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Redressing Everyday Discrimination: The Weakness and Potential of Anti-Discrimination Law book cover

1st Edition

Redressing Everyday Discrimination The Weakness and Potential of Anti-Discrimination Law

By Karla Portilla Copyright 2016
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines the harm that everyday discrimination can cause and proposes ways in which it can be redressed. Extreme forms of harmful expression, such as incitement to hatred, have been significantly addressed in law. Everyday generalised prejudice, negative stereotypes and gross under-representation of disadvantaged groups in mainstream media are, however, widely perceived as ‘normal’, and... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Locating Everyday Discrimination in a Theory of Justice  3. Cultural Aspects of Discrimination  4. Demeaning Stereotypical Representation in the Media. A Pervasive Case of Everyday Discrimination  5. International and Regional Underpinnings for the Redress of Everyday Discrimination  6. Everyday Discrimination and Hate Speech  7. The Regulation of Everyday Discrimination in the Media  8. Everyday Discrimination as a Legal Wrong  9. Weaknesses and Potential of Anti-discrimination Law in Redressing Everyday Discrimination  10. Conclusions

Biography

Karla Pérez Portilla has researched, taught and published in comparative and constitutional law, human rights and equality and discrimination themes in Mexico, England and Scotland.

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