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A constant in today's society is the continued legacy of racism that is still felt against many races, but the word “race” has never meant the same thing for too long. Over the years the word race’s primary goal has been to categorize people into predefined groups usually at the hands of colonial powers who believed they were superior because of their colonial success. In this blog, we will look at how we look at race today and contrast it with historical accounts to challenge our preconceived notions of the word. This will first be done by looking at different attempts by multiple biological anthropologists to classify races across time. This demonstrates the racial grouping of people we use today, was vastly different in times past. Secondly, we will look at examples of discrimination and subjugation in recent history of people who most consider non-marginalized today. This will shine a light on how the victims of the changing word race have changed over time. Finally, we will look at personal accounts from my grandfather who experienced prejudice as a dark Serb in Canada at the United States. His account gives first-hand experience of the changing nature of race in his lifetime. In no way does this paper deny institutional racism, it is just an exposé of how the pillars of institutional racism have been altered.

In this blog we discuss the long history and the changing nature of the term "race"

This visualization is a digital interactive timeline detailing every single drone-strike-related death in Pakistan from 2004 to now. This visualization is considered as an exploration of the attacks as the visualization tries to demonstrate the USA’s inability to target hostels with this technology rather than acknowledging what happened. This visualization’s target audience is likely people who support the USA’s counter-terrorism actions, as this visualization would give them insight into how inefficient America’s approach is. (Photo by taken by Agence France Presse in 2015)