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Arts & Humanities

‘Forced Diversity’ In Movies Is Not a Thing – But Here’s Why Some People Are So Scared of It

When people of color enter spaces historically perceived as ‘white’ in popular representations of history and speculative fiction, familiar outcries of ‘blackwashing’ or ‘forced diversity’ are sure to follow. What is it exactly that white people fear losing?

Academia & Publishing

Exploring the Human Dimension of Peer Review

Our scientific identities shape our notions of quality, value, and relevance, adding an essential human dimension to the evaluation of science. It is therefore time to think (and act) outside the box and to explore peer review as an identity-informed rather than identity-agnostic mechanism in science.

Academia & Publishing

Peer Review Week 2021: Protecting Knowledge and Building Trust

It’s Peer Review Week, and we are excited to participate with a series of blog posts centered around this year’s theme “Identity in Peer Review”. We’ll start off the series with a reflection by De Gruyter’s Vice President of Global Publishing Tom Clark.

Arts & Humanities

“Tatort” And the Politics of Migration on German Prime Time TV

The public broadcaster NDR recently announced the casting of Florence Kasumba as the first Black female investigator in the popular crime series Tatort. Is media scholars’ ongoing criticism of the lack of diversity on German TV screens finally becoming obsolete?

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