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Race and Racism Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2 ed.)
The study of race and racism is a rapidly growing field in the social sciences. Over the past few decades

Race Relations and War Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Race relations have helped shape, and in turn have been shaped by, the conduct of American wars; and the dominant

Racism Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
Popular fiction in general and detective fiction in particular, as literature consciously designed to appeal to a mass audience, naturally

Racial Discrimination Quick reference
A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion
A major source for the Jewish view on racial discrimination is the prosaic account of the family of nations (Genesis

Race and Racism Reference library
Earl M. Maltz; and Charles L. Zelden
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (2 ed.)
Problems of race and race relations—particularly issues concerning the status of African‐Americans—have played a prominent role in American political life

Race Discrimination and the Death Penalty Reference library
David C. Baldus, Charles A. Pulaski, and George Woodworth
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (2 ed.)
The Supreme Court did not directly address a constitutional claim that the death penalty is administered in a racially discriminatory

Racial Discrimination Reference library
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
[See Racial Discrimination: Origins and Patterns and Racial Discrimination Convention.]

Racism Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
A combination of institutional power and prejudice against members of racial or ethnic groups other than one's own, racism has

racism Reference library
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
A form of prejudice based on the belief that certain racial groups are inherently superior to others. Racist discourse generally

Race and Racialization Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
Despite the scientific disrepute of the concept of race, many people believe that human beings can be described, classified, and

Racial Profiling Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
In the late 1990s, police targeting of African Americans, Latinas and Latinos, and other racial minorities for traffic stops on

Racism Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
Prior to the 1830s, in both the North and the South, the inferiority of black Americans was generally accepted as

Racial Profiling Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present
“Racial profiling” is the term used to describe the practice of treating a person as a criminal suspect because of

Racism Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present
Racism classifies human beings into distinct and differentially valued racial groups, which are assumed to indicate intelligence, moral character, work

racial discrimination Reference library
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
The present international law on racial discrimination derives from the U.N. Charter, which in art. 1(3) states that one of

racist régimes Reference library
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
The frequent references in U.N. resolutions to racist régimes in Southern Africa are to the White minority government of South

Race and Conflict Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
Race is connected to conflict in complicated and diverse ways. Some are highly visible, as in the making of boundaries

racism Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Body
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term describes ‘the theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined

Race relations Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Australian History
have a wide meaning in today's multicultural Australia. However, until the 1940s Australians were predominantly of British and Irish descent,

Racism Reference library
Oxford Companion to Australian Politics
The narrowly defined view of racism predominant in the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth casts the term