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The book was one of twelve on the longlist for the Jhalak Prize in 2020, which is given to ethnic minority writers in the U.K. [6] Elsa Maishman of The Scotsman reviewed that the book was both an exploration of immigration history, which is particularly critical of perceived hypocrisy of left-wing anti-immigration politics, and a "call to arms ...
The 1982 reprinting was inspired by the success of a film based on the book, entitled Breaker Morant. George Witton's cousin, Cecily Adams of Castlecrag (a Sydney suburb), owned the copyright for Scapegoats of the Empire following George's death. Cecily was also aware of some additional documentation written by George, which he had always ...
In the Bible, a scapegoat is one of a pair of kid goats that is released into the wilderness, taking with it all sins and impurities, while the other is sacrificed. The concept first appears in the Book of Leviticus , in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of the community.
Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and consequent negative treatment. Scapegoating may be conducted by individuals against individuals (e.g. "he did it, not me!"), individuals against groups (e.g., "I couldn't see anything because of all the tall people"), groups against individuals (e.g., "He was ...
The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats is a 1997 book by the American author Jim Goad, in which he delineates some of his views about what he sees to be the disenfranchisement of lower-class white people, and how certain aspects of American society, such as racism and sexism, cover what he sees as a deeper concern relating to class conflict.
In Scapegoat, Dworkin compared the oppression of women to the persecution of Jews, [1] [failed verification] discussed the sexual politics of Jewish identity and antisemitism, and called for the establishment of a women's homeland as a response to the oppression of women, just as the Zionist movement had established a state for Jews.
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It is regarded as an influential book in the field, being one of the first to take an investigative approach to writing about his subject. In 1974, Scaduto wrote Scapegoat, an investigation into the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was executed in April 1936 for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. Scaduto's thesis was that ...