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What Happens When a Survivor Reports a Hate Crime or Incident?
No full textThis paper presentation examines the experiences of individuals who reported hate crimes or incidents to organizations in Edmonton, Canada, and how those organizations responded. The reporting of hate crimes and incidents in Canada increased by 72% from 2019 to 2021 (Moreau, 2022). Research reveals the significant harm caused by experiencing hate crimes and incidents for survivors of hate crimes and incidents and their communities. While underreporting of hate crimes and incidents is also well documented in research, what is less understood are the experiences of survivors who report hate crimes and incidents to organizations. Through Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), we sought to understand individuals’ experiences reporting hate crimes and incidents to organizations in Edmonton, Alberta. Eighteen people who had reported hate crimes and incidents to organizations in Edmonton over the past five years participated in 20 semi-structured interviews during this qualitative descriptive study. They shared several insights. Firstly, how organizations respond to reports of hate crimes and incidents does not reliably meet the needs of people victimized by these occurrences and can significantly impact survivors. Secondly, understandings and experiences of hate crimes and incidents and how organizations respond to them are based in lived experiences of historical and ongoing systemic and societal discrimination. Thirdly, interpersonal relationships, existing knowledge and beliefs, and previous experiences influence people’s choices to report a hate crime or incident. These insights have implications for organizations and governments supporting survivors of hate crimes and incidents. Timely, consistent, victim-centred, and evidence-based services that address systemic gaps must be a priority
Prohibiting Caste Discrimination in the U.S. Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964
No full textThe information technology boom in 1990 saw an exponential increase in the migration of I.T. workers from India to the United States of America. Currently, there are about 2.7 million people of Indian origin living in the U.S. It is the fastest-growing immigrant group in the U.S.
However, a survey conducted by Equality Labs (NGO) between 2016 -17 among the Indian origin Americans found that the practice of caste discrimination (an extreme form of apartheid) found in India has been transmuted to the U.S.— establishment of caste organizations; discrimination of lower caste Indians at establishment supervised or owned by upper-caste Indians; prohibition of inter-caste marriages; use of caste slurs against Dalits (ex-untouchables).
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, author of the Indian Constitution in 1917, rightly predicted, “if the Hindus migrate to other regions on the earth, the Indian caste would be a world problem.” His prediction has come true. The prevailing caste discrimination among the Indian diaspora in the United States of America raises an important question —can’t the Civil rights Act of 1964 and a host of equality clauses be invoked to abolish caste discrimination in the U.S.? This paper argues that caste can be a valid ground for discrimination in the U.S., drawing from the United Kingdom experience—Britain has a substantial number of immigrants from India. In Chandhok & Anor v Tirkey, UKEAT 0190_14_1912, the British Employment Court held that caste discrimination is unlawful even though it is not explicitly mentioned in the U.K.Equality Act,2010. This paper argues that U.S. legal institutions could adopt the U.K. approach to prohibit caste discrimination
Developing a Digital Critical Edition of Tolkien Fanzines
Get PDFThe presentation will tell two stories at the intersection of print and digital media: why and how they are developing a digital critical edition of the J.R.R. Tolkien fanzine Entmoot (1965-1966) from the S. Gary Hunnewell Tolkien Fanzine Collection at Raynor Memorial Libraries, and what the fanzine teaches us about building and preserving public digital scholarship in this new media moment. They will share their project goals and discuss how they designed and developed the project over the past year. They will also reflect on genre and media in the context of the new web publishing support service from the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Raynor Memorial Libraries
Language, Rhetoric, and Linguistic Practices for Conceptualizing Hate and Its Promotion
No full textThe 2023 International Conference on Hate Studies, held at Spokane Community College, featured the theme of The Challenges of Hate in the 21st Century. The panel Language, Rhetoric, and Linguistic Practices for Conceptualizing Hate and Its Promotion included the following papers: A Heuristic Analysis of the Hateful Discourse in Buffalo Shooter\u27s Manifesto, Michael Waltman; A Speech Pragmatics Comparison of Standard and Reverse Hate Speech, Alexander Brown; The Limits of Using an Anti-Semitism Rhetoric Against the Anti-Zionist Discourse: The Case of Jewish Voice for Peace, Haoua Lebba
Encountering Our Common Humanity Through Many Arts
No full textRev. Gen Heywood offers an overview of how the Faith Leaders and Leaders of Conscience of Eastern Washington and North Idaho have experimented with using visual arts, storytelling, vigils, and solidarity to raise up our common humanity in an environment of hostility from Christian Dominionist and white supremacists.
This presentation includes The story of developing an interfaith and non-faith coalition to respond thoughtfully and quickly to racism, poverty, violence, and ecological devastation. An overview of how the three core principles, 1. Show up 2. Risk failure to gain success and 3. It doesn’t matter who gets the credit – just get the job done, have been experienced. Insight into plans developing through learning from other countries about the use of the arts in public spaces to own the crimes of our national and local past.
