In The News: Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies
After a viral tweet about abuse targeted at an actor in the upcoming iCarly reboot, experts explain the widespread racism against Black women.
This episode examines our personal relationships to pornography and erotica and how they’re shaped by dominant cultural narratives about pleasure.
Home is where the heart is and for many native Hawaiians and Las Vegas has become their adopted home. In fact, so many have settled in Southern Nevada that Vegas has earned a reputation as being the "ninth island."
You may have heard of the term AAPI on the news in recent months, but if you didn’t know it stands for Asian American Pacific Islander.
Clark County schools educate more than 300,000 students whose backgrounds are from almost every ethnicity, race and culture. But the school district still has no anti-racism policy.
With less than a month to the end of the 2021 Nevada Legislature's regular session, a bill to abolish the use of the death penalty, AB395, has made more progress toward becoming law than any similar bill in state history.
Men out-earn women in both traditionally male-dominated and female-dominated professions, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Among a variety of professions, the gender pay gap exists.
This week, host Joey Lovato talks with UNLV Professor Tyler D. Parry about the Derek Chauvin verdict and policing reform in Nevada
An effort to repeal the death penalty in Nevada is exposing polarization in the Legislature while proving party affiliation can be an unreliable predictor when it comes to capital punishment.
The triple conviction, Tuesday evening, of the former police officer who resulted in the death of George Floyd after an arrest that went wrong in 2020 now gives hope to activists for a profound reform of the police force in the United States. According to them, this police force has maintained for decades a systemic racism of which African-Americans, mostly men, are the main victims.
The world watched as former officer Derek Chauvin put his knee on George Floyd’s neck for nine and a half minutes. Tuesday’s verdict sent shockwaves across the country.
An effort to repeal the death penalty in Nevada is exposing polarization in the Legislature while proving party affiliation can be an unreliable predictor when it comes to capital punishment.