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Revealing the rise of a living fossil menagerie

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The living fossil concept continues to foster development of integrative research, as it has done since Darwin’s use of the term in 1859. It has been applied to a vast menagerie of biological entities across the kingdoms of life and at many levels in the
Scott Lidgard, Emma Kitchen
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The black female body: Representation of the erotic in contemporary visual art in Africa

open access: yesE-REA, 2021
Black sexual politics and its interaction with the eroticized female body in African art are still surprisingly underexplored topics in African academia (“African” not “Africanist”, to follow the distinction made by Jones in “African Scholarship ...
Tayler FRIAR
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La représentation des Noirs dans le cinéma d’animation américain : entre pseudosciences et circulations intermédiatiques transnationales (1907‑1946)

open access: yesILCEA, 2021
From the birth of the cinema-attraction at the end of the 19th century to the public release of the Disney’s controversial animated feature-length Song of the South in 1946, the American animated film industry relentlessly depicted Black characters in a ...
Pierre Cras
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Racism and mental health and the role of mental health professionals

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2021
The concept of “race” and consequently of racism is not a recent phenomenon, although it had profound effects on the lives of populations over the last several hundred years.
M. Schouler-Ocak   +6 more
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We need to talk about coloniality and racism: a gap in the editorial ecosystem of the Social and Human Sciences in Collective Health [PDF]

open access: yesSaúde e Sociedade
This essay examines how the invisibility of coloniality and racism in scientific journals drives editorial inequity in the Social and Human Sciences in Health.
Luís Eduardo Batista   +6 more
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White Lies Matter: The Evolution, Persistence, and Impact of Scientific Racism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
A dissection of the origins, history, persistence, and impacts of various threads of scientific racism. This paper traces scientific racism from its roots in evolutionary biology through Social Darwinism and eugenics.
Keay, Kim
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Problematising mainstream Spanish antiracism: race, racism and whiteness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Published online: 16 Aug 2021In Spain, (anti-)racism is of scarce relevance to public debates and, when the topic is broached, it has mainly been discussed in relation to non-EU migration.
Sebastiani, Luca, Luca Sebastiani
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Black – and not offended

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2020
This Commentary is a response to a Commentary published in the May/June 2020 issue: Nattrass N. Why are black South African students less likely to consider studying biological sciences? S Afr J Sci. 2020;116(5/6), Art. #7864, 2 pages. https://doi.org/
Hassan Essop, Wahbie Long
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Lipocalin‐2 activates hepatic stellate cells and promotes nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in high‐fat diet–fed Ob/Ob mice

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Graphical summary of obesity‐induced NASH progression by LCN2 targeted to HSC activation. Abstract Background and Aims In obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus, leptin promotes insulin resistance and contributes to the progression of NASH via activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs).
Kyung Eun Kim   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Science, Religion, and Human Inequality: Racism, Eugenics, and Euthanasia

open access: yesReligions
Over the past two or three centuries, some influential scientists and theologians have claimed the mantle of science to promote human inequality. They have achieved this by arguing that science provides support for racism, eugenics, and even euthanasia ...
Richard Weikart, John A. Bloom
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