Josh White / 29 Nov 2021
Drowning in Hatred
Britain’s Immigration Debate
Borders bring almost as much insecurity as security.(...)
Multiculturalism
Charlie Bertsch / 30 Jun 2021
The Art of Listening
This is What Europe Sounds Like, by Joel Schalit
This is What Europe Sounds Like makes for uneasy listening. Not because of strident guitars, disturbing lyrics, or aggressive atonality, but because it refuses to meet the expectation of music at all.(...)
Alexsyane Silva / 29 Apr 2021
Lisbon for Everybody
Beatriz Gomes Dias for Mayor
In Lisbon's Fall election, Beatriz Gomes Dias could become the first woman of African descent to lead the Portuguese capital, if her coalition wins a majority on the city council.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 26 Mar 2021
Jewish in Germany
The JID Interview, Part I
Israelis in Germany. Say what? Few stories about European immigration have been as loaded, and complex as those about Jews moving from the Middle East to Germany. (...)
Preethi Nallu / 02 Dec 2020
Black Lives Matter Reaches Norway
Globalising Anti-Racism
As the latest anti-racism chants fade from Norwegian media headlines, rights advocates in the Scandinavian country are exploring ways of continuing the discussions that started on social media and led to protests.(...)
Joe Keady / 29 Jun 2020
The White Nationalist Experience
Profiling the Ideologues
Despite the contemporary far-right’s propensity for hard-line nationalism, it's a global phenomenon. (...)
The Battleground / 19 Jun 2020
Think Difference
The Battleground’s Summer Book List
2020 will be remembered as the year race broke. Not in a popular sense, to refer to the 1991 Dave Markey documentary about American punk. Rather, as the year that diversity became a subject of crisis, again.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 22 Jan 2020
Banlieue Noir
The Suburbs of TripleGo
How you respond to the work of Paris rap duo TripleGo may well depend on your knowledge of the context that produced them. If you know it well, you will likely understand why they have received so much praise for the subdued, yet propulsive tracks on their two 2019 albums, MACHAKIL and Yeux Rouge(...)
Joel Schalit / 16 Oct 2019
Last Train to Halle
History At a Standstill
I've never gotten the hang of taking trains in Germany. I avoid using them whenever possible.(...)
Joel Schalit / 30 Sep 2019
Diversity is Everywhere
On Photographing Minorities
"You're giving the wrong impression of Berlin," the email read. "It's in Germany, not Iraq." So read the umpteenth message I'd received that day from readers of Reddit Berlin, one of the most highly used social media forums about the city, in English. It was one of the kinder notes I received.(...)