Stereotypes and Labels: Racial Discrimination Articles - Racism Against Blacks, Asians & More
Research findings, reporting incidents, personal reflections, anecdotes, and commentary that illustrate the pervasive beliefs, the use and harmful effects of labels, stereotypes, slurs, and derogatory slang in contemporary society.
October 26th, 2013
Written by The Associated Press in Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
The New York Civil Liberties Union and 125 other organizations wrote a letter Thursday to the Justice Department asking for a civil rights probe into the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims.
The police department has engaged in "unlawful religious profiling and suspicion-less surveillance," the groups including Muslim, Jewish and Christian organizations and the NAACP wrote.
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October 11th, 2013
Written by Todd Richmond - Associated Press in Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
Assembly Republicans moved closer Wednesday to passing legislation that would make stripping public schools of race-based nicknames and mascots more difficult, pushing the proposal through committee and setting up a floor vote next week.
Republicans introduced the bill to help the Mukwonago Area School District, which has refused a state Department of Public Instruction order to drop its "Indians...
October 2nd, 2013
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A coalition of advocacy groups on Tuesday launched a project to document cases of alleged racial profiling in the Des Moines area.
The groups - the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, the Iowa NAACP and A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy - will conduct one-on-one interviews in October and November with people who claim to have experienced racial profiling in the city.
The interviews will be used...
September 28th, 2013
Written by Todd Richmond - Associated Press in Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
Legislation introduced by Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature would allow schools previously ordered to drop race-based school mascots to keep them and make it harder to strip schools of such nicknames in the future.
The proposal stems from a Milwaukee-area school district's refusal to follow a state order to drop its "Indians" name. It comes amid a rekindling of the national debate over...
September 28th, 2013
Written by Glenn Minnis in Stereotypes & Labels with 0 Comments
Students at an elementary school from which a 7-year-old Oklahoma girl was pulled out of class and tearfully expelled for wearing dreadlocks and "not being presentable" has now changed its policy.
Though Tiana Parker has transferred to another school, authorities at Tulsa's Deborah Brown Community School now say they have amended their dress code and students will be allowed to wear "afro and...
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