, essence and implications for the future. Their reflections about the 25 years of South Africa’s constitution coincide with the 30-years milestone since the dawn of the so-called democratic...

The Cultural Evolution Society was established in 2015 to “catalyze a theoretical synthesis” in the scientific study of human culture. As a field of research, cultural evolution took shape in the 1970s and 1980s around the aim of incorporating culture into biology’s modern evolutionary synthesis. Cultural evolution grew around the turn of the twent...

This study observed three advertisements each from Nivea, Dove, and Golden Peacock from the angle of critical discourse analysis. The study is mainly focused on the language used in the advertisements of these brands and the marketing strategies they use to persuade the audience to buy their products. Discourse of these commercials is analyzed usin...

Racism continues to plague Western societies’ institutions, including the healthcare system. Despite the evidence of racism’s negative impacts on healthcare providers, administrators, patients, and families, healthcare workers report hesitancy in taking action to address racism in the workplace. Simulation, with its experiential pedagogy and founda...

Centered on the Achille Mbembe postcolonial theoretical framework of necropolitics, this article will focus on how the coronavirus (COVID-19) has added an additional layer of trauma to already traumatized Black New Orleanians and assert how racism within itself is indeed a pandemic. In short, through challenging the concept of ‘Environmental Justic...

For representatives of ethnic minorities living in Georgia, general education and knowledge of the state language is one of the ways of civil integration, which promotes their participation in political and public life. In this process, a special role is assigned to the school. The priorities of teaching the state language for non-Georgian language...

Criminal law practices in the US, including policing and incarceration, have drawn heavy criticism for their disproportionate impact on black people, particularly black men. At the same time, some feminist scholars and activists advocate for increases in criminal law responses to sexual assault, including expanding criminal statutes to cover more i...

The fact that the coloniality of power and knowledge (Quijano; 2000; Mignolo, 2007, 2011; Grosfoguel, 2013) has only been addressed poorly in Social Work contributes to what Paulo Freire (1970: 12) referred to as “a culture of silence”. A culture of silence exists where those who are oppressed are not heard in society, and where a lack of knowledge...

Introduction In Michigan, the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted Black and Latinx communities. These communities experienced higher rates of exposure, hospitalizations, and deaths compared to Whites. We examine the impact of the pandemic and reasons for the higher burden on communities of color from the perspectives of Black and Latinx community m...

Emerging literature on anti-CRT, anti-DEI efforts in education suggest that these attacks represent a rearticulation of racial ideologies that seek to contain racial progress. Although crafting anti-CRT and anti-DEI policies is primarily conducted through discourse, few studies explore the specific discursive mechanisms used to justify these effort...

A growing body of scholarship reveals that racialized international students in the West are disproportionately vulnerable to exploitation and violence on and off university and college campuses, and in public and private spaces. This harm may be due to the actions of individuals (such as landlords, employers, fellow international students, non-int...

Indigenous people in settler colonies such as Australia, the United States, and Canada are currently engaged in a range of projects to revitalize their languages: to reclaim and restore them in the wake of colonial destruction. Such language revitalization is frequently met with fierce backlash. This article examines the relationship between langua...

There remains a paucity of research examining the barriers to reporting sexual assault among gay and bisexual male assault survivors, despite much higher sexual assault victimization rates for gay and bisexual men. Few researches have examined barriers for gay Latino and/or Black male sexual assault survivors, specifically focusing on the role of r...

Growth in forms of violence germinates from the abject soil of racism and colonialism. This article investigates religious racism in Brazil in the State of Rio de Janeiro through in-depth case studies and published data. First, I analyze how religious racism is utilized as a means to legitimize the demonization and consequent violence directed at A...

Objective: Images of police violence targeting Black Americans is widely broadcasted in the media. Drawing upon theoretical and historical perspectives on vicarious trauma and social identity, we assess whether exposure to images of racialized police violence affects Black and White Americans’ cardiovascular reactivity and concerns about being vict...

