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"Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook, Third Edition remains the most comprehensive reference source on bias-motivated violence committed in the United States. The book contains vital history on hate crime legislation, provides a detailed chronology of recent events, and offers the most up-to-date information on its prevalence and the affected religious, racial, and other targeted communities, such as Jewish Americans and Sikh Americans. Dozens of expert...
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"This first full-length survey of American civil rights "cold cases" examines unsolved racially motivated murders over nearly four decades, beginning in 1934. The author covers all cases reviewed by the federal government to date, as well as a larger number of cases that were ignored without official explanation."--Publisher description.
64) Fagbug
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Erin Davies became a victim of a hate crime because of a rainbow sticker on her VW Beetle. Her car was vandalized with the words 'fag' and 'u r gay' on the driver's side window and hood. Despite initial shock and embarrassment, Davies decided to embrace what happened by leaving the graffiti on her car. She took her car, now known worldwide as the 'Fagbug,' on a 58-day trip around the United States and Canada. Now viewers can follow her journey and...
66) American bully
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Follows the lives of seven teenagers during the span of one highly charged day. The day's events begin innocently and then, set in motion by a high school prank, the group is gradually cast further from the apparent safety of their 'hometown.' They are inexorably drawn into a taut and ferocious climax in the middle of their own desperate nowhere. A haunting and relevant film that confronts the harrowing and potent menace that lurks just under the...
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Hate Crimes in the Heartland is a documentary film and community outreach project by Emmy Award winner Rachel Lyon. Like no other documentary exploring this topic, Heartland portrays the shocking violence rooted in America's history of racial hatred through the lens of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where two hate crimes, over 90 years apart, are impacting human rights, education and communities today. This is an in-depth analysis of current and past hate crimes...
68) Violence against queer people: race, class, gender, and the persistence of anti-LGBT discrimination
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"Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community--white, middle class men--and largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a larger share of the violence--racial minorities, the poor, and women. In Violence against Queer People, sociologist Doug Meyer offers the first investigation of anti-queer violence that focuses...
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