Discrimination category: 2581 books
Equality
The New Legal Framework
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Equality Act 2010 is a major landmark in the long struggle for equal rights. This book tells the story of how and why it came to be enacted, what it means, what changes it can bring about in British society, and - no less important - what the Act will not do.
The Act is the outcome of over...
Religion, Equality and Employment in Europe
The Case for Reasonable Accommodation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The management of religious and ideological diversity remains a key challenge of our time – deeply entangled with debates about the nature of liberal democracy, equality, social cohesion, minorities and nationalism, security and foreign policy. This book explores this challenge at the level of the...
The Development of Disability Rights Under International Law
From Charity to Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CPRD) by the United Nations in 2006 is the first comprehensive and binding treaty on the rights of people with disabilities. It establishes the right of people with disabilities to equality, dignity, autonomy, full participation,...
Cause
. . . And How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The Freakonomics of the sociology world. This book shows how deeply irrational we humans are, and what we can do about it
When we try to understand our world, we ask “why?” a specific event occured. But this profoundly human question often leads us astray. In Cause, sociologist Gregory...
Civil Racism
The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and destruction of stores, many of which were owned or...
Darwin's Athletes
How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1997
A “provocative, disturbing, important” look at how society’s obsession with athletic achievement undermines African Americans (The New York Times).
Very few pastimes in America cross racial, regional, cultural, and economic boundaries the way sports do. From the near-religious respect...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
There is great diversity of definitions, causes and consequences of discrimination against persons with disabilities, yet there are fundamental themes uniting countries in their pursuit of human rights policies to improve the social and economic status of those with disabilities. In this volume are...
Jim Crow Terminals
The Desegregation of American Airports
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands...
Life in a Black Community
Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Life in a Black Community: Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952 tells the story of a struggle over what it meant to be a citizen of a democracy. For blacks, membership in a democracy meant full and equal participation in the life of the town. For most whites, it meant the...
The Diversity Machine
The Drive to Change the White Male Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
"Diversity" has become the turn-of-the-century buzzword. Republican and Democratic leaders ritually chant "diversity is our strength" and corporate CEOs talk about the need to create a "workforce that looks like America." Most corporate mission statements now contain...
What if I Say the Wrong Thing?
25 Habits for Culturally Effective People
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
In this compelling new tip book you'll find innovative and surprising ways to keep your personal diversity journey moving and the diversity commitment of your organization. Written to make this information bite-size and accessible, you'll find quick answers to typical What should I do? questions, like:...
Good Kids, Bad City
A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.
In the early 1970s, three...
The Power of Race in Cuba
Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness During the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress and activism through the lens of Cuba. Since 1959, Fidel Castro and the Cuban government have married socialism and the ideal of racial harmony to...
Redefining Race
Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
In 2012, the Pew Research Center issued a report that named Asian Americans as the “highest-income, best-educated, and fastest-growing racial group in the United States.” Despite this seemingly optimistic conclusion, over thirty Asian American advocacy groups challenged the findings. As many pointed...