• Siddhartha Mitter

The specialty of foreign-affairs blogging is explaining the outside world to uninformed publics The result, however, is mostly pseudo-analysis.

• Donata Columbro

A large part of the challenge for Italians to get used to a black Cabinet Minister is the role Italian media plays. They're particularly bad when it comes to race.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Herman Wasserman

The story of Happy Sindane, the lost white boy, who put a lie to South Africa's rainbow shibboleths.

• Corinna Jentzsch

How does it feel to be an African asylum seeker in Europe.

• María Ximena Plaza

The shows play on the worst stereotypes associated with Afro-Peruvians and uncritically exhibits these for the whole Peruvian nation to watch.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Donata Columbro

The online work of Italian rightwing websites to establish the idea that immigrants are dangerous for the Italian society

• Prasanto Kumar Roy

• Serginho Roosblad

A Dutch comedy about an interracial relationship may shape Dutch views of black people there in very negative ways from which they may not recover for a while.

• Johan Palme

Coming to grips with historically racist stereotypes and colonial traces in children's literature.

• Brett Davidson

The confrontation at Johannesburg Pride between white organizers and a group of black activists demanding Pride honor those killed, mostly black, for their sexuality, in South Africa.

• Jogchum Vrielink

Tintin is full of offensive, racist, stereotypes. Should Africans take the publishers to court? No, argues the author; it is counterproductive.

• Gregory Mann

Both of the front-runners, incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist François Hollande, have run against FrançAfrique. Easier said than done.

• Orlando Reade

Jim Naughtom's images of Herero wearing German colonial outfits, is a powerful and necessary form of post-colonial critique.

• Elliot Ross

The power to choose on social media who is to be the next target of America’s moral manhunt, all with the benediction of a panel of biddable celebrities.

• Achille Mbembe

What gives Fanon's thinking its force and power is the air of indestructibility and the inexhaustible silo of humanity which it houses, argues Achille Mbembe.

• Tom Devriendt

Blackface character, Zwarte Piet, is celebrated in Europe's Low Countries. The author writes about a childhood with Zwarte Piet in Belgium.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Herman Wasserman

Middle class South African inertia and the police murder of activist Andries Tatane during a protest in town in the Free State province.