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Alper, Paul – Higher Education Review, 2010
The new objects of public and open prejudice are Hispanics, primarily Mexicans due to their large population and their proximity to the United States. Because the Iraq War is such a disaster on all fronts, conservatives and reactionaries have shifted their patriotic fervour from invading foreign countries to inveighing against brown-skinned…
Descriptors: North Americans, Foreign Nationals, Fear, Stranger Reactions
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Sly, Dorothy I. – Guidance & Counselling, 1992
This article informs counselors about the changing position of Canadian churches and Biblical scholars with regard to wife abuse. Knowing of these advances, counselors can offer an alternative to victims who believe that the Christian response to partner abuse is silent submission; through reeducation, women can learn to empower themselves. (LKS)
Descriptors: Battered Women, Christianity, Church Role, Counseling Effectiveness
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Reed, Carole Ann; Lass, Harold – Canadian Social Studies, 1995
Explores the usefulness of employing an antiracist framework to teach Holocaust education. Maintains that different forms of discrimination are linked psychologically. Asserts that Holocaust education can be used also to teach about disabled individuals, homosexuals, and other groups who suffer discrimination. (CFR)
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Critical Thinking, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Grace, Andre P. – 2002
North Americans' fear and preoccupation with safety and security as a result of the September 11 attacks is similar to that felt by gays and lesbians in daily life. Queer persons are not part of the Christian family, according to Jerry Falwell and other rightist Christian fundamentalists, including those involved in transformative ministry and…
Descriptors: Activism, Anger, Anxiety, Churches