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Collects fifteen critical essays that offer varying perspectives on issues that relate to minorities and the law, and discusses minimum wage, voter ID laws, affirmative action, and more.

"Black and Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today. Black and Blue penetrates the physician's private sphere where racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and treatments. Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric beliefs about racial differences that permeate the general population. Within the world of medicine this racial folklore has infiltrated all of the medical sub-disciplines, from cardiology to gynecology to psychiatry. Doctors have thus imposed white or black racial identities upon every organ system of the human body, along with racial interpretations of black children, the black elderly, the black athlete, black musicality, black pain thresholds, and other aspects of black minds and bodies. The American medical establishment does not readily absorb either historical or current information about medical racism. For this reason, racial enlightenment will not reach medical schools until the current race-aversive curricula include new historical and sociological perspectives"--.

Describes an encounter between New Orleans police and several black residents on the Danziger Bridge six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall that ended in violence. Investigates the resulting cover-up, and the efforts to get the victims' families justice.

A collection of twenty-six essays that provides varying perspectives on voting rights, debating if everyone should be allowed to vote, if it should be mandatory, and the expansion of global voting rights and rights for women.

A collection of nine short stories that feature characters who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.

"Tells the 100-year history of queer activism in a series of revealing close-ups, first-person accounts, and intimate snapshots of LGBT pioneers and radicals. This diverse cast stretches from the Edwardian period to today, including first-person accounts of the key protest that is at the heart of the 2015 movie 'Stonewall'"--Amazon.com.

Looks at racial profiling and discrimination, discussing what it is, why it happens, the legalities surrounding racial profiling and more.

"In You Choose format, explores the history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, including the struggles minorities had in achieving the right to vote, enforcement of the law, and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s"--Provided by publisher.

Contains over twenty essays that offer varying perspectives on controversial issues related to the wage gap, such as whether it is narrowing, what causes it, and the effects of education on it.