Discrimination category: 2581 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Despite a higher percentage of women entering various STEM fields, issues of discrimination and stereotyping continue to exist. These difficulties create a potential hostile environment and a noticeable gap in opportunities, advancements, and compensation increases in comparison to their male counterparts....
Law, Lawyers and Race
Critical Race Theory from the US to Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Critical Race Theory (CRT) is virtually unheard of in European scholarship, especially among legal scholars. Law, Lawyers and Race: Critical Race Theory from the United States to Europe endeavours to fill this gap by providing an overview of the definition and consequences of CRT developed in American...
Discrimination in Elite Public Schools
Investigating Buffalo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
School choice is an increasingly important part of today’s educational landscape and this timely volume presents fresh research about the competitive admissions policies of choice systems. Based on their investigation of a unique civil rights challenge to school choice admissions policies in politically...
The Mystical Twins
A story about love, life and two nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
A story about love, life and two nations. Princess Obome who is like a Martin Luther King Jr. incarnate from African descent that met her European twin abroad. She suffers from gender discrimination in her society. However, she is able to change the notion and mentality of her society through diligence...
Race and Ethnicity in English Language Teaching
Korea in Focus
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book examines racism and racialized discourses in the ELT profession in South Korea. The book is informed by a number of different critical approaches to race and discourse, and the discussions contained in the chapters offer one way of exploring how the ELT profession can be understood from...
Managing Inequality
Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
In the wake of the Civil War, many white northern leaders supported race-neutral laws and anti-discrimination statutes. These positions helped amplify the distinctions they drew between their political economic system, which they saw as forward-thinking in its promotion of free market capitalism,...
Stigma, State Expressions and the Law
Implications of Freedom of Speech
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
This book demonstrates the difficulties the law is likely to encounter in regulating the expressive activities of the state, particularly with regard to the stigmatization of vulnerable groups and minorities.
Freedom of speech is indispensable to a democratic society, enabling it to operate...
Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than...
Algorithms of Oppression
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
As seen in Wired and Time
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms
Run a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top...
Trouble in Mind
Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
"The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America. . . . Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. Trouble in Mind is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful history and calamitous legacy." --The Washington Post
"The most complete and moving account we have had...
White Rage
The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York TimesBestseller
A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016
From the Civil War to our combustible present,...
Mugged
Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
“This isn’t a story about black people—it’s a story about the Left’s agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else.”
For decades, the Left has been putting on a play with themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights movement—which they were mostly absent from at the time....
Radical Dharma
Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening....
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Tracing the origins and manifestations of anti-Semitism, this chronicle illustrates how this form of discrimination has featured in the history of Western civilization for more than 3,000 years. Against a background of intolerance and condemnation, this reconstruction describes Jewish emancipation...