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Melissa Nobles
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 14
Citations - 891
Melissa Nobles is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Racism. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 11 publications receiving 836 citations. Previous affiliations of Melissa Nobles include Sun Yat-sen University.
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The politics of official apologies
TL;DR: The authors examines the political uses of official apologies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States and explores why minority groups demand such apologies and why governments do or do not offer them.
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History counts: a comparative analysis of racial / color categorization in US and Brazilian censuses.
TL;DR: The author presents a comparative analysis of the histories of racial/color categorization in American and Brazilian censuses and shows that racial categories have appeared in these censuses because of shifting ideas about race and the enduring power of these ideas as organizers of political, economic, and social life in both countries.
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The Prosecution of Human Rights Violations
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the central arguments and findings of transitional justice, the study of how incoming rulers address the human rights abuses of outgoing regimes, concluding that the balance of political power matters most for explaining transitional justice decision making.
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Science must overcome its racist legacy: Nature’s guest editors speak
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors are leading Nature on a journey to help decolonize research and forge a path towards restorative justice and reconciliation in the field of science and technology.