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UNINA9910699154103321 |
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Mittal Anu K |
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Clean water infrastructure [[electronic resource] ] : design issues and funding options for a clean water trust fund : testimony before the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives / / statement of Anu K. Mittal |
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[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2009] |
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1 online resource (ii, 45 pages) |
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Testimony ; ; GAO-09-893T |
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Federal aid to water resources development - United States |
Water resources development - United States |
Water-supply - United States |
Water reuse - Economic aspects - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed July 27, 2009). |
"For release ... July 15, 2009." |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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UNINA9910813481503321 |
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Autore |
Tator Carol |
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Racial profiling in Canada : challenging the myth of "a few bad apples" / / Carol Tator and Frances Henry ; with Charles Smith and Maureen Brown |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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0-8020-8666-7 |
1-281-99644-0 |
9786611996444 |
1-4426-7897-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (262 p.) |
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Racism - Canada |
Racial profiling in law enforcement - Canada |
Minorities - Civil rights - Canada |
Electronic books. |
Canada |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Theoretical perspectives -- The interlocking web of racism across institutions, systems, and structures -- Racial profiling in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom / Charles C. Smith -- The culture of policing -- The role of narrative inquiry in social science research: understanding dominant and oppositional discourses -- The dominant discourses of white public authorities: narratives of denial, deflection, and oppression -- In their own voices: African Canadians in Toronto share experiences of racial profiling / Maureen Brown -- From narratives to social change: pattern and possiblilites. |
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In October 2002, the Toronto Star ran a series of feature articles on racial profiling in which it was indicated that Toronto police routinely target young Black men when making traffic stops. The articles drew strong reactions from the community, and considerable protest from |
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the media, politicians, law enforcement officials, and other public authorities. Although the articles were supported by substantial documentation and statistical evidence, the Toronto Police Association sued the Star, claiming that no such evidence existed. The lawsuit was ultimately rejected in court. As a result, however, the issue of racial profiling - a practice in which certain criminal activities are attributed to individuals or groups on the basis of race or ethno-racial background - was thrust into the national spotlight. In this comprehensive and thought-provoking work, Carol Tator and Frances Henry explore the meaning of racial profiling in Canada as it is practised not only by the police but also by many other social institutions. The authors provide a theoretical framework within which they examine racial profiling from a number of perspectives and in a variety of situations. They analyse the discourses of the media, policing officials, politicians, civil servants, judges, and other public authorities to demonstrate how those in power communicate and produce existing racialized ideologies and social relations of inequality through their common interactions. Chapter 3, by contributing author Charles Smith, provides a comparison of experiences of racial profiling and policing in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Chapter 7, by Maureen Brown, through a series of interviews, presents stories that demonstrate the realities of racial profiling in the everyday experiences of Afro-Canadians and ethno-racial minorities. Informed by a wealth of research and theoretical approaches from a wide range of disciplines, Racial Profiling in Canada makes a major contribution to the literature and debates on a topic of growing concern. Together the authors present a compelling examination of the pervasiveness of racial profiling in daily life and its impact on our society, while suggesting directions for change. |
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UNINA9910484472303321 |
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Autore |
Tien Adrian |
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An Anatomy of Chinese Offensive Words : A Lexical and Semantic Analysis / / by Adrian Tien, Lorna Carson, Ning Jiang |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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Linguistics |
Sociolinguistics |
Culture |
Oriental languages |
Anthropological linguistics |
Sociology of Culture |
Oriental or Semitic Languages |
Linguistic Anthropology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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1. What Is All the Fuss About? -- 2. An Anatomy of the Chinese Offensive Lexicon -- 3. Collecting and Categorizing Offensive Words in Chinese -- 4. Four Representative Offensive Items from the Chinese Lexicon -- 5. Offensive Words in Chinese Dialects -- 6. Offensive Words in Chinese Cyberspace -- 7. Offensive Language and First Language Acquisition of Chinese -- 8. Offensive Language and Sociocultural Homogeneity in Singapore: An Ethnolinguistic Perspective -- 9. So, What Was All the Fuss About?. |
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This book offers a precise and rigorous analysis of the meanings of offensive words in Chinese. Adopting a semantic and cultural approach, the authors demonstrate how offensive words can and should be systematically researched, documented and accounted for as a valid aspect of any language. The book will be of interest to academics, |
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practitioners and students of sociolinguistics, language and culture, linguistic taboo, Chinese studies and Chinese linguistics. Adrian Tien was Associate Professor in Chinese Studies (Linguistics) at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His co-authors, also at Trinity, are Lorna Carson, Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, and Ning Jiang, Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies. . |
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