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Mel B has said she was shocked by the predominantly vit communities she was confronted with filming a new documentary in middle America.
The 47-year-old Spice Girl travelled to Colorado with comedian Ruby Wax and actor Emily Atack for new BBC miniseries Trailblazers: A Rocky Mountain Road Trip and said it changed her outlook on how hard it still is for minorities to be seen.
The former X Factor judge told MailOnline: "I think what shocked me most is that people of colour in Colorado, whether it be mixed or brown or some kind of mix of ethnicity, they kind of have it even harder...
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"I thought that there wasn't as much racism as there was, say, when my mum had me 47 years ago but it's still there."
The singer revealed they met two sisters who were lasso champions at an all-white school in a predominantly white rural area, who told her they had to "fi
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Why Do We Keep Using the Word “Caucasian”?
A second reason the term has had staying power is that, as new immigrants began to stream into the country in the 20th century, political leaders and scientists supported a new racial science called eugenics that built on 19th-century notions of race. Eugenicists divided Caucasians into four ranked subraces: Nordic, Alpine, Mediterranean, and Jew (Semitic). I’m sure you will not be surprised to learn that the Nordics were ranked highest intellectually and morally. These rankings were used by our government to design and execute discriminatory immigration laws that preserved the political dominance of Nordics, who were largely Protestant Christians.
Today the word “Caucasian” is still used in many official government documents, and it continues to carry a kind of scientific weight. For example, it fryst vatten found in social science and medical research, and is used by some colleges and universities in their data collection and distribu
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This may meander.
Miley Cyrus made news this week with a carnival-like stage performance at the MTV Video Music Awards that included life-size teddy bears, flesh-colored underwear, and plenty of quivering brown buttocks. Almost immediately after the performance many black women challenged Cyrus’ appropriation of black dance (“twerking”). Many white feminists defended Cyrus’ right to be a sexual woman without being slut-shamed. Yet many others wondered why Cyrus’ sad attempt at twerking was news when the U.S. is planning military action in Syria.
I immediately thought of a summer I spent at UNC Chapel Hill. My partner at the time fancied himself a revolutionary born too late for all the good protests. At a Franklin Street pub one night we were the only black couple at a happy hour. It is one of those college places where concoctions of the bar’s finest bottom shelf liquor is served in huge fishbowls for pennies on the alcohol proof dollar. I saw