Objective to characterize nursing undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic based on intersectionality. Method this is a cross-sectional study with a descriptive approach that characterized the population during the pandemic, covering the years 2020 and 2021. A questionnaire was developed with questions on socioeconomic, labor, cultural,...

Black Americans who use cannabis appear at greater risk for negative cannabis-related outcomes, and cannabis use is more common among individuals who smoke cigarettes. Race-based health disparities concerning cannabis outcomes indicate a need to identify psycho-socio-cultural factors that may play a role in cannabis use and related problems among B...

In assessing whether victim-survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) were acting in self-defence in response to homicide charges, the criminal court favours disciplinary knowledges which erase social context and structural violence. This article argues that these factors are integral to understanding victim-survivors' experiences of IPV. The co...

This article describes the development and implementation of a pedagogical intervention project. The intervention presents a reflection on ethnic-racial relations in current Brazilian times for students of the "Strategic Planning" discipline of the Higher Education Course in Management Processes at a college in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. The object...

The purpose of this interview is to problematize issues s urrounding social, political, and cultural matters that end up affecting how we are, feel, and act, especially those of us who are committed to teaching and to Education, considering we are going through times of uncertainties, unpredictability and exclusions. In this conversation, Dr. Jesuí...

This paper is the first ethnographic study focusing on Asian American women’s experiences in electoral politics. It has three important contributions to the literature on Asian Americans’ panethnicity and political engagement. First, I illuminate the specific gendered and racialized position Asian American women occupy in the US formal political pr...

Objective to characterize nursing undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic based on intersectionality. Method this is a cross-sectional study with a descriptive approach that characterized the population during the pandemic, covering the years 2020 and 2021. A questionnaire was developed with questions on socioeconomic, labor, cultural,...

A pesquisa discute criticamente a disseminação do conhecimento sobre racismo ambiental no horizonte da psicologia, partindo de dados bibliométricos da base SCOPUS, visando expandir a compreensão do tema em contexto de desastres em relação às repercussões no âmbito da saúde mental. Evidencia-se um panorama crescente de estudos sobre racismo ambienta...

Micro-level internationalization offers possibilities to explore different human experiences in international higher education. This is especially crucial given well-reported issues of racism, micro-aggression, and underrepresentation of racially minoritized international academic staff, whose voices remain mostly invisible in internationalization...

In the United States, individuals who identify as Black are severely underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. This underrepresentation begins as early as middle school due to the stereotype of successful STEM students being white and male thus affecting Black students sense of belonging in STEM. The g...

Description To eliminate Indigenous-specific racism and discrimination (ISRD) and make our system safer for Indigenous Peoples, we have developed a process to report and review ISRD events, with a goal to use Indigenous-led restorative approaches for resolution and effect system-level change. This project is aligned with Provincial Health Service A...

This work aims to investigate the discourses materialized in signs in Brazilian Sign Language used to designate white people and black people. We inscribed this research in Dialogical Discourse Analysis studies. As a methodological approach, we searched for the aforementioned signs on four virtual platforms: Google, Youtube, Signbank and National I...

Objective Our objective was to assess potential racial bias within the Risk Analysis Index (RAI). Background Patient risk measures are rarely tested for racial bias. Measures of frailty, like the RAI, need to be evaluated for poor predictive performance among Black patients. Methods Retrospective cohort study using April 2010–March 2019 Veterans...

This book forum discusses Hans Kundnani’s pivotal book on “Eurowhiteness” and the role of race in the EU integration project. It includes three reactions from Stefan Auer, Pavel Barša, and Agnes Gagyi, along with Kundnani’s response. Eurowhiteness skillfully reveals what has been obscured by the European Union as a vehicle of “imperial amnesia”. Th...

The aim of this article is to analyze how the short stories of João Dias and Luís Bernardo Honwana dialogue with African revolutionary movements in the 20th century. By analyzing two short stories, Gênesis and As Mãos dos Pretos, we seek to understand how colonial structures are articulated and how Mozambican intellectuals respond to the historical...

