Today’s guest is Ipsita Chatterjee, a human geographer interested in the economic, cultural, and geopolitical impacts of globalization. Ipsita is also a prolific author, and her latest book “The Alt-Right Movement: Dissecting Racism, Patriarchy and Anti-immigrant Xenophobia” served as the basis of our discussion. To help me better understand this phenomenon, she took me through…
We marked the International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this year with the theme ‘Youth standing up against racism’. It seems only right, therefore, to acknowledge the Black Lives Matter demonstrations that erupted across the world in 2020. Research shows that Generation Z and Millennials were at the forefront of the movement and…
Loved by children for generations, Black Pete has become a point of dispute for the Dutch. A harmless tradition or a racist hangover from the colonial past?
By Reina Capitle
“So… where are you from?”
“I am Spanish.”
“But, where are you really from?”
“Well, I was born and raised in Spain but both my mom and dad are Filipino.”
“Oh, now it makes sense, you’re from the Philippines.”
