March 21st is celebrated globally as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. On this day in 1960, police killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against the inhuman apartheid laws in Sharpeville, South Africa. In 1966, the UN proclaimed this day for calling
The Finnish political debates have centered around racism ever since the openly racist comments by several ministers of the new government started to circulate on media in Summer 2023. Malin Grahn-Wilder analyzes Minister of Finance Riikka Purra’s (Finns) comments from the perspective of cultural racism in
We are the ORT-project, or Origins of Racializing Thought, a four-year philosophical research project at the University of Jyväskylä, funded by the Kone Foundation. We are glad you found your way to our homepage! For those of you who read Finnish, Malin Grahn-Wilder and Martina Reuter