Concerns regarding health outcomes and disparities in treatments offered to Black individuals and women stem from various socioeconomic factors, including income inequality, access to healthcare, and health literacy. Structural racism and implicit gender biases within the healthcare system further exacerbate these inequities, leading to delays in c...

This poem is the result of an activity carried out on November 20, 2023. It is an excerpt from my anti-racist practices and the daily confrontations of an anti-racist educator teaching Afro-Latin American literature at the Federal University of Sergipe. The methodology used was based on critical listening to undergraduate students in the sixth peri...

This paper examines the impact of racial discrimination in hiring on employment, wage, and wealth disparities between black and white workers. Using a labor search-and-matching model with racially prejudiced and non-prejudiced firms, we show that labor market frictions sustain discriminatory practices as an equilibrium outcome. These practices acco...

South-Asian descent men in the United States have been subjected to certain stereotypes. Although they have suffered from racism, the reputation of the South Asian man as hard-working, intelligent and dutiful both to his family and community is well-known. Nonetheless, new times call for new perspectives, and neoliberalism has slightly shaped “the...

In this article, we explore the racialized construction of migrants by the Carabineros, the Chilean national police. Based on a qualitative case study, we show that the representations of Latin American and Caribbean migrants by members of this institution are racialized and mostly framed on ideas of a historically constructed superiority. Drawing...

The aim of this article is to examine the phenomenon of cyberbullying among teenagers. This phenomenon has been defined as behavior that causes emotional harm, carried out using electronic means or as harassment, tormenting, persecution on the Internet. The phenomenon of cyberbullying covers a wide range, its types include cyberstalking, doxing, sw...

Background/Objectives: Particularly in racially and ethnically diverse countries, the necessity of providing individualized care to people seeking diet advice is increasingly recognized and embedded in practice guidelines. Some jurisdictions have a history of colonization with subjugation and marginalization of the Indigenous population, which has...

Influencers can effectively promote products and brands but are also leading personalities who might inspire others to support polarizing and/or prosocial issues (e.g., against gender‐based violence, social inequality, and racism). This research analyses the impact of influencer activism on perceived authenticity and prosocial behaviors, focusing o...

RESUMEN Esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar las construcciones discursivas producidas por las revistas de oposición a la dictadura civil/militar en Chile, APSI y Análisis, en torno a la industria forestal chilena durante los años 1974 a 1986. Mediante un abordaje cualitativo se utiliza un modelo metodológico cualitativo con base en el...

White Benevolence: Racism and Colonial Violence in the Helping Professions is an edited volume with an emphasis identifying the historical foundation for current environments of social inequality and social injustice. The 21 au- thors had a shared vision. All had a desire to enhance critical race theory, antiracism theory, anticolonialism theory an...

This paper seeks to discuss the connections between racism and the mathematics education Black students receive in the urban mathematics classroom in the city of Newark. Racism continues to exist in this world and has been reformed in systematic ways in our society, and with these reforms there exists inequality in quality mathematics education off...

This article begins by arguing that the UK race riots of August 2024 had their own distinct – and especially worrisome – sociological dynamics when it came to the disorder that occurred in Northern Ireland. The upsurge in race hate and racism has to be viewed in the context of the continuing existence of loyalist paramilitary groups and most especi...

Malaysia has long championed itself as a beacon of multicultural harmony, where people of diverse races and religions coexist. However, beneath this surface lies a complex web of racialized policies and political contradictions that reflect deep-seated structural racism.

Background The aging population in the USA is projected to increase significantly, with a corresponding rise in dementia cases, particularly among racial minorities. This study examines the key drivers of racial disparities in dementia risk among older Black adults in the St. Louis area, a region characterized by entrenched structural racism. Utili...

