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Bias, Harassment and Racism within Government Agencies

work environment atmosphere in an unrelated sexual harassment complaint" (Diamond, 2005). In addition, government employees should...

Affirmative Action And Structural Inequality

education than Blacks. A rash of laws that came about beginning in the 1950s addressed the issues of discrimination and equal opp...

The Model Minority Myth

Dr. Nakanishi points out that that a large number of Asian American students attend "multiracial, low-income...low-performing scho...

Lead Poisoning and Asthma

Joseph, Havstad, Ownby, Peterson, et al (2005) explore lead poisoning as it relates to asthma. These researchers explore the hypo...

American Industrialization: 1877-1920

qualifications to be president, except that he looked like one," took office (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 669). A Republican who turn...

Odessa, TX/Race Relations

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

Psychological Article Reviews

article acknowledges the perceived weaknesses within a particular culture; however, it also identifies the fact that all students ...

The Vietnamese in Houston

and Fort Worth has a population of 16,000 less than Houston. Slide 3 The Vietnamese population is important to the area and i...

California Minority Arrests

Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts, 2006). "In California the rate for Latinos is 9.4 per...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Federalist No. Fifty One by James Madison

Madison is whether utilitarianism has a place in the framework of Americas Constitution and if it does, to what extent is this ass...

Sexual Minorities and Discrimination

is a "century-old belief that governments, both state and federal, should not be allowed to discriminate" the constitutional promi...

Peremptory Judicial Challenge and Racial Minorities

exclusively white legal society (Scherer 655). Political scientist Samuel Krislov agrees, adding that minority jurists reflect mi...

Parole, Probation, and Sociological Factors

twenty-five years. Last year just under 2.1 million offenders are incarcerated around the country (Whitford, 2004). Another 15 m...

Ethnic Discrepancies Regarding Cases of Asthma

in the prevalence of asthma. Akinbami, Rhodes & Lara (2005) suggest that "many studies have demonstrated that these large disparit...

Minorities Overrepresented in Special Education

for special education services (Samuels, 2005). It honed in on the minority problem as well. Samuels (2005) writes: "Districts wit...

Overrepresentation Of Minorities In Special Education

typically live in poor neighborhoods, which means their neighborhood schools will be mostly populated with other poor students. Ba...

Poverty : Causes And Effects

the five states with the highest rates of poverty were New Mexico, Arkansas, West Virginia, Louisiana and Texas (Rodgers, Payne an...

Under-Representation of Minorities in Sports Leadership Positions

however, has been questioned, but there is probably some truth to it. To take a trivial example, if we see a black janitor in a sc...

Racial Profiling and Racial Discrimination

"episodic" view of discrimination is probably inadequate because of the cumulative effects of discrimination (Measuring racial dis...

Administrative Position Paper: Excessive Force

upheld. This in turn has created liability and civil suits for the city, and has tarnished the image for both the city and the de...

Pilot Study on Cancer Diagnosis and Minorities

suggests that there is a level of stigmatization and fear that is prevalent in minority communities that reduces the chances that ...

Germany, Japan, and UK Identity Politics

cherished force in creating the national identity" (Allott, 1998). Minorities, therefore, seem to be less important in this conte...

Social Justice and California Juvenile Hall's Minority Student Education

more of the same behavior the recovery programs seek to overcome. A recent study has shown undeniable evidence that boot camp and...

Minorities and Low Income Groups and Investigation of Differences III

likelihood of ... overrepresentation in the criminal justice system" (Smith in Hanson, 2000; p. 77). Hispanics Point. Stud...

Minorities and the Military

of those who enlist in the military for the first time are African Americans, which is "well above the African-American fraction o...

Ethnic Minorities and Paradise Lost by Peter Schrag

generous in regards to social welfare and progressive policies, according to Schrag. This situation has changed drastically accord...

Cinema and the Placement of Products

as did the movie companies, which realiszed that the sweet manufacturer hadnt paid a cent" (Goodwin, 2002). With these realities p...

Iran's Kurds

but others see federalism as reasonable (2005). They believe that they can be a nation within a state. Radical groups do not se...

Minority Populations and Arrest Data Within Louisiana's Criminal Justice System

was reduced by about half, to reach an even keel with Caucasian arrest level, with a slightly higher percentage of arrests falling...