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Stephen Davis Monday 12 August 2024 This is the country of the dispossessed The lucky country of golden despair  History’s shadows will never find rest Until the wanderer finds love and care…

Is she Indian or is she black? Trump and racist language in the US and Australia

‘Trump’s question, “Is she Indian or is she black?” (which he sees as somehow problematic) is built on presuppositions and categories that are officially sanctioned and widely used. Indeed, those in the US, and perhaps elsewhere, who rightly criticise him need to evaluate their own language and the validity of their own concept of race.’

Brian Edgar asks us to reconsider language of race.