Background Equitable access to vaccination remains a concern, particularly among population groups made structurally vulnerable. These population groups reflect the diversity of communities that are confronted with structural barriers caused by systemic racism and oppression and result in them experiencing suffer disadvantage and discrimination bas...

Examining the history of the Black Loyalists is essential to Black Canadian history. More significantly is examining the social inequality the Black Loyalists faced in the past. Much of the early history of the Black Loyalists is shaped by the institution of slavery. The institution of slavery is maintained by ideologies and traditions that justify...

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether simulation-based education promotes anti-racism learning among nursing students. METHODS: This descriptive qualitative study explored how simulation-based education could support anti-racism education in undergraduate nursing curricula. The study consisted of three parts: (a) journal entries, (b) anti-racism workshop...

Malaysia’s long-standing stance on racial policies and its prioritization of Malay supremacy have sparked heated debates domestically and internationally. While the country loudly proclaims its support for Palestinian rights, its refusal to join the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) South Africa v. Israel case raises eyebrows about its true comm...

This article explores urban Romani song in southern Romania and how ethnicity and gender inform the repertoire and style of two 20th-century female vocalists: Romica Puceanu and Gabi Luncǎ. Both established their renown during the communist period, initially at in-group weddings in addition to family and other social gatherings and eventually at Ro...

This chapter explores the concept of social and emotional well-being (SEWB) as a foundational framework for understanding health among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Unlike Western medical models, which focus primarily on individual pathology, SEWB adopts a holistic approach, emphasizing the interconnectedness of physical, menta...

Background Many children in the United States are victims of bullying; many of the victimized retaliate, aggressively bullying those who have bullied them. Objective Applying the multiple disadvantage model, this U.S.–based secondary study of data describing bullied children’s own perpetration of bullying examined this behavior’s relationship to 5...

Creating collections and archives of genres such as csardas, parallel to holdings of Romantic compositions based on those styles, affords a means for contemporary Romani performance to provoke institutional recognition of Roma’s historical influence on art music. This essay analyzes an instance of such a project at Oberlin College & Conservatory, w...

Introduction This paper reviews the scientific basis and reports initial implementation results of California’s Black Infant Health Program, a statewide group-based program with complementary one-on-one life planning to improve maternal and infant health among Black mothers and birthing persons. Methods Descriptive analyses were conducted at the p...

Scientific advances are historically linked to colonial actions of past empires resulting in knowledge production biased towards the West with minimal representation of scholars of other ethnicities than White in science curricula in Higher Education (HE). Calls to decolonise science curricula seek to diversify content by acknowledging the role of...

A two-eyed seeing approach considered Indigenous knowledge and Western science towards eco–health, reconciliation and land back with Fort William First Nation (FWFN) in Ontario, Canada. To map traditional land use, occupancy, and ecological knowledge, we interviewed 49 FWFN members about their hunting, fishing, trapping, plant harvesting, cultural...

The changes brought about by digital transformation have the potential to reconfigure marketing practices. One of the essential elements of this new dynamic imposed by technology is the field of customer relationships, where brands and consumers interact directly through online platforms. The objective of this study is to identify the crisis manage...

For most people, tackling the embodied consequences of settler colonialism, racism, and homophobia would be at odds with cracking self-deprecating jokes and coming up with low brow play on words revolving too frequently around male genitalia. Originally from the Viejas reservation in what is today San Diego, California, Kumeyaay poet, screenwriter,...

Kinship caregivers (e.g., grandparents raising grandchildren) have been increasing over the last several decades. Approximately 3.5 million grandparents and other relatives are the primary caregivers for their related children, and African Americans are more likely to be kinship caregivers than persons from other groups. Kinship caregivers face uni...

In 1917, the US Department of Labor launched a new section: the Division of Negro Economics (DNE). Established to study black labor in the context of the Great Migration and staffed completely by black social scientists and social workers, the division offers a window onto the origins and meaning of black economics in the United States. During an a...

