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Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2009-04-18
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On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child....
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2006-01-01
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The intention of this paper is to take a look at a representation of what Canadians were reading about their Indians over seventy years of this century. The purpose is to determine what view of the Canadian Indian writers were extending in the popular national...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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1974-06-01
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For some, it is the 'Statue of Peace,' for others, the 'War Girl.' It is sad to witness how this single artwork can divide people so drastically. And it's not only Japanese citizens who have voiced opposition to the sculpture and its placement.
With this account of my...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2025-01-10
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The quest to understand the reason some continents enjoys a better life whereas some are not living close to it yet, resulted to the WHY question I found myself asking. Having experience life from two continent, two different people, two different culture and of...
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BoD - Books on Demand
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2024-05-20
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Ensuring equality, valuing diversity, fostering meaningful interaction and facilitating active citizenship and participation
Systemic discrimination is not immediately visible and is rarely the result of specific intent. Yet, it drives entrenched disadvantage and...
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Council of Europe
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2024-02-01
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The efficient functioning of democracies depends on social inclusion and societal integration, and these in turn depend on an understanding of, respect for and engagement with linguistic and cultural diversity.The Council of Europe advocates plurilingual and...
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Council of Europe
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2022-11-01
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A journey towards a democratic teacher ethos and a democratic culture in schoolsBeing a “democratic teacher” requires more than just being good at one’s subject. Among other things, it requires the ability to listen to learners, colleagues and parents and openness to...
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Council of Europe
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2022-02-01
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There is a question sometimes put to scholars, a doubt often latent in scholars' minds-How was it that Greek civilisation, with all its high ideals and achievements, fell so easily before what seems at first sight an altogether inferior culture? The difficulty is not...
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Books on Demand
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2020-09-10
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Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely,...
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Books on Demand
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2020-01-31
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This is written from memory, unfortunately. If I could have brought with me the material I so carefully prepared, this would be a very different story. Whole books full of notes, carefully copied records, firsthand descriptions, and the pictures-that's the worst loss....
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Books on Demand
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2019-03-25
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The family is older than humanity, and therefore cannot be called a human institution. A post office, now, is wholly human; no other creature has a post office, but there are families in plenty among birds and beasts; all kinds permanent and transient; monogamous,...
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Books on Demand
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2019-02-06
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Feminism, the extremist-and of late years the predominant cult of the Woman's Movement, is Masculinism.
It makes for such training and development in woman, of male characteristics, as shall equip her to compete with the male in every department of life; academic,...
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Books on Demand
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2018-11-28
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This work explains itself and is given to the world because it is needed. Tired of the obtuseness of Church and State; indignant at the injustice of both towards woman; at the wrongs inflicted upon one-half of humanity by the other half in the name of religion; finding...
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Books on Demand
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2018-11-28
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The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has been...
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Books on Demand
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2018-11-23
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After considering the historic page, and viewing the living world with anxious solicitude, the most melancholy emotions of sorrowful indignation have depressed my spirits, and I have sighed when obliged to confess, that either nature has made a great difference between...
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2018-10-17
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At the height of the Second World War, Switzerland decriminalised homosexuality.At the same time, France chose to introduce a law punishing homosexual relationships in certain circumstances. These two examples illustrate contradictory attitudes adopted by European...
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Conseil de l'Europe
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2018-09-18
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The Ground Tour is a journey starting in Vienna, cruising the outskirts of Rome, touching ground in Prato and Florence on our way to the depths of the Venice Lagoon.The tour will grind much too common assumptions about Italy's beauty and culture and will bring onto...
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Books on Demand
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2018-06-20
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This book is a part of SFQs ongoing work towards intersectionality and inclusiveness. It is even a protest against the growing right-wing extremism and racism in Sweden.This research used in-depth qualitative interviews with students to present a deeper intersectional...
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Books on Demand
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2018-01-15
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