Into the darkness
Slavery was established in parts of the world aeons before the US was even a twinkle in Washington's eye and it was rarely restricted to one race or group. So how, asks David Brion Davis, did chattel...
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A people denied its great expectations
Why do so few black actors land the top parts in television dramas? Stephen Bourne investigates In 1996, a young journalist asked me who Paul Robeson was. My heart sank. I remembered something I had...
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Hatred of the partially familiar
New racial hostilities are surfacing towards those whose difference is hard to pin down. By Paul Gilroy Discussions of race pose moral challenges that historians must be prepared to explore....
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The art of constructing scientific stereotypes
Artists helped create the notion of a human hierarchy based on facial characteristics, argues David Bindman Race emerged as a scientific concept in the late 18th century, and continued throughout the...
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Putting on a brave face
Native American identity is constantly shifting and redefining itself to survive the challenges of different ages, says Jonathan King In a 1996 American movie Mars Attacks!, Martians are portrayed as...
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Cleansing ethnicity from the conflict
Concentrating on ethnicity as the driving force in recent Balkan history distorts the picture, says Nergis Canefe History is not a science. According to the etymological roots of the word, it is the...
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World Watch
A Moscow State University student taking a lunchtime walk through the campus park died when an unknown attacker slashed her throat with a knife. Zukhra Saitova, a 19-year-old third-year philosophy...
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Queen's Birthday Honours
LIFE PEERS Sir Ronald Oxburgh, KBE, rector, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine; Vivien Stern, secretary general, Penal Reform International. KNIGHTS William Adsetts, OBE, chair of...
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The College of Law
The College of Law has launched its own student loan scheme in collaboration with NatWest bank. Under a special deal, students can take out loans currently fixed at 6.25 per cent or variable loans at...
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Informed waiting
(Photograph) - Nick Bower, a student at Sheffield Hallam University, who during a placement at South Yorkshire Passenger Transport helped develop QUEST, a bus location system. People waiting at bus...
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World Watch
The privately funded Islamic University of Rotterdam will more than double its student intake this autumn. Up to 100 new students are expected to be admitted to study Islam and the Koran. The...
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Which country is tops in tropical medicine?
Citations for the trend spotters Normally, analysis of citations in individual subfields is more useful for policy formation than is an examination of all of biomedicine. Papers in a subfield such as...
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Grants lobby refuses to die
Phil Baty looks at academics' response to a THES poll on how Labour policies are faring Academics have overwhelmingly rejected the government's decision to scrap student grants, warning that hardship...
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Catholic landstop Ulster job
A Catholic has been appointed vice-chancellor of one of Northern Ireland's universities for the first time. Gerry McKenna (above), 45, currently UU's pro vice-chancellor for research, beat off...
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Citations for the trend spotters
The Unesco conference will note the growing strength of Asian biomedical science. Grant Lewison reports The practice of counting the numbers of scientific papers produced by a country has become a...