Eastern Washington and North Idaho’s past and present history offers a unique setting to experiment with addressing the wrongs of our distant and recent past. Faith Leaders and Leaders of Conscience have built relationships with people of differing faiths and community organizations that seek to overcome racism, poverty, violence, and ecological devastation. People of faith and non-faith organizations working together can raise the conscience of our leaders and neighbors. The use of the arts uniquely raises our common humanity and helps develop ways to heal the divisions in our communities and potentially across the world
Particularizing Hate: Recording and Reporting with a Local Lens
No full textThe 2023 International Conference on Hate Studies, held at Spokane Community College, featured the theme of The Challenges of Hate in the 21st Century. The panel Particularizing Hate: Recording and Reporting with a Local Lens included the following papers: An Insider\u27s Look at Local White Supremacy, Marie Eddy Antisemitism: Local and Global Manifestations of Hate, Tamar Malino Films that Ignite Hindutva Furor, Gloria Chien Reflections on a Long Career Reporting on Hate, Connie Morlin Unlocking the Master Narrative: History and Intercultural Communication, Scott Finni
The Role of Organized Psychology in Inspiring Hope and Preventing Hate Victimization: Recommendations from a South African Hate and Bias Monitoring Initiative
Get PDFPsychology must have as its primary focus the well-being of humans, communities, and societies and cannot be detached from – or even neutral about – our social or political systems. For those who are impacted by hate, the focus on their well-being has never mattered more. In South Africa, which is the focal point of our research, and the world, hate victimization targeting people based on identity factors like race, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation is becoming more prevalent. Given the menacing intensification of hate, how is psychology as a profession, science, and discipline keeping the pulse of society at large? The South African Hate Crimes Working Group (HCWG) conducted a five-year longitudinal research study to assess the impact and nature of hate in South Africa. It is also the first study of this nature conducted in Africa. The Psychological Society of South Africa served as research lead for the HCWG, a multi-sectoral network of civil society organizations, utilizing the customized HCWG Monitoring Form as a research instrument. A total of N = 945 cases were quantitatively analyzed providing descriptive information. Key results inform the role of scientific and professional organizations representing psychology in preventing hate. Not only is there the need for policy and legislative changes to effectively address hate victimization, but most importantly the significance of attending to the impact of hate, including hopelessness, distrust, and dignity lost, is indicated. Based on the findings, recommendations underscore the ways in which global and nationally representative psychological associations may contribute to improved measures of prevention, add their voice to disrupting intolerance and condemn the ubiquitous rhetoric of bigotry that elicits hate-based victimization. And, in doing so, inspire hope for humanity
On Liberation Psychology, Hate, Hope, and Healing
Get PDFEntering the third year of the COVID-19 era, the United States faces myriad problems with hate speech, misinformation, racial and politically based violence, and deep-rooted institutional abuses. Oppression of minorities making up the majority of the population contributes to mood disorders such as anxiety, depression, and panic disorders. The problem of hate has been an active study by psychologists since World War II, but as of yet publications uniting interdisciplinary hate studies and community psychology are sparse compared to other interests. This essay addresses one such theory, liberation psychology, and how its approach may guide clinicians and institutions to a better understanding and support of communities and individuals with marginalized identities. The essay uses the lens of addressing hate to discuss the main interventions that make up the practical application of liberation psychology, not limited to the use of testimonios (stories of oppression), conscientization (a daily awakening to the impact of oppression), and praxis, how all human service providers should mobilize their resources and education in service of addressing hate against oppressed communities
Perioperative Dexmedetomidine Use in Pediatric Surgical Patients: Preliminary Findings
No full textEmergence agitation (EA) is a transient dissociated state of consciousness occurring in 10-30% of pediatric patients after undergoing general anesthesia. Although it is a short-lived cluster of perceptual and psychomotor disturbing behaviors it can increase the risk of self-injury, additional medication administration, and longer recovery room stay. A comprehensive review of the evidence found high levels of heterogeneity in study design, methodical approach, dosing, administration type, and timing of administration, however, consistently found that perioperative low dose IV dexmedetomidine administration to be efficacious in reducing emergence agitation, postoperative pain, vomiting, and number of rescue analgesia and antiemetics after general anesthesia.The purpose of this project was to evaluate current anesthesia practice surrounding perioperative dexmedetomidine use in pediatric elective surgery at a large tertiary medical center in eastern Washington
Servant-Leadership in Nursing Education
Get PDFRecent changes in healthcare policy including the sentinel paper from the Institutes of Medicine, now known as the National Academy of Medicine, 2010 report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health and the most recent, The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity reports have demonstrated the changing role of nurses creating a growing need for nurse leaders. The healthcare industry is seeking to find a leadership style that will facilitate the goals of providing quality care in a collaborative environment. With its natural focus on service, the style of the servant-leader is one option. A literature critique of servant-leadership, nursing and nursing education revealed a lack of research in this area. The authors wrote this article to elucidate existing literature on the topic and discus why further research into the need to incorporate servant-leadership into nursing education is important to facilitate the advancement of the profession