Author: Robin Peguero
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 153870630X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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The "exciting" and "clever" debut thriller (New York Times Book Review): No one knows what happened that night. Seven strangers must decide. Earl Thomas, a straight-laced taxman with his fair share of police encounters, is the begrudging foreperson in a high-stakes trial in Miami. Laura Hurtado-Perez is a physician whose unassuming manner conceals a private pain. Joseph Cole is the founder of his local neighborhood watch, unduly obsessed with the families around him. Along with four others, these jurors of varying ages and walks of life whose paths would likely never have otherwise crossed must come together to make one of the most important decisions of their lives. On the night Melina Mora, a free-spirited woman both proud and kind, was murdered, she was seen with a young man of Gabriel Soto’s description. Two strands of her hair were found in his bedroom. Sandy Grunwald, a young prosecutor whose political ambitions depend on securing a conviction, finds herself pitted against Jordan Whipple, a preening public defender armed with a freshly discovered, dynamite piece of evidence on the eve of the trial—if the Honorable Darla Tackett will admit it. What Sandy, Jordan, and Judge Tackett all know, however, is that the criminal justice system is complicated, and everyone has a story—especially the jury. And it’s their experiences, biases, and beliefs that will ultimately shape the verdict. With striking originality and expert storytelling, Robin Peguero’s debut novel explores the prejudice that hangs over every trial in America. You’ve never read a legal thriller quite like this. There’s never been a thriller writer quite like Peguero. And you will not be able to predict how it all ends.
Author: Stuart Svonkin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231106399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Recounts how Jewish organizations for fighting antisemitism became leaders against all prejudice.
Author: Lawrence D. Bobo
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674013292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The authors explore a lengthy controversy surrounding fishing, hunting, and gathering rights of Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin. The book uses a carefully designed survey of public opinion to explore the dynamics of prejudice and political contestation, and to further our understanding of how and why racial prejudice enters into politics in the U.S.
Author: Leah N. Gordon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623844X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Gordon provides an intellectual history of the concept of racial prejudice in postwar America. In particular, she asks, what accounts for the dominance of theories of racism that depicted oppression in terms of individual perpetrators and victims, more often than in terms of power relations and class conflict? Such theories came to define race relations research, civil rights activism, and social policy. Gordon s book is a study in the politics of knowledge production, as it charts debates about the race problem in a variety of institutions, including the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago s Committee on Education Training and Research in Race Relations, Fisk University s Race Relations Institutes, Howard University s "Journal of Negro Education," and the National Conference of Christians and Jews."
Author: J. A. Jance
Publisher: Avon
ISBN: 9780380755479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Top ten New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's classic tale of suspense featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont and his desperate race to track down a twisted killer. Japanese businessman Tadeo Kurobashi had many passions, including computers, poetry, money, and Samurai lore. So his suicide method of choice would naturally be the ancient art of seppuku -- what the uninitiated call a?!ra--kiri.a'ut despite the bloody Samurai sword Kurobashi clutches tightly in his lifeless hand, Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont senses the dead software magnate played a less active role in his own demise. Because glaring errors have been made in the time--honoured Asian death ritual -- which has Beau looking for someone with a less traditional passionaY'r cold--blooded homicide.
Author: Janet K. Swim
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080539440
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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Prejudice: The Target's Perspective turns the tables on the way prejudice has been looked at in the past. Almost all of the current information on prejudice focuses on the person holding prejudiced beliefs. This book, however, provides the first summary of research focusing on the intended victims of prejudice. Divided into three sections, the first part discusses how people identify prejudice, what types of prejudice they encounter, and how people react to this prejudice in interpersonal and intergroup settings. The second section discusses the effect of prejudice on task performance, assessment of ones own abilities, self-esteem, and stress. The final section examines how people cope with prejudice, including a discussion of coping mechanisms, reporting sexual harassment, and how identity is related to effective coping. - Includes an introduction, the consequences of prejudice, and how to cope with prejudice - The editors are top researchers in the field of prejudice - All the contributors are major figures in the social psychological analysis of intergroup relationships
Author: Jillian Roberts
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459820932
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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On the Playground: Our First Talk About Prejudice focuses on introducing children to the complex topic of prejudice. Crafted around a narrative between a grade-school-aged child and an adult, this inquiry-focused book will help children shape their understanding of diversity so they are better prepared to understand, and question, prejudice witnessed around them in their day-to-day lives and in the media. Dr. Jillian Roberts discusses types of discrimination children notice, what prejudice means, why it's not okay, how to stand up against it and how kids can spread a message of inclusion and acceptance in the world around them.
Author: Angela Stanton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999279519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Dismissed with Prejudice is the exciting, page-turning account of the court case that set out to prove the truth behind a reality television star's life of crime. Karma is never too kind to those who set out to deceive. Dismissed with Prejudice is the sequel to Angela Stanton's #1 bestselling memoir Lies Of Real Housewife, which opened the floodgates to reveal explicit details of "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Phaedra Parks' role in numerous complex criminal schemes while functioning as an Atlanta lawyer. Park's denial of these allegations led to a 30 million dollar lawsuit against Stanton and the publisher of Lies for defamation. As Stanton's legal team built their case to prove the truth of Stanton's memoir, Parks and her legal team started looking for an exit door. Many truths unfolded during the case. As Stanton's lawyer uncovered more and more evidence to prove Parks' involvement in the crimes described in Stanton's book, Parks herself fought to avoid testifying. Witness the fall from grace of a self-described "southern belle." When her lies leave her in paralysis and she is unable to generate any more excuses to cover up her duplicitous life. What follows is the discovery that the only solution to the quagmire is to face the cold, hard facts. This dynamic, sometimes tragic and ultimately victorious account, Dismissed with Prejudice by national bestselling author Angela Stanton brings closure to the high stakes court drama between Angela Stanton and Phaedra Parks. Sensationally written, Dismissed with Prejudice is the highly anticipated follow up to Lies of a Real Housewife.
Author: Adam Adatto Sandel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674726847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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We associate prejudice with ignorance and bigotry and consider it a source of injustice. Can prejudice have a legitimate place in moral and political judgment? Adam Sandel shows that prejudice, properly understood, is not an obstacle to clear thinking but an essential aspect of it. The aspiration to reason without preconceptions is misguided.
Author: James M. Jones
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Primarily discussing black-white relations, this book provides a useful paradigm for examining and understanding broader issues of prejudice and racism, and allows students to understand the factors which lead to these contemporary social problems.
