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Wilmot James Co-Published a Scholarly Article: COVID-19 vaccine equity in Africa

Senior Research Scholar Wilmot James co-published a scholarly article with Natasha Turyasingura and Sten H. Vermund in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

COVID-19 vaccine equity in Africa

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Audra Simpson: Indigenous identity theft must stop

Professor Audra Simpson published an Op-Ed in Boston Globe.

White women who lie about their heritage reap untold benefits, shoving Native women from the center of their own stories and lives

Ester Fuchs referenced in City Limits

‘To a Better City’: City Limits’ Gala Recap

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Jeffrey Sachs: Everyone’s Wrong About FIRE: The organization to defend campus free speech has its problems, but they’re not what critics think.

Jeffrey Sachs wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is blessed with terrible critics. As its public profile has risen sharply in recent years, so has the volume of criticism against it. Unfortunately, those critiques are almost uniformly bad.

Wilmot James: Where did this story that Afrikaans is a white person’s language come from?

Professor and Senior Research Scholar Wilmot James wrote an article in Daily Maverick

The sterile debate about whether Afrikaans is an indigenous language (of course it is) or not defines the language as a problem rather than as an opportunity to craft and shape an inclusive South African expressionism.

Mae Ngai featured in conversation with Andrew Keen on Literary Hub

Professor Mae Ngai was featured in a conversation on Keen On, a series which is part of Literary Hub

The Chinese Question: Gold Rushes, Migration, and the Global Politics and Economics of Race

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Mae Ngai, co-author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics.