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Examines the traditional slurs in American vernaculars and the order of ethnic labeling.

"Issues of identity and authenticity present perennial challenges to both Native Americans and critics of their art. Vickers examines the long history of dehumanizing depictions of Native Americans while discussing such purveyors of stereotypes as the Puritans, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Hollywood. These stereotypes abetted a national policy robbing Indians of their cultural identity. As a contrast to these, he examines the work of white authors...

"In Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes, historians, literary scholars, sociologists, creative writers, and activists talk back to the American mainstream, confronting head-on those who would view their home region one-dimensionally."--Jacket. "The essays provide a variety of responses from people who live or were born in the region. Some examine the sources of Appalachian mythology in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. Others reveal...

The major purpose of this book is to make available in compact form a number of... studies concerning Mexican Americans. Purposely the authors chosen are both Anglos and Mexican Americans. They include sociologists, anthropologists, historians, attorneys and judges, doctors, economists, public administrators, social workers, educators, and journalists, among others... The...aim is to present a multiplicity of aspects and a multiplicity of points of...

Our brains create categories to make sense of the world, recognize patterns and make quick decisions. But this ability to categorize also exacts a heavy toll in the form of unconscious bias. In this powerful talk, psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt explores how our biases unfairly target Black people at all levels of society -- from schools and social media to policing and criminal justice -- and discusses how creating points of friction can help...

This training version of Jane Elliott's work in Kansas City features segments from her blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise with adults, followed by a debriefing with the participants about their experiences with discrimination in the exercise.

In 1968, in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jane Elliott involved her third grade students in all-white, all-Christian, Riceville, Iowa, in an exercise in discrimination based on eye color. This program features a diversity training session using clips from Elliott's previous documentaries of her famed blue eyed/brown eyed experiments. It contains carefully selected and thought-provoking clips from the blue-eyed/brown-eyed...

In this program, Jane Elliott conducts her famous blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise in Australia with a group composed of whites and Aboriginals. Some of these Aboriginals had been forcibly removed from their parents and were raised never knowing their true heritage. Their reactions to watching white Australians go through an exercise that epitomizes what Aboriginals go through every day are honest and straightforward and can help viewers to understand...

Hate is not only destructive, it is self-destructive, Elie Wiesel. In this moving personal testament, Nobel Laureate and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel talks with Bill Moyers about his own childhood experiences at Auschwitz and analyzes the source of Nazi hatred toward Jews, "We weren't human in their eyes." Wiesel reflects on his own apparent inability to hate, and discusses ethnic hatred at work in Bosnia and other Eastern European countries...

Jamshid and Huma Ebadi both came to the United States as young children with their families from Afghanistan under harrowing circumstances. As adults, with a young family of their own, they now live in a suburb of Denver, CO. Hear their stories of love, compassion, and of hope.