Question of Sovereignty, A: Cooperative Federalism Abandoned in Fight Against Segregation
Each new administration renegotiates the tightrope between national and state jurisdiction. Many of the important programs of the New Deal were intergovernmental in nature, what is often called cooperative federalism The federal government provided ...
Are We Social Beings?: Identity and Culture
"Are We Social Beings?" looks at the relationship between personality and culture while contrasting the atomistic and societal views of the self represented by Descartes and Hegel. Using the endangered culture of the Laplanders in Sweden as the basi...
Race, Ethnicity and Family: Racial Stereotypes and Discrimination
Race has always played an important role in American society. Often, racial differences give rise to ugly stereotypes, which in turn fuel bigotry and discrimination
Race, Ethnicity and Family: Immigrant Families in the United States
Discrimination based on race or ethnicity is an issue that affects and has affected millions of people who have come to the United States to live. When tension and fear are at their highest, as in post 9/11 America, anti-immigrant sentiment often r...
Parents and Children.: Gay and Lesbian Parenting
Profile of "Our Family Coalition," an organization that serves families with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members in the San Francisco Bay area.
Immigrants at Work in the Nineteenth Century
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris talks about the plight of the immigrants who came to the United States to work during the Industrial Revolution and beyond. In many cases, Professor Kessler-Harris explains, it was the men who immigrat...
Manifest Destiny?: Mine Workers Face Discrimination and Exploitation
Laborers are urgently needed to support this new mining enterprise in California. Young men from as far away as China look upon this as a golden opportunity and begin to emigrate in large numbers. But when they arrive they face violence at the hands...
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, The
This clip explains that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission monitors and regulates employer/employee relations. Among the areas the EEOC oversees are job postings, descriptions and interviews, as well as job advancements, disciplinary action...
The Role of Gender: Women in the Workplace
The experiences of men and women in the workplace are often very different. Women frequently must contend with gender-based discrimination. Although the courts got involved in gender-related employment issues in the 1970's, the burden of fighting ...
Different Strokes: Mitigating the Distrust Associated with Prejudice
Most people would like to believe that they're not prejudiced, that they don't hold unjustified negative attitudes toward the members of out groups. Mahzarin Banaji illustrates how the use of the Implicit Association Test can help people realize...