Minorities - New Studies and Perspectives / John P. Hermann, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hermann, John P., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : IntechOpen, 2023.

Summary:

Minorities - New Studies and Perspectives 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.

Contents:

1. Introductory Chapter: Minorities - New Studies and Perspectives

By John R. Hermann

2. "With Great Power Comes Great Impressionability": A Study of the Relation between Stereotypes and Superheroes

By Samuel C. Van Vleet, Everrett Moore, Alvin Akibar, Azlynn Osborne and Yolanda Flores Niemann

3. Perspective Chapter: Is Inclusion Safe? The Importance of Community Among Women Who Sleep with Women (WSW)

By Tera McIntosh and Diana Reindl

4. Processes of Precarious Living Conditions: Young Men of Ethnic Minority Background Growing up in Socially Deprived Housing Areas in the Danish Welfare State

By Kirsten Elisa Petersen

5. Tiny Religious Minorities in the Middle East: The Case of the Bahai, Druze and Yazidi Minorities

By Yakub Halabi

6. Perspective Chapter: Internal Forced Displacement and Accumulation by Dispossession in Sierra de Guerrero

By J. Kenny Acuña Villavicencio and Georgina Vázquez Moreno

7. Acculturation Orientations among Russian Youth in Finland

By Anita Stasulane and Terhi-Anna Wilska

8. Disappearing Community and Preserved Identity: Indigenous Gottscheers in Slovenia

By Ksenija Šabec.

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ISBN:

1-83768-120-1