Category Archives: Immigration

We Are All Africans

by Leave a comment

An impressively interdisciplinary team of geneticists, biological anthropologists, archaeologists, and geologists has just published an article detailing the genetic makeup of a man who lived in Ethiopia some 4,500 years ago. Why is this relevant today? The analysis shows close genetic ties between some contemporary Sardinian farmers, German farmers from

Africa, Archaeology, Biological anthropology, Current Issues, Donald Trump, Far right, Genetics, Humans as a social species, Immigration, Marine LePen, Racism Read more

Why Not “Je Suis Lassana”?

by 2 comments

Much of the Western world has expressed solidarity with the right to publish offensive cartoons by identifying with the cartoonists at the iconoclastic weekly, Charlie Hebdo, who were killed by Islamicist fundamentalists. To date, the Je Suis Charlie Facebook page has garnered some 315,000 “Likes.” Multilingual “I am Charlie” mottos

Anti-Semitism, Charlie Hebdo, Citizenship, Current Issues, Immigration, Islamophobia, Othering, Paris, Racism, Social justice Read more
Recent Entries »