Risk and protective factors for psychiatric illnesses are linked to distinct structural and functional changes in the brain. Further, the prevalence of these factors varies across sexes and genders, yet the distinct and joint effects of sex and gender in this context have not been extensively characterized. This suggests that risk and protective fa...

In this article, we chart some of the detrimental emotional impacts of what we consider a human disaster: denying Black people’s humanity. We focus on the highly publicized and violent killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers in 2020: 9 minutes and 29 seconds of state-sanctioned, anti-Black violence that was filmed and circulated glob...

This article examines two Navajo Nation (Native American) female poets’ works in the context of environmental studies, ecopoetics and climate change. Luci Tapahonso and Laura Tohe remain critically neglected female poet laureates of the Navajo Nation for a variety of potential reasons mentioned herein. By considering ecopoetics and concerns with cl...

Objectives: COVID-19 disproportionately affected people of Black ethnicities whilst also negatively affecting the health, wellbeing and livelihoods of people living with HIV. This may have been amplified by pre-existing socioeconomic marginalisation, poorer health, and structural racism. Despite being disproportionately affected by the pandemic, li...

Background Addressing a lack of diversity in the physician workforce is a priority in the Canadian healthcare system. Data describing demographics of residents and their experiences of discrimination, harassment, and racism at work are incomplete. The objective of this work was to describe the demographics and perceptions of workplace discriminatio...

While Facebook has become a central element of digital culture, its impact on the mental health of African American youth remains underexplored, particularly in relation to intersecting marginalized identities. Despite extensive research on social media and youth well-being, there is a significant gap in understanding how Facebook contributes to me...

Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1952) presents a radical cognitive analysis of how colonialism disturbs the psyche, leading to alienation as much from one’s own identity as from others. Through the lens of psychoanalytic theory and concepts of cognitive psychology, Fanon examines how the colonized individual internalizes racial stereotypes...

Caste, a system of social division based on inherited status, has a long history in South Asia. At present, Caste is no longer specific to any religion or region, having been exported to various countries by the South-Asian diaspora, often lacking the equality framework required to address Caste-based discrimination. Caste and race are closely inte...

In this introduction to the special issue on diverse methods for cultural identity, we begin by addressing the evolving complexities of defining oneself amidst modern globalization and immigration. We then preview the current collection of papers, which collectively showcase the complexity of cultural identity by exploring how people, especially ad...

Background Palliative care (PC) has the potential to alleviate suffering and enhance quality of life for patients with serious progressive diseases; however, access to PC remains unequal across different populations. Objective This scoping review aimed to systematically examine the literature on: (1) the primary contributors to inequity in accessi...

É possível identificar as(os) psicoterapeutas competentes daquelas e daqueles que não o são. A teoria da competência multicultural tem dado conta de explicar o porquê algumas e alguns psicoterapeutas se saem melhor que outras(os), no trabalho com pessoas negras. O objetivo deste estudo foi explorar, numa análise temática, a atuação de psicólogas(os...

Queer (i.e., gay, bisexual, or another sexual minority identity) Asian American men experience unique challenges and strengths related to their social identities at the intersection of race and sexual orientation. While a sizable body of research has shown how this population faces racism within the broader queer community, there is little research...

While racial bias in the media has faced intense scrutiny, less attention has been paid to consumers’ personal biases when interacting with media content. Building on the literature on aversive racism, we investigate how consumers’ racial biases manifest in their responses to social media content based on race and other facial characteristics of in...

In the United States, colorectal cancer (CRC) rates reported from 2015-2019 revealed that CRC was the 3rd most commonly diagnosed cancer among men and women and 2nd highest in terms of cancer-related deaths among men 50 years of age or younger. Artificial intelligence (AI), through the mode of machine learning (ML) models, is a novel approach for s...

Qualitative research surrounding the impacts of COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy has been extensively studied in the European context; however, limited research has been conducted within communities in the Australian context. This research paper highlights the issues experienced by culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) members during the COVID...