Back in the 1940s, Kenneth and Mamie Clark – a husband-and-wife team of psychology researchers – used dolls to investigate how young Black children viewed their racial identities. They found that given a choice between ...
In 1998’s Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the last Star Trek movie to feature the members of the cast of the original series, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) tells the Chancellor of the Klingon ...
When I read about Amy Cooper, the woman in Central Park who called the police on a black birder because he’d asked her to leash her out-of-control dog, I was horrified. But, as a sociolinguist ...