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Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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In the United States, racial profiling affects thousands of Americans every day. Both individuals and institutions—such as law enforcement agencies, government bodies, and schools—routinely use race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of an offense. The high-profile deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of police officers have brought renewed national attention to racial profiling and have inspired grassroots activism from...
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Racial profiling isn't just a problem for one group of people. It's a problem for everyone in America, and the world. The underlying racism that contributes to profiling is a serious issue for people of all colors. This insightful book presents facts and statistics to counter damaging myths, giving readers perspective to understand how racial profiling can happen and what to do about it. Readers will learn how to push back against discrimination,...
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The United States prides itself on being a country with people from all different walks of life. However, the acceptance some take for granted isn't always there for people of color. In recent years, awareness of and anger about racial profiling and discrimination have reached their highest levels in decades. Racial profiling and discrimination often happen in ways many people don't realize, hurting their victims and leading to further divisions....
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Although society has come a long way toward accepting all kinds of people, flagrant racial profiling and discrimination remain a harsh reality. This helpful book covers different types of discrimination, illustrated with real-life stories. Readers will learn what they can do if they experience racial profiling and are in the thick of the struggle to navigate the legal system. More importantly, they will learn what steps they can take to avoid getting...
6) Brotherhood of corruption: a cop breaks the silence on police abuse, brutality, and racial profiling
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English
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A former Chicago cop exposes shocking truths about the abuses of power within the city’s police department in this memoir of violence, drugs, and men with badges. Juarez becomes a police officer because he wants to make a difference in gang-infested neighborhoods; but, as this book reveals, he ends up a corrupt member of the most powerful gang of all—the Chicago police force. Juarez shares the horrific indiscretions he witnessed during his seven...
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English
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Everything you've been taught about the World War II 'internment camps' in America is wrong:
They were not created primarily because of racism or wartime hysteria They did not target only those of Japanese descent They were not Nazi-style death camps
In her latest investigative tour-de-force, New York Times best-selling author Michelle Malkin sets the historical record straight-and debunks radical ethnic alarmists who distort history to undermine...
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English
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For over 400 hundred years, black people have always been, the survivors of brutality, victimization, persecutions, inhumanity and slavery from other races and ethnic groups globally. White people from Europe and the Americas scrambled for and stole treasures and young people from the motherland Africa to enable them survive and enrich their nations while Africa and Africans have been left to die of starvation and communal clashes incited by their...
10) Racial profiling
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Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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This volume explores the topic of racial profiling or any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than the behavior of an individual. The editor presents varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that surround this issue. The authors debate the relevance of racial profiling in contemporary society in the following chapters: Does Racial Profiling Exist?, Should Arab Muslims Be Profiled...
11) Racial profiling
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Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
13) Racial profiling
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Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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"Focuses on the debate surrounding racial profiling in the United States--including a historical look at criminal profiles and U.S. government initiatives like Japanese-American internment during WWII through to the modern anti-terrorist age--through scholarly opinions, statistics, and studies"--Provided by publisher.
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Studies in crime and punishment volume 10
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P. Lang
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Examining racial profiling in American politics, philosopher Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice. Drawing clear lines between rights and privileges and between justice and existing laws, and examining the legal structure that has permitted the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and others, Zack shows why it is more important to consider black rights...
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