"Racial discrimination is any discrimination against any individual on the basis of their skin color, race or ethnic origin."
Discrimination based on a person's race or ethnicity, including examples of discrimination and strategies to combat it.
Introduction to Civil Rights Law: This includes an overview of the history of civil rights law and how it pertains to race discrimination.
Federal and State Laws: This is an overview of the federal and state laws that protect against race discrimination.
Race Discrimination Prohibited by Title VII: This includes an explanation of the categories of race discrimination prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact: This explains the two types of race discrimination and how they are applied.
Affirmative Action: This includes an explanation of the purpose of affirmative action in addressing race discrimination.
Harassment: This includes types of race-based harassment and how it is prohibited by law.
Retaliation: This covers retaliation against individuals who complain of race discrimination.
Disability Discrimination: This includes an overview of how race discrimination can intersect with disability discrimination.
Age Discrimination: This includes an overview of how race discrimination can intersect with age discrimination.
Intersectionality: This explains how race discrimination can impact individuals who also face discrimination based on other characteristics, like gender or sexual orientation.
Hiring Practices: This includes a discussion of how race discrimination can impact hiring practices.
Employment Policies: This includes an overview of how race discrimination can impact employment policies.
Pay Disparities: This includes an overview of how race discrimination can lead to pay disparities.
Workplace Accommodations: This includes an overview of how workplaces should make accommodations for employees who face race discrimination.
Complaint Process: This includes an explanation of the complaint process for individuals who face race discrimination.
Enforcement: This includes an overview of how race discrimination laws are enforced and the penalties for violation.
Prevention and Education: This includes a discussion of the importance of prevention and education to address race discrimination.
Employment Discrimination: This is when an employer treats employees differently based on their race, denies them equal opportunity or compensation, and creates a hostile work environment.
Housing Discrimination: This is when landlords or real estate agents discriminate against people of certain races in renting, buying, or selling property.
Education Discrimination: This is when educational institutions discriminate against students or staff based on their race, including segregation, unequal treatment, or harassment.
Police Discrimination: This is when law enforcement authorities use excessive force, racial profiling, or make arrests based on the suspect's race, rather than their behavior or actions.
Criminal Justice Discrimination: This is when judges or prosecutors discriminate against defendants based on their race while determining punishments or sentencing.
Public Accommodation Discrimination: This is when public places like restaurants, stores, hotels, or transportation systems deny services or harass individuals based on their race.
Voter Suppression: This is when laws, policies, or practices are used to suppress or prevent minorities from voting, including gerrymandering, voter ID requirements, or purging voter lists.
Immigration Discrimination: This is when immigration laws, policies, or practices discriminate against people based on their race or ethnicity, including selective enforcement, profiling, or deportation.
"Individuals can discriminate by refusing to do business with, socialize with, or share resources with people of a certain group."
"Governments can discriminate in a de facto fashion or explicitly in law, for example through policies of racial segregation, disparate enforcement of laws, or disproportionate allocation of resources."
"Some jurisdictions have anti-discrimination laws which prohibit the government or individuals from discriminating based on race (and sometimes other factors) in various circumstances."
"Some institutions and laws use affirmative action to attempt to overcome or compensate for the effects of racial discrimination."
"In some cases, this is simply enhanced recruitment of members of underrepresented groups; in other cases, there are firm racial quotas."
"Opponents of strong remedies like quotas characterize them as reverse discrimination, where members of a dominant or majority group are discriminated against."
"Racial discrimination is any discrimination against any individual on the basis of their skin color, race or ethnic origin."
"Individuals can discriminate by refusing to do business with, socialize with, or share resources with people of a certain group."
"Governments can discriminate in a de facto fashion or explicitly in law, for example through policies of racial segregation, disparate enforcement of laws, or disproportionate allocation of resources."
"Some jurisdictions have anti-discrimination laws which prohibit the government or individuals from discriminating based on race (and sometimes other factors) in various circumstances."
"Some institutions and laws use affirmative action to attempt to overcome or compensate for the effects of racial discrimination."
"In some cases, this is simply enhanced recruitment of members of underrepresented groups; in other cases, there are firm racial quotas."
"Opponents of strong remedies like quotas characterize them as reverse discrimination, where members of a dominant or majority group are discriminated against."
"Racial discrimination is any discrimination against any individual on the basis of their skin color, race or ethnic origin."
"Individuals can discriminate by refusing to do business with, socialize with, or share resources with people of a certain group."
"Governments can discriminate in a de facto fashion or explicitly in law, for example through policies of racial segregation, disparate enforcement of laws, or disproportionate allocation of resources."
"Some jurisdictions have anti-discrimination laws which prohibit the government or individuals from discriminating based on race (and sometimes other factors) in various circumstances."
"Some institutions and laws use affirmative action to attempt to overcome or compensate for the effects of racial discrimination."
"Opponents of strong remedies like quotas characterize them as reverse discrimination, where members of a dominant or majority group are discriminated against."