...Employment Discrimination in the Ethnically Diverse Workplace Tanya Kateri Hernandez Fordham University School of Law, THERNANDEZ@law.fordham.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, and the Labor and Employment Law Commons Recommended Citation Tanya Kateri Hernandez, Employment Discrimination in the Ethnically Diverse Workplace , 49 Judges' J. 33 (2010) Available at: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/14 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact tmelnick@law.fordham.edu. .. . .......... By Tanya Kateri Hernandez a1cial integrto has long been the touchstone of racial progress in the 0 workplace. But integration is only the beginning of the struggle to end racial discrimination. As workplaces become more diverse, they do nor necessarily becomie less racially discriminatory. Diverse workplaces may be characterized by antagonism between people ofdifferent races. Interethnic discrimination may exist along side the discrimination that has traditionally occurred between blacks and whites, i.e., non-white racial and ethnic groups may engage in disparate-treatment employment discrimination actionable...
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...Associate Program Material Religious and Ethnic Groups Paper Instructions Part I Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your own from the list below. Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) Christianity Evangelical Protestant Mainline Protestant Historically Black Churches Roman Catholic Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) Jehovah’s Witnesses Orthodox (Greek, Eastern) Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform) Buddhism (Theravada or Mahayana) Islam (Sunni, Shia, Sufism) Hinduism Racial/ethnic groups (based on divisions in U.S. Census Bureau documents) Asian (Asian descent) Black (African descent) Hispanic and Latino (South or Central American descent) Pacific Islander (Polynesian descent) White (European descent) Part II Write a 750- to 1,400-word paper in which you consider the following regarding the religious group and racial/ethnic group you selected: Religious group: How does your selected religious group differ from other religious groups (such as in their beliefs, worship practices, or values)? According to social and political views, the Mormon religion is different and therefore, is most noticeable than that of the population in general, and other religions. Their conservation towards political and culture issues are different. A vast amount of Mormons say that definite rulings of right and wrong are strongly held. The Mormons feel that the values they have are felt threatened often by...
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...Phoenix SOC/120-Introduction to Sociology Dr. March November 25, 2012 Sociological Issue-Racism Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids racial discrimination and persecution during the process of hiring, discharging, promoting, salary(pay), job training, fringe benefits, referrals, classifications, and other facets of occupations during and after employment on the foundation of color, race, religion, national origin, and sex (EEOC, 2011). The 2010 census results make available comprehensive household categorizations by race, age, relationship, and also showed statistics that those of Non-Hispanic Caucasian children at this time makeup the minority of new born babies in the U.S. underlining demographic alterations that could reform U.S. government policies concerning more than just civil rights (US Census). Prejudice, Racism, and Discrimination From the time when Christopher Columbus arrived to the “New World” Many aspects have transformed. Individuals from all around the globe throughout times past have immigrated to America so they could have the chance to live a free and better life. They arrived with the mentality to work earnestly as well as bring in money for their loved ones, but they were undoubtedly...
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...the three undesirable realms, not that Hell is a place of eternal damnation. Buddhism is still new in American culture but you still see Buddhist, just not as common as other countries. The biggest thing that they have contributed to American culture is the politeness and caring not for themselves but for other human beings. They have brought to the American culture that wealth is not the way to happiness. Actually, if you look at a lot of Buddhist countries, they are poor looking because they believe that wealth is not the way of happiness. There is a lot of prejudice and discrimination against Buddhist, epically in an America. The biggest reason is because Buddhism is still small to America. Although it is the fourth-largest religion in America (Jane Lampman, The Christian Science Monitor), people still discriminate against them. One of the biggest discriminations within the Buddhist...
