Sentences with phrase «of racial hostility»

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In her groundbreaking book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander notes that «racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive.

There is a fundamental difference between the normal joshing between members of various ethnic and racial groups — what Dawidowicz referred to as low - key «antagonisms» — and the conventional understanding of anti-Semitism as irrational and unfounded hostility toward Jews, often accompanied by discrimination in employment and housing, for example, and by violent attacks.

On the one side is the Book of Esther, revealing «the fiery heart of Jewish nationalism in the third century B.c.,» and on the other the Books of Ruth and Jonah with their appeals against racial prejudice and international hostility.

More than 4 out of 5 evangelicals (84 %), practicing Christians (85 %), and those who attended church in the past week (85 %) said there was a lot of anger and hostility among the different ethnic and racial groups in America today.

The great mistake since then was to institutionalize a supposedly benign race consciousness that has generated new and potentially greater racial suspicion and hostility than we had before the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956.

«Us» vs. «them», cultivating fear and hatred towards out - groups that are deemed different (ethnically, ideologically, religiously, etc.), and vicious and virulent attacks against them, are all part of an unsettling picture of growing ethnic and racial hostility.

It focused on cultural experiences and attitudes — hostility to the rules and regulations of social liberalisation, national pride and racial prejudice and wrapped an appeal to economic experiences within it: Britain would be better off economically because Britain is great; freeing ourselves of fussy and politically correct regulation would release economic energy; stopping immigration would mean there's more money to go around.

Bradley talks about the role of the nation's 10 equity assistance centers, including the IDRA - directed South Central Collaborative for Equity, in addressing these civil rights issues (gender discrimination, sexual abuse, racial hostility, etc.) and working to make schools work for all learners.

The fact that interracial hostility and intolerance is one of the harms mentioned implies that the district is aware that simply putting students of different races is not enough and that a set plan is needed in order to reduce racial intolerance.

First, Congress, by passing Title VII as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1866, has made clear its hostility to racial discrimination in employment.

«Despite Iowa's impressive civil - rights history on the books, the state has grappled with racial prejudices and hostility and systemic racism that have stilted the growth and development of its black population and legal community,» she said.

The defendant appealed against conviction for an offence of racially aggravated threatening behaviour, contrary to the Public Order Act 1986, s 4 and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (CDA 1998), s 31 (1)(a), arguing that the phrase used was not capable of demonstrating hostility based on membership of a racial group.