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Here are some snapshots from a dark chapter in American history. Throughout the 19th century, San Francisco's growing Chinese immigrant population had to contend with codified prejudice from legislation like the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, segregated communities, and the sentiment that Chinese-Americans were the source of leprous, smallpox, and malarial "vapors." More »
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In a study that screams to be wildly misinterpreted, people subjected to chaotic and disordered environments were shown to be more likely to discriminate against and stereotype others. More »
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In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in what is now the Bahamas, changing the world forever. But was he first non-indigenous person to reach the Americas? Vikings got there before him, and possibly Polynesians too...and those are just the sane theories. More »
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Sometimes they're just good ideas gone awry, other times they're — apparently — willful screeds against an entire race. So, here are the Five Most Unintentionally Offensive Comic Book Characters. [Cracked] More »
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Tintin, the globe-trotting boy reporter, has gotten himself into yet another scrape — one of his books is in danger of being banned in his native land of Belgium. More »
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People with Williams Syndrome lack 26 genes found in a typical human genome. As a result they are inordinately friendly, and experience no social anxiety. Now a new study reveals that they may also be free of racial bias. More »
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As much as I love the hand-drawn beauty that is classic Disney story-telling, it's hard not to let certain Princess And The Frog plot points fog up the animation. But you be the judge: here are the first few minutes. More »
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It may be an alien-disguised apartheid allegory according to some (Okay, many), but does that mean that District 9 isn't racist itself? And no, this is more than metaphor. More »
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Disney's Princess and The Frog has been getting a lot of flack for reportedly turning the first black Disney Princess green for a majority of the film. I'm not so sure this videogame tie-in is going to help their case. More »
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My lesson is learned. Never accuse a comic of being arguably racist, unless you want people to ask unexpected, and slightly flamey, questions in the comments section. The comic in question? Kick-Ass. The controversy? Whether or not white people are less likely to break laws. More »
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In just a thousand years, evolution will turn us all into supermodels, says British evolutionary psychologist and media whore Oliver Curry. That's because "sexual selection" naturally means that only people with the nicest faces and genitals get to produce babies — which anybody who's been to a baby shower will totally back up. Says Curry: More »
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James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for helping to discover the double-helix shape of DNA, has been suspended from his administrative duties at Cold Spring Harbor Labs over comments he made to the London Times about how blacks are genetically hardwired with lower intelligence than other races. This should come as no surprise to people who have followed Watson's career. Many claim his "discovery" of DNA's structure came from peeking at (and stealing from) colleague Rosalind Franklin's work, a pioneer of microscopic imaging techniques whom Watson derided as an ugly woman who couldn't deal with people. Franklin died before the Nobel prize was given out, so she never had a chance to protest. Watson also grossed out a crowd at UC Berkeley during a public lecture in 2000 when he claimed that "darker" women had a higher sex drive due to genetics (AP mentions this lecture in a story). But what Watson said last week in the Times was much worse. More »
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