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An older washerwoman falls in love with and marries a much younger Arab immigrant who works as a mechanic. First rejected by their neighbors and coworkers, they later seem to be accepted, but their relationship is tested by social pressures and illness.

"A ground-breaking collection, On Prejudice is filled with the works of acclaimed writers from all parts of the globe. ... From Slavery to the Holocaust to apartheid to the ethnic wars in Europe and Africa today, On Prejudice exposes and analyzes the concept of prejudice in its many forms. ... Unique in both format and concept, On Prejudice distinguishes itself in both its breadth of inclusion and its presentation of pathways to overcome the evils...

Carol and Marcus want to eliminate prejudice and discrimination from Cutting Edge. In this film, Cutting Edge team members work to create a fairer workplace. Marcus holds a training session to explore the outcome of pre-judging based on first impressions; Casey falls victim to bad feedback on her first impressions. Sam explains prejudice and mob mentality, while Dion encounters prejudice because of his relationship to Marcus. While no-one is completely...

Two psychologists explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality. Using their experience with the Implicit Association Test, a method that gives us a glimpse of our unconscious biases at work, the authors question the extent to which our perceptions of social groups shape our judgments about people's character,...

"In 1998 James Waller took twenty-one white college students from Washington state on a month-long journey. Prejudice Across America is the record of their interaction with the American Indian, Asian American, African American, Hispanic, and Jewish experiences nationwide." "Waller reports here on this innovative and award-winning trek. In Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, Birmingham, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C., his students...

"In recent times major efforts have been made to eliminate racial prejudice, but there is plenty of evidence that it still survives. Gustav Jahoda demonstrates how deeply rooted western perceptions going back more than a thousand years are still feeding racial prejudice today. In Images of Savages he explains how beliefs about monstrous humanoid man-eaters in classical antiquity and 'wild men of the woods' in the Middle Ages influenced the manner...

Includes information on Army Nurse Corps (ANC), discrimination, diversity, education, gender segregation, Great Britain, masculinity, Middle Ages, military, Renaissance, salaries, segregation, touch, United States, wages, etc.

"The first comprehensive treatment of stereotypes and stereotyping, this volume synthesizes a vast body of social and cognitive research that has emerged over the past quarter century. Distinguished researcher David J. Schneider provides an unusually broad analysis of stereotypes as products both of individual cognitive activities and of social and cultural forces. While devoting careful attention to harmful aspects of stereotypes and strategies for...