The Roma: A Thousand Years of Discrimination
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CHAPTER OUTLINE
Understanding Discrimination
A Global View
The Roma: A Thousand Years of Discrimination
Hate Crimes Institutional Discrimination
Research Focus
Discrimination in Job Seeking
Discrimination Today Wealth Inequality: Discrimination’s Legacy
Listen to Our Voices
Of Race and Risk
Environmental Justice Affirmative Action Reverse Discrimination The Glass Ceiling
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
How Can Discrimination Be Understood? Why Are There Hate Crimes? How Do Institutions Discriminate? What Is the State of Discrimination Today? How Is Wealth Inequality Discrimination’s Legacy? What Is Environmental Justice? What Is Affirmative Action? What Is Reverse Discrimination? What Is the Glass Ceiling?
ISBN 1-256-48952-2
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Racial and Ethnic Groups, Thirteenth edition, by Richard T. Schaefer. Published by Merrill Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Discrimination
Just as social scientists have advanced theories to explain why prejudice exists, they have also presented explanations of why discrimination occurs. Social scientists look more and more at the manner in which institutions, not individuals, discriminate. Hate crimes are a particularly violent and personal way by which people are denied their rights. Institutional discrimination is a pattern in social institutions that produces or perpetuates inequalities, even if individuals in the society do not intend to be racist or sexist. Income data document that gaps exist between racial and ethnic groups. Historically, attempts have been made to reduce discrimination, usually through strong lobbying efforts by minorities themselves. Patterns of total discrimination make solutions particularly difficult for people in the informal economy or the underclass. Affirmative action was designed to equalize opportunity but has encountered significant resentment by those who charge that it constitutes reverse discrimination. Despite many efforts to end discrimination, glass
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Understanding Discrimination
A Global View
The Roma: A Thousand Years of Discrimination
Hate Crimes Institutional Discrimination
Research Focus
Discrimination in Job Seeking
Discrimination Today Wealth Inequality: Discrimination’s Legacy
Listen to Our Voices
Of Race and Risk
Environmental Justice Affirmative Action Reverse Discrimination The Glass Ceiling
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
How Can Discrimination Be Understood? Why Are There Hate Crimes? How Do Institutions Discriminate? What Is the State of Discrimination Today? How Is Wealth Inequality Discrimination’s Legacy? What Is Environmental Justice? What Is Affirmative Action? What Is Reverse Discrimination? What Is the Glass Ceiling?
ISBN 1-256-48952-2
58
Racial and Ethnic Groups, Thirteenth edition, by Richard T. Schaefer. Published by Merrill Prentice Hall. Copyright © 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc.
Discrimination
Just as social scientists have advanced theories to explain why prejudice exists, they have also presented explanations of why discrimination occurs. Social scientists look more and more at the manner in which institutions, not individuals, discriminate. Hate crimes are a particularly violent and personal way by which people are denied their rights. Institutional discrimination is a pattern in social institutions that produces or perpetuates inequalities, even if individuals in the society do not intend to be racist or sexist. Income data document that gaps exist between racial and ethnic groups. Historically, attempts have been made to reduce discrimination, usually through strong lobbying efforts by minorities themselves. Patterns of total discrimination make solutions particularly difficult for people in the informal economy or the underclass. Affirmative action was designed to equalize opportunity but has encountered significant resentment by those who charge that it constitutes reverse discrimination. Despite many efforts to end discrimination, glass