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Author: Steven Howard Medof Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS Bias, Bigotry, Discrimination, and Hate Crimes Against Native Americans and Alaskan Natives in the 21st Century by Steven Howard Medof Master of Arts in American Indian Studies University of California, Los Angeles, 2022 Professor Shannon Speed, Chair This thesis explores discrimination, bias, and bigotry perpetrated by the White majority as means of hate crimes against American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AIAN) in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Moreover, this paper explores the historical policies of termination and assimilation, such as government-sponsored genocide policies as referenced by the termination policy, boarding school era, broken treaties, and social stratification of "us versus them." I have included a chapter dedicated to missing and murdered American Indian women and girls, which continues unabated as of 2023. Herein, I explore patterns of US infringement upon American Indians' rights of self-determination and self-governance and question the responsibility for perpetuating bias within the entertainment, sports, and advertising industries. The thesis also focuses on discriminations in schools and healthcare and the psychological effects it caused on the intended minority. In addition, it reflects on the importance of American Indians' traditional values and culture. Although my intended goal is to highlight continuous struggles of Native Americans at the hands of others, it should be noted that Indigenous people have, for the most part, overcome stumbling blocks that are mentioned in the body of this paper. As examples they are active participants in fields of law, education, medicine, the arts, as well as in areas of economic development and self-governance of their tribal nations and associations. They are proud people who continue to engage in their diaspora and maintain language revitalization programs, self-governance, and cultural and traditional values.
Author: Steven Howard Medof Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS Bias, Bigotry, Discrimination, and Hate Crimes Against Native Americans and Alaskan Natives in the 21st Century by Steven Howard Medof Master of Arts in American Indian Studies University of California, Los Angeles, 2022 Professor Shannon Speed, Chair This thesis explores discrimination, bias, and bigotry perpetrated by the White majority as means of hate crimes against American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AIAN) in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Moreover, this paper explores the historical policies of termination and assimilation, such as government-sponsored genocide policies as referenced by the termination policy, boarding school era, broken treaties, and social stratification of "us versus them." I have included a chapter dedicated to missing and murdered American Indian women and girls, which continues unabated as of 2023. Herein, I explore patterns of US infringement upon American Indians' rights of self-determination and self-governance and question the responsibility for perpetuating bias within the entertainment, sports, and advertising industries. The thesis also focuses on discriminations in schools and healthcare and the psychological effects it caused on the intended minority. In addition, it reflects on the importance of American Indians' traditional values and culture. Although my intended goal is to highlight continuous struggles of Native Americans at the hands of others, it should be noted that Indigenous people have, for the most part, overcome stumbling blocks that are mentioned in the body of this paper. As examples they are active participants in fields of law, education, medicine, the arts, as well as in areas of economic development and self-governance of their tribal nations and associations. They are proud people who continue to engage in their diaspora and maintain language revitalization programs, self-governance, and cultural and traditional values.
Author: Barbara Perry Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816543992 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 172
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Hate crimes against Native Americans are a common occurrence, Barbara Perry reveals, although most go unreported. In this eye-opening book, Perry shines a spotlight on these acts, which are often hidden in the shadows of crime reports. She argues that scholarly and public attention to the historical and contemporary victimization of Native Americans as tribes or nations has blinded both scholars and citizens alike to the victimization of individual Native Americans. It is these acts against individuals that capture her attention. Silent Victims is a unique contribution to the literature on hate crime. Because most extant literature treats hate crimes—even racial violence—rather generically, this work breaks new ground with its findings. For this book, Perry interviewed nearly 300 Native Americans and gathered additional data in three geographic areas: the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest, the Great Lakes, and the Northern Plains. In all of these locales, she found that bias-related crime oppresses and segregates Native Americans. Perry is well aware of the history of colonization in North America and its attendant racial violence. She argues that the legacy of violence today can be traced directly to the genocidal practices of early settlers, and she adds valuable insights into the ways in which “Indians” have been constructed as the Other by the prevailing culture. Perry’s interviews with Native Americans recount instances of appalling treatment, often at the hands of law enforcement officials. In her conclusion, Perry draws from her research and interviews to suggest ways in which Native Americans can be empowered to defend themselves against all forms of racist victimization.
Author: Cheryl Redhorse Bennett Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816545219 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 233
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Our Fight Has Just Begun is a timely and urgent work. The result of more than a decade of research, it revises history, documents anti-Indianism, and gives voice to victims of racial violence. Navajo scholar Cheryl Redhorse Bennett reveals a lesser-known story of Navajo activism and the courageous organizers that confronted racial injustice and inspired generations. Illuminating largely untold stories of hate crimes committed against Native Americans in the Four Corners region of the United States, this work places these stories within a larger history, connecting historical violence in the United States to present-day hate crimes. Bennett contends that hate crimes committed against Native Americans have persisted as an extension of an “Indian hating” ideology that has existed since colonization, exposing how the justice system has failed Native American victims and families. While this book looks deeply at multiple generations of unnecessary and ongoing pain and violence, it also recognizes that this is a time of uncertainty and hope. The movement to abolish racial injustice and racially motivated violence has gained fierce momentum. Our Fight Has Just Begun shows that racism, hate speech, and hate crimes are ever present and offers recommendations for racial justice.
Author: David Lester Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher ISBN: 0398083479 Category : Crime Languages : en Pages : 201
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It is believed that Native Americans have a high frequency of criminal behavior and in addition are subjected to great discrimination by the criminal justice system, as are other minority groups. This book explores the data and research that has been conducted on criminal behavior in Native Americans in order to see whether these beliefs are indeed valid. To prepare this book the author researched and read all published articles on criminal behavior in Native Americans. Chapters are grouped into five sections. Part 1 covers the personal and social conditions of Native Americans and the frequency of crime and alcohol. Part 2 explores crimes and misdemeanors, murder, child abuse and neglect. Part 3 examines theories of Native American criminal behavior, social structure, and social process theories. Part 4 covers the criminal justice system, Native American policing, law and the courts, prisons and probation, and discrimination in the criminal justice system. Part 5 provides three individual cases and three major conclusions drawn from research and commentary in this book. The reader is also provided with sample table forms of arrest rates, homicide rates by age, and rates of incarceration of various racial and/or ethnic groups. The causes of criminal behavior in Native Americans may differ from the causes of criminal behavior in other ethnic groups, and the useful preventative strategies may correspondingly differ. This text examines the extent to which those possibilities may be true.
Author: Jack Levin Publisher: Springer ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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This expose goes beyond bemoaning our present crisis by setting forth practical guidelines on how to stem the rising tide of hate. The authors courageously force readers not only to face the spiraling problem around them, but the prejudices within themselves.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309452961 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 583
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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Author: U. S. Commission on Civil Rights Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781505893373 Category : Languages : en Pages : 52
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This report examines relations between Native Americans and border town residents and officials, specifically, the nature and status of discrimination Native Americans may face in communities contiguous with American Indian reservations, and the extent of discrimination faced by Native Americans in border towns today; whether the situation currently faced by Native Americans is different from that which they faced in previous years; and the efforts Native Americans and other border town residents and officials have taken to improve relations and reduce incidents of discrimination.
Author: Lisa F. Berkman Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780195083316 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 428
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This book shows the important links between social conditions and health and begins to describe the processes through which these health inequalities may be generated. It reviews a range of methodologies that could be used by health researchers in this field and proposes innovative future research directions.
Author: Amnesty International Publisher: ISBN: Category : Civil rights workers Languages : en Pages : 112
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More than one in three Native American or Alaska Native women will be raped at some point in their lives. Most do not seek justice because they known they will be met with inaction or indifference. As one support worker said, "Women don't report because it doesn't make a difference. Why report when you are just going to be revictimized?" Sexual violence against women is not only a criminal or social issue, it is a human rights abuse. This report unravels some of the reasons why Indigenous women in the USA are at such risk of sexual violence and why survivors are so frequently denied justice. Chronic under-resourcing of law enforcement and health services, confusion over jurisdiction, erosion of tribal authority, discrimination in law and practice, and indifference -- all these factors play a part. None of this is inevitable or irreversible. The voices of Indigenous women throughout this report send a message of courage and hope that change can and will happen.
Author: Steven Howard Medof
Author: Steven Howard Medof
Author: Barbara Perry
Author: Cheryl Redhorse Bennett
Author: David Lester
Author: Jack Levin
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Author: U. S. Commission on Civil Rights
Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
Author: Lisa F. Berkman
Author: Amnesty International