Discrimination category: 2581 books
Anti-Discriminatory Practice
Equality, Diversity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Now going into its sixth edition, Neil Thompson's Anti-Discriminatory Practice has been providing a trusted introduction to the challenges of promoting social justice and equality for almost a quarter of a century.
Addressing the common concepts and issues across the various forms of discrimination,...
Between North and South
Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Between North and South chronicles the three-decade-long struggle over segregated schooling in Delaware, a key border state and important site of civil rights activism and white reaction. Historian Brett Gadsden begins by tracing the origins of a long litigation campaign by NAACP attorneys who translated...
Summary & Analysis of Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City | A Guide to the Book by Matthew Desmond
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
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In his thought-provoking and deeply moving book, Matthew Desmond tackles the issue of poverty in America...
Race, Labor, and Civil Rights
Griggs versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In 1966, thirteen black employees of the Duke Power Company's Dan River Plant in Draper, North Carolina, filed a lawsuit against the company challenging its requirement of a high school diploma or a passing grade on an intelligence test for internal transfer or promotion. In the groundbreaking decision...
by Charles Barrow, Ann Lyon
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Modern Employment Law covers all aspects relating to the employment relationship between employer and employee at both individual and collective levels. All chapters are absorbing and exact, with nuanced topics such as unfair dismissal, discrimination and trade union law being explored from several...
by Tony Morden
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A Short Guide to Equality Risk analyses the concepts, theories, and issues associated with the implementation in organisations and the service environment of an Equality, Diversity, and Discrimination (EDD) Agenda. Whether from a business, political, social, legal or medical view, the risks of failure...
Racisms
From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies...
Let Us Fight as Free Men
Black Soldiers and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Today, the military is one the most racially diverse institutions in the United States. But for many decades African American soldiers battled racial discrimination and segregation within its ranks. In the years after World War II, the integration of the armed forces was a touchstone in the homefront...
Two Faces of Exclusion
The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Immigration Act of 1924 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the United States has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national...
Whitewashed
America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not - an article by John TehranianThe Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on terrorism, the growing tension between preservation of our national security and protection of our civil rights,...
Racial Discrimination and Private Education
A Legal Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Miller discusses the possible governmental sanctions against integration and the possible ways in which the guarantees of the First and Fourteenth Amendments might be sought and obtained for private schools. He also analyzes the possible effects of discriminatory administrative enforcement of laws...
Romaphobia
The Last Acceptable Form of Racism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Based on first-hand accounts from Roma communities, Romaphobia is an examination of the discrimination faced by one of the most persecuted groups in Europe. Well-researched and informative, it shows that this discrimination has its roots in the early history of the European nation-state, and the ways...
A Mask for Privilege
Anti-semitism in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Why in America should the most sinister of European social diseases have taken root? Why should that disease have spread from its seemingly anachronistic beginning in the Gilded Age until it infected many of our great magazines and newspapers? Until it determined not only where a man might stay...
by Christy Newman, Dale Dagar Maglalang, Alexandra Marie Rivera
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The Psychic Life of Racism in Gay Men’s Communities engages in the necessarily complex task of mapping out the operations of racialized desire as it circulates among gay men. In exploring such desire, the contributors to this collection consider the intersections of privilege and marginalization...