Discrimination category: 2581 books
African American Culture and Society After Rodney King
Provocations and Protests, Progression and 'Post-Racialism'
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media stereotyping of African Americans, and institutional discrimination. Following the twentieth anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising, this time period...
American Hate
Survivors Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
**Amid the ugly realities of contemporary America, American Hate affirms our courage and inspiration, opening a roadmap to reconciliation by means of the victims' own words.”
-NPR Books
The collection offers possible solutions for how people, on their own or working with others, can confront...
Inclusive equality
A vision for social justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
In an era of ongoing economic failures, as governments cut support to the poorest, the richest continue to get richer and those in-between are squeezed by rising costs and flagging incomes, the challenges for social cohesion – and for social justice – seem overwhelming. As inequality increases,...
Genetic Privacy and Discrimmination
An Overview of Selected Major Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Like advances in many fields, those involving genetics bring both benefits and dangers to society. Among the promised benefits is the ability to identify health issues earlier than is now the case and the improve the prospects of successful prevention and treatment. In addition, forensic applications...
Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States
Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of the ethnic identities of two distinct cohorts of Korean Americans. Through personal essays, the book explores four influential factors of ethnic identity: retention...
Desegregating Dixie
The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the southern Catholic Church contributed to...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
This collection of essays highlights the controversies surrounding racism in sports and African American athletes, examining the racial discrimination that exists in one of the most public arenas in the 21st century.
• Enables readers to comprehend how sports influence—and are influenced...
by Leah Penniman, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Leah Penniman tells us a story about race and the food system and how we can decolonize and re-indigenize our relationship to land and to food....
American Islamophobia
Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“I remember the four words that repeatedly scrolled across my mind after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. ‘Please don’t be Muslims, please don’t be Muslims.’ The four words I whispered to myself on 9/11 reverberated through the mind of every Muslim American...
by K. Emma Ng
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
A 2010 Human Rights Commission report found that Asian people reported higher levels of discrimination than any other minority in New Zealand.
K. Emma Ng shines light onto the persistence of anti-Asian sentiment in New Zealand. Her anecdotal account is based on her personal experience as a...
Today, 60% of American Women Are Graduating with College Degrees versus 40% of American Men.
SHORT STORY # 27. Nonfiction series #1- #60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Even the Civil Right Act of 1964 gave an equal opportunity to women and minorities, discrimination and prejudice continue even today. Brilliant and pioneering women in these generations sacrificed, endured, and overcome monumental problems. They took a risk—millions entered the labor force and colleges...
Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South
Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike their peer public institutions, no federal court ordered these schools to admit black students and no troops arrived to protect access to the schools, to suggest that desegregation at...
Social Scientists for Social Justice
Making the Case against Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
In one of the twentieth century's landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown v. Board of Education, social scientists such as Kenneth Clark helped to convince the Supreme Court Justices of the debilitating psychological effects of racism and segregation. John P. Jackson, Jr., examines the well-known studies...
Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military
Volume 4. Investigations of Potential Bias in Estimates from the 2014 RAND Military Workplace Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office asked the RAND Corporation to independently assess rates of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination in the military. This volume presents the results of methodological investigations into sources of potential...