Ethnicity is defined as a shared cultural heritage based on ancestry, language and customs that have endured for years. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Ethnicity” feature reporting that covers conflict between different ethnic groups, ancestral history and the customs that make ethnic groups unique in the world. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on ethnicity.
A two-part series examining how big a threat the Islamic State poses to Saudi Arabia—and how the Kingdom is fighting back.
Guyana's May 2015 elections have highlighted divisions between the country's Indian, African, and mixed-race populations. Gaiutra Bahadur sees reason to hope for the future of Guyanese race relations.
A less conventional look at the relationship between Canada's forced assimilation Indian Residential School system and the lives that were affected.
Almost every First Nations person has ties to Canada’s Indian Residential School system—a network of federally run, Christian boarding schools that were meant to assimilate indigenous youth.
For nearly a year, Iraqi Kurdistan has been on the front line of the war with the Islamic State. The Kurds have managed to secure their borders, but inside the region they face different battles.
Before you can talk about anything here — the recent election, the recent court case — you need to talk about what happened in 2011.
The barriers separating the Roma residents of Keleti from the city that surrounds them are not physical. They are barriers of absence: absence of education, absence of gainful employment.
A Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seeker who claims to have suffered extensive torture before escaping to the UK has won a last minute reprieve just hours before he was due to be forcibly deported.
Photographs document the struggles—and healing—of indigenous Canadians battling the legacy of the Indian Residential School system.
The issues surrounding the "Roma Question" are less about migration and more about poverty and social inequality.
Hatay, a region that has experienced a confluence of religion, ethnicity and race for thousands of years, is now dominated by an influx of Syrian refugees, increasing sectarian tensions.
Bhutanese refugees stuck in refugee camps in Nepal long to be re-united with their families in the United States.
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