The purpose of this code is to minimize and prevent the harassment of students by using hate speech on the basis of race, sex, color, handicap, religion, sexual preference, or ethnic origin. The policies formulated by Stanford University identify harassment as being "intended to insult or stigmatize on the basis of stereotypical group characteristics; it is addressed directly to those it intended to insult or stigmatize- (Goldberg, 333). Discrimination in the form of harassment is recognized as a violation of the Fundamental Standard. By preventing such harassment or insulting of students, we ...

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Benefits of having white skin are economic privileges, and police protection, instead of police harassment also depending on their financial situation they can choose neighborhoods that are safe and have decent schools. ... Whites in the U.S have related to so called nonwhite groups by sexual violence that is committed within the same racial group by heterosexual men who know their victim. If our children and we are beaten up, sexually assaulted or abused it is most likely to be by heterosexual white men, but we continue to believe that we need to protect ourselves from men who are different...

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Jacobs's "knowledge" has to do with "premature knowledge" of sexual harassment because of sexual exploitation of enslaved African-American women, by their white masters. The dilemma of all enslaved women was the conflict between virtuous, womanly ideals and the sexual exploitation mentioned above. ... She describes and stresses the particular ways in which slavery affected women in terms of sexual abuse and constraints on motherhood. ... By demonstrating that it was her master's sexual habits that forced her into "prematurely knowing"(Jacobs 54), Jacobs basically discredits the i...

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During World War II, many groups of Americans, including Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Japanese Americans were mistreated during the war. During the war, in the Zoot Suit Riots, some elements of the California press had been portraying Mexican Americans as unwelcome foreigners. Bands o...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate