Towards an Understanding of Prejudice Racism and Community Violence

Love, Violence, Prejudice, And Decay; Displaying Various and Contradictory Aspects of Modern Humankind A Review of Un dieu un animal by Jérôme Ferrari

 This article is an attempt to review Un dieu un animal written by the French author Jérôme Ferrari, translated into Farsi and published by Cheshmeh Publication in 1396. The main goals of this article are to achieve the distinguishing features of the book as well as examining its strengths and weaknesses. The most prominent features of this book are: the confrontations of the past vs. present, ...

Stigmatization, Discrimination, Racism, Injustice, and Inequalities in the COVID-19 Era

A two-dimensional model that employs explicit and implicit attitudes to characterize prejudice.

In the authors' 2-dimensional model of prejudice, explicit and implicit attitudes are used to create 4 profiles: truly low prejudiced (TLP: double lows), aversive racists (AR: low explicit modern racism/high implicit prejudice), principled conservatives (PC: high explicit modern racism/low implicit prejudice), and modern racists (MR: double highs). Students completed an Asian Modern Racism Scal...

Xenophobia : A new pathology for a new South Africa ?

In 1994, South Africa became a new nation. Born out of democratic elections and inaugurated as the 'Rainbow Nation' by Nelson Mandela, this 'new South Africa' represents a fundamental shift in the social, political and geographical landscapes of the past. Unity has replaced segregation, equality has replaced legislated racism and democracy has replaced apartheid, at least in terms of the law. D...

Gender nonconformity as a target of prejudice, discrimination, and violence against LGB individuals.

Research into antigay violence has been limited by a lack of attention to issues of gender presentation. Understanding gender nonconformity is important for addressing antigay prejudice and hate crimes. We assessed experiences of gender-nonconformity-related prejudice among 396 Black, Latino, and White lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals recruited from diverse community venues in New York Ci...