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...A Personal Reflection on Race Is/ Race Ain’t The PBS documentary Race Is/ Race Ain’t focuses on the racially charged events at the Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital in Los Angeles, California in the 1980s and 1990s. Many people in the African American community felt like their families were not receiving proper treatment in other hospitals in Los Angeles, ran mostly by white people. They wanted a medical center close to their community where their families could feel safe and cared for in the best way possible. In 1972, the King Hospital was built in a predominantly African American community, those in the community saw the hospital as a political and personal gain for African Americans. In the 1980s, the Latino population doubled in Los Angeles,...
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...Racism and Discrimination in America According to MerriamWebster.com Racism is a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. As for discrimination it is the prejudice or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment. If these words exist in the dictionary it is bound to exist in the real world, and it does. Millions of minorities today are treated immorally just because of the color of their skin. People treat them as if they’re trash; people who don’t deserve to be treated humanely. In the US especially, African American, Latinos, and Native Americans have been the target of these racist and discrimination. To begin, African Americans...
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...|Adapting or conforming to the group of people. | Part II Answer the following questions in 150 to 350 words each: • Throughout most of U.S. history in most locations, what race has been the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? Throughout the most of the U.S. history in most locations American White race has been the majority with more than 300 million people living in the United States which includes non-Hispanic/Latino and Hispanic/Latino. American White race are also the majority in forty nine out of the fifty states with the exception being Hawaii. The most common ancestries are traced from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The United State is a very diverse country with both racially and ethnically groups. According to the United States Census Bureau White Americans with White American including non-Hispanic/Latino and Hispanic/Latino hold 72% of the population in the United States as of 2010. The White American is the majority in each region. This has been a very...
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...Immigrants come from all over to the United States because of the opportunities offered here. Latino immigrants face many problems and I want to focus on education. Culture from different races that come to America and how important the value of education is to these cultures. Also the troubles and boundaries that cultures face with education in America. People started emigrating to the United Stated many years ago. The article “Immigration” is from the The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia and is written by Eric Pullin. This article is a brief summary of immigration in America. Pullin briefly explains the emigration that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth century. A lot of immigrants emigrated to the U.S because of “educational...
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...ETH/125 July 20 2014 Erica Willis Race and Religion Race and religion are two of the biggest topics and reasons for discrimination today. This is because people do not understand others beliefs and ways and instead of learning more about a person or group of people they make jokes about them or choose to hate those people. It is important to learn about different cultures so we have a better understanding of that culture. I chose to look at the religion of Hinduism because I have no first-hand knowledge of this religion and I wanted to learn something about the religion. Hinduism can be traced back as far as 1500 (bc). (The Columbia encyclopedia, 2013). Hinduism also has nine beliefs. Reverence for revealed scriptures, all pervasive divinity, three worlds and cycles of creation, the law of karma and dharma, reincarnation and liberation, temples and the inner worlds, yoga guide by a satguru, compassion and non-injury and genuine respect for other faiths. (Hinduism today, 2009). The one thing that differs from most religious groups is the belief in reincarnation, Christianity, for example believes that you only have one life and when that life is over, you go either to heaven or to hell. The one thing that Hinduism has brought to America is yoga, as it I has become very popular over the last few years. One example of where Hindus have been discriminated against is in Malaysia. According to the pioneer (2010), Hindus in this country have been denied human rights in order to...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture. | | |wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn | | | | |Anti-Semitism |the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people | | |wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn | |Islamophobia |Extreme or irrational fear of all Islamic persons | | |wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn | |Xenophobia |Intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries | | |wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn | |Persecution |the act of persecuting (especially on the basis...
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...Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |Pertaining to or characteristic of a people, especially a group sharing a distinctive culture, | | |religion, language, or the like | |Anti-Semitism |Discrimination against or prejudice, or hostility towards Jews | |Islamophobia |Hatred or fear of Muslims or of their politics or culture | |Xenophobia |An unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange | |Persecution |A program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate a person based on their religion, race, | | |or beliefs | |Religious group |Belief in, or the worship of, a god or gods | Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your own from the list below. • Religious groups (based on http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/affiliations-all-traditions.pdf) o Christianity • Evangelical...
