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  2. Racial discrimination - Wikipedia

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    In such cases, racial discrimination can occur because someone is of an ethnicity defined as outside that race, or ethnic discrimination (or ethnic hatred, ethnic conflict, and ethnic violence) can occur between groups who consider each other to be the same race. Discrimination based on caste is similar; because caste is hereditary, people of ...

  3. Same-race discrimination - Wikipedia

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    In this case, race-white Boxing Commissioner William Pender performed direct discriminatory acts, while the race-black Commission Chairman Wilbert McClure failed to provide the promoter sufficient protection under his authority and co-operated in the unjust cancellation of a series of boxing events, causing financial harm to the promoter. A ...

  4. Racism - Wikipedia

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    Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g. apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices. The ideology underlying racist practices often assumes that humans can be subdivided ...

  5. Racial steering - Wikipedia

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    [26] This causes criminal behavior of the people within the area as "greater racial segregation appears to substantially increase violent crimes such as robberies and aggravated assaults." [27] However it could be argued that the area that an underprivileged person lives in dictates the criminal mentality of the individual. "Poor individuals ...

  6. Racial inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Racial profiling is defined as "any police-initiated action that relies on the race, ethnicity, or national origin, rather than the behavior of an individual or information that leads the police to a particular individual who has been identified as being, or having been, engaged in criminal activity."

  7. Should college essays touch on race? Some feel the ...

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    He described embracing his personality and defying his tendency to please others. The essay had humor — it centered on a water gun fight where he had victory in sight but, in a comedic twist, slipped and fell. But the essay also reflects on his feelings of not being “Black enough” and getting made fun of for listening to “white people ...

  8. Discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, [1] such as race, gender, age, species, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation. [2]

  9. Should college essays touch on race? Some feel the ...

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    When the Supreme Court ended affirmative action in higher education, it left the college essay as one of few places where race can play a role in admissions decisions.