Discrimination category: 2581 books
The Denial of Antiblackness
Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society
Thanks to movements like Black Lives Matter, Western society’s chronic discrimination against black individuals has become front-page news. Yet, there is little...
by Mark C. Weber
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often damaging environment of physical and attitudinal...
The Nigger in You
Challenging Dysfunctional Language, Engaging Leadership Moments
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Embrace Leadership to Combat All Forms of Prejudice“Is there a ‘nigger’ in you?” If you have attempted to avoid and/or escape oppression, been made to feel as if you are a problem, been treated as “lesser than” or even like a criminal, all just because you are different in a given context,...
Cultural Fault Lines in Healthcare
Reflections on Cultural Competency
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Healthcare in the U.S. faces two interpenetrating certainties. First, with over 66 racial and ethnic groupings, our “American Mosaic” of worldviews and values unavoidably generates clashes in hospitals and clinics. Second, our public increasingly mistrusts our healthcare system and delivery. One...
by Terrence Craig
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction is a critical overview of the appearances and consequences of racism in English-Canadian fiction published between 1905 and 1980.
Based on an analysis of traditional expressions in literature of group solidarity and resentment, the study screens...
by Annie O. Derthick, PhD, E.J.R. David
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Written in an engaging and relatable manner, this book reviews the psychological theories and research on the topic of oppression – its evolution, its various forms, and its consequences. Painful historical examples and modern-day occurrences of oppression including mass incarceration, LGBT and...
When They Blew the Levee
Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project. This levee breach was intended to divert water in order to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Race and Democracy in the Americas examines dimensions of the comparative dynamics of race and ethnicity, with a directed focus on the Americas, most particularly Brazil and the United States. Brazil and the United States are two countries in the Americas that have been major hosts for the African...
Woke Gaming
Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2018
From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression. Whether visible in the persistent color line that shapes the production, dissemination, and legitimization of dominant...
by Jessie B. Evans-Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Like the majority of institutions in America, the U.S. Postal Service policy, practice, and/or procedure appear neutral. Truthfully, it has a disproportionately negative impact on members of a racial or ethnic minority group.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, “An injustice anywhere...
Equality
The Legal Framework
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The second edition of this widely-acclaimed book about the Equality Act 2010 by one of its leading architects brings forward the story of how and why this historic legislation was enacted and what it means, to cover the first four years of its implementation by the Coalition Government and in the...
A Dream Denied
Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Young minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. *A Dream Denied *delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the “American dream” narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2018
This book represents a comprehensive effort to understand discrimination, racialization, racism, Islamophobia, anti-racist activism, and the inclusion and exclusion of minorities in Nordic countries. Examining critical media events in this heavily mediatized society, the contributors explore how processes...
La Svolta razzista
Controversie ideologiche tra Chiesa e fascismo
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Il 20 marzo 1939 la Segreteria di Stato vaticana invia all'Ambasciata italiana presso la Santa Sede una durissima nota relativa alla rivista di propaganda La Difesa della razza, diretta da Telesio Interlandi. Il periodico, al quale tutti gli istituti di istruzione, anche quelli cattolici, sono obbligati...