Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 8/2021

Challenging racism

Sinti and Roma

Sinti and Roma demand equality and participation

Racism and antiziganism are deeply rooted in European societies

Discrimination

Indonesia’s history of othering

Suharto’s authoritarian rule made life hard for Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese

Skin-whitening products

Why lighter complexions are associated with higher status

The trade in skin-whitening creams is a sign of internalised racist ideas of beauty

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Inequality

A tale of rich and poor

African income disparities hamper the growth of a middle class

Online forum

#DalitLivesMatterNepal

Campaigning online for Dalit rights

Tribalism

Tribalism hides the gap between rich and poor

Kenya’s underlying class struggle needs to be addressed

Prejudice

Mexico’s racial divide

Mexico’s ideology of mestizaje, or racial mixing, obscures ingrained racism

Discrimination

Indonesia’s ethnic resentments

In spite of legal protections, Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese still face discrimination

Our view

Decoupling prosperity from skin colour

Racism persists because marginalised communities are largely excluded from positions of leadership

Caste-based discrimination

Nepal must do much more to protect most vulnerable community

Despite legal protections, Nepal’s Dalits suffer serious discrimination

Segregation

Revisiting South Africa’s segregationist past

Apartheid was a racist system designed to keep people of different skin colour “apart” in South Africa.

Blog

Anti-racists’ two-front struggle

Lessons from the history of racist ideas in the USA

Identity politics

Why Kenya’s president has fallen out with his deputy

Kenya is stuck in tribalism, and calls for national unity are all too often manipulative