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...Dutch and African descent.As a black, as a educator and writer,i think Dubois exactly how double consciousness tastes like.So he spent his life to study the society of America and Africa1 intended to solve the racial problems. Paris Is Burning chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it.At the film ,the people think the transgender are crazy and sick ,but they think they are the most gorgeous things in the world .As a gay transgender man,they sometimes feel like they have to “choose” between the two, and they often live their life not through their perspective. Recently i watched a TV drama named The Knick.It looks at The Knickerbocker Hospital in New York during the early part of the twentieth century.There is a African-American doctor named Algernon Edwards,graduated at Harvard Medical School. People are very unfriendly to him, even the patients .The other doctors also have predictably racist reactions to Edwards.It shows that at that time ,a black is not allow to do so many thing even though he have right to do .so Edwards have to struggle against the racial discrimination since the time he have came to...
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...Name: Hasham Tariq Reg no: 12882 Subject: Research Proposal 1 (Rp1) Class: Tuesday 6 to 9 Assignment: Abstract/References of 10 research papers (Motivation/Discrimination) Submitted to: Dr Akif Hussain / Dr Imtiaz Subhani 1. When Searching Hurts: The Role of Information Search in Reactions to Gender Discrimination Abstract Two laboratory studies conducted with Dutch students explored women’s motivation to search for evidence of gender discrimination and its effects on psychological well-being. Study 1 (N = 161) considered situational self-relevance of one’s personal outcomes (personal failure or success) on women’s motivation to collect information about gender discrimination. Study 2 (N = 106) manipulated information search and studied its effects on well-being when information contains evidence of gender discrimination or personal failure. Results revealed that women are motivated to search for evidence of discrimination when outcomes are highly self-relevant (Study 1) or the need to search is high (Study 2). Furthermore women suffer from evidence of prejudice, but only when they are personally affected by this prejudice and evidence suggests it is pervasive. References -When Searching Hurts: The Role of Information Search in Reactions to Gender Discrimination Katherine Stroebe, Manuela Barreto and Naomi Ellemers SEX ROLES, Volume 62, Numbers 1-2 (2010), 60-76, DOI: 10.1007/s11199-009-9700-y Published online: 24 September 2009 # Springer Science...
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...In 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act which bans racial discrimination by federal workers. Before the Civil War, free blacks were not given the right to vote. Southern states were the main issue because they created a majority of the issues due to their stubborn belief that African Americans should not be given rights. In result, African Americans were denied the right to vote in most parts of the south. That is when the Voting Rights Act was enacted, and removed barriers to voting. This required change in locale’s electoral system. In order for this Act to be successful, it required change in voting procedures. There still lies a problem here, even though congress enacted this law, citizens in the South continued to give African...
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...For this report I am selecting a race, and a religious affiliation in which I do not belong. Our country is great on the fact it was formed by those of differing faiths, and ethnicities. I have chosen to write about the Hispanic and Latinos for my ethnic group, and Hinduism for my religious group. The Hindu religion is based around karma, and dharma. Karma is believed to be the actions, and intent of a person as an individual factor in the outcome of their future. An example of this is those who do good deeds, and help others will be rewarded positively in life for those deeds. Dharma in the Hindu faith is like Karma, but it is more of a concrete set of rights/duties, laws, virtues, etc. promoting in their eyes the right way of living. The followers of the Hindu faith differ from other religions as the perception of a God, or Gods is quite complex, and differs based on the beliefs of each individual. The perceptions of those who follow the Hindu faith are tolerant when met with others of a differing faith. In fact Hinduism itself has evolved throughout the years with various sub-faiths based on others religions. Hindus for the most part are an accepting, and peaceful religious group. They understand that others will have differing opinions, and are ok with that. Hinduism has contributed more than most will think to America. The practice of Yoga is one instance of something that has come from the Hindu faith. Vegetarianism comes from the art of Yoga, although not everyone...
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