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Irish Travellers are an ethnic and cultural minority group who have lived in Ireland for centuries and experience overt discrimination throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] [ 84 ] In nature, such discrimination is similar to antiziganism (prejudice against the Roma ) [ 85 ] in the United Kingdom and Europe, [ 84 ] as well as ...
Redlining is a discriminatory practice in which financial services are withheld from neighborhoods that have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities. [2] Redlining has been most prominent in the United States, and has mostly been directed against African Americans, as well as Mexican Americans in the Southwest. [3]
In the U.S., Italian Americans initially encountered an established Protestant-majority Northern European culture. For a time, they were viewed mainly as construction and industrial workers, chefs, plumbers, or other blue collar workers. Like the Irish before them, many entered police and fire departments of major cities. [8]
Commenary by Eric Payne of the Central Valley Urban Institute.
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A 2009 study published in Deviant Behavior by sociologists Matthew R. Lee, Shaun A. Thomas, and Graham C. Ousey examined and extended the Cracker Culture/ Black Redneck thesis and found that, "When counties are divided into south and non-south sub-samples, the results are also consistent: a cracker=black redneck culture effect is evident for ...
The concept of digital redlining is an extension of the practice of redlining in housing discrimination, [2] [3] a historical legal practice in the United States and Canada dating back to the 1930s where red lines were drawn on maps to indicate poor and primarily black neighborhoods that were deemed unsuitable for loans or further development ...