Tag: race
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Rashid Rose: The over-representation of Blacks in the Mental Health System
The majority of Caucasians believed Africans to be inferior (Billinsley 1968) with the Encyclopaedia Britannia (1884) defined the word Negro as referring to Africans who “occupied the lowest position of the evolutionary scale”. Accordingly, it was legally and socially permissible for slave owners to subject slaves to any type of physical force (Myrdal 1962). After…
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Rashid Rose: The Two Processes for Reparations
The need for Reparations has been debated over the past decade with some degree of conviction and common sense but a limited amount of success. This discussion is taking place in the Caribbean, UK and in the USA among people of African origin but seems to have a strong emphasis on financial redress without considering any…
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Abu Kwanza: The downplay of anti-blackness within the Muslim community
Unconscious bias, a subject in psychological studies where people associate negative things with blackness and positive things with whiteness, is a concept that has been well documented. The nature of this perception is demonstrated by a controversial advertisement developed for Benetton. The ad entailed a black man and a white man handcuffed together. The fashion…
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