Racism Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/tag/racism/ Opinion, Lifestyle, Arts, Music #TIA Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:21:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-512x512-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Racism Archives | This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/tag/racism/ 32 32 67616479 Western media outlets are trying to fix their racist, stereotypical coverage of Africa. Is it time African media did the same? https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/western-media-outlets-are-trying-to-fix-their-racist-stereotypical-coverage-of-africa-is-it-time-african-media-did-the-same/ https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/western-media-outlets-are-trying-to-fix-their-racist-stereotypical-coverage-of-africa-is-it-time-african-media-did-the-same/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:21:59 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573612 African news media have continued many of the damaging norms of how western media report on the continent. It’s time for a rethink.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/western-media-outlets-are-trying-to-fix-their-racist-stereotypical-coverage-of-africa-is-it-time-african-media-did-the-same/feed/ 0 573612 Black and Female in Corporate America – “The Other Black Girl” TV show review https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/the-other-black-girl-walks-viewers-through-black-trauma-and-systemic-racism-at-the-workplace/ https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/the-other-black-girl-walks-viewers-through-black-trauma-and-systemic-racism-at-the-workplace/?noamp=mobile#respond Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:17:12 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573312 The Other Black Girl walks viewers through black trauma and systemic racism at the workplace. Based on Zakiya Dalila Harris’ novel of the same title, the Hulu show explores the place of femininity and the black woman in corporate America. To what extent, Reviewer Andrew Chatora asks, does one compromise themselves to curry favour with the establishment if only it comes with the material trappings of servile collaboration with the other.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/arts-and-culture/the-other-black-girl-walks-viewers-through-black-trauma-and-systemic-racism-at-the-workplace/feed/ 0 573312 Migrants at the mercy of Morocco’s iron fist https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/migrants-at-the-mercy-of-moroccos-iron-fist/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/migrants-at-the-mercy-of-moroccos-iron-fist/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:01:35 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=71584 The tragic death of 37 migrants in Melilla underlines the Moroccan regime’s authoritarian security policy.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/migrants-at-the-mercy-of-moroccos-iron-fist/feed/ 0 71584 Passport privilege and Visa apartheid: Africans as unwanted visitors in Europe and America https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/passport-privilege-and-visa-apartheid-africans-as-unwanted-visitors-in-europe-and-america/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/passport-privilege-and-visa-apartheid-africans-as-unwanted-visitors-in-europe-and-america/?noamp=mobile#respond Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:41:00 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=71417 Africans, whether applying for a US, UK, or German visa, are racially profiled, discriminated, and humiliated. Visa rejections rates are staggering. African applicants are over twice as likely to be refused a visa than applicants from other parts of the world.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/passport-privilege-and-visa-apartheid-africans-as-unwanted-visitors-in-europe-and-america/feed/ 0 71417 Racism in South Africa: why the ANC has failed to dismantle patterns of white privilege https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/racism-in-south-africa-why-the-anc-has-failed-to-dismantle-patterns-of-white-privilege/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/racism-in-south-africa-why-the-anc-has-failed-to-dismantle-patterns-of-white-privilege/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 04 Aug 2022 09:43:50 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=71397 Non-racialism is one of the unexamined dogmas of the governing ANC, which has never fully understood how white racism functions.

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