Hermann John R. (ed.) Minorities: New Studies and Perspectives

ITexLi, 2023. — 126 p. — ISBN 1837681201 9781837681204 1837681198 9781837681198 183768121X 9781837681211.This volume offers important and innovative research on the oppression of minorities by the majority. The treatment of minorities is explored from multiple dimensions in this academic work. Firstly, the book investigates the issue of lack of equal opportunity, including discrimination based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, ethnicity, and other factors. Secondly, the authors analyze institutional and structural barriers that prevent equal opportunity in various settings, such as healthcare, the criminal justice system, education, voting, government and corporate policies, and immigration and migration. Thirdly, the book delves into the concept of racial threats and critical race theory, including topics such as microaggressions, majority oppression, minority identity, and intersectionality. Finally, the authors present strategies for overcoming unfair treatment of minorities, such as affirmative action, civil rights legislation, court decisions, and corporate policies. Overall, this edited volume provides a diverse and contemporary examination of minority issues.Minorities - New Studies and Perspectives
“With Great Power Comes Great Impressionability”: A Study of the Relation between Stereotypes and Superheroes
Is Inclusion Safe? The Importance of Community Among Women Who Sleep with Women (WSW)
Processes of Precarious Living Conditions: Young Men of Ethnic Minority Background Growing up in Socially Deprived Housing Areas in the Danish Welfare State
Tiny Religious Minorities in the Middle East: The Case of the Bahai, Druze and Yazidi Minorities
Internal Forced Displacement and Accumulation by Dispossession in Sierra de Guerrero
Acculturation Orientations among Russian Youth in Finland
Disappearing Community and Preserved Identity: Indigenous Gottscheers in Slovenia