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Colorado Department of Revenue, Division of Racing Events
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As a licensed trainer in Colorado you are expected to understand the Colorado Racing Commission Rules and Colorado Revised Statute ʹ12-60-201 et seq. with regards to Horse Racing in Colorado. The following information is designed as a study guide to assist trainers in preparation for the written horse trainer's test.
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New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Racism is America's original and most enduring sin, with well-known historic and contemporary markers: slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining, mass incarceration, police brutality. Yet a resurgence of white racism in the twenty-first century, from white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, to the skyrocketing number of hate crimes being reported around the country, has also brought into sharp relief another uniquely American tradition:...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and incendiary campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is not; the plea and demand that "Black Lives Matter" comes...
66) The help
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English
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Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? Racism is the usual answer. Yet Nicholas Guyatt argues in Bind Us Apart that white liberals from the founding to the Civil War were not confident racists, but tortured reformers conscious of the damage that racism would do to the nation. Many tried to build a multiracial America in the early nineteenth century, but ultimately...
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Townsend Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
On a December day in 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. She was arrested, jailed, and tried for the crime of breaking the laws of segregation.
69) Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. --From publisher description.
71) Plática/Conversation to Promote Latino Health, Denver, Colorado, August 19, 2008 resource guide
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Office of Health Disparities of the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In New Right, New Racism, Ansell explores the ways in which the New Right has used panicky rhetoric, slanted to play on race-based anxieties, to make the case for its "traditional" values and policies. Raising specters of immigrants in strange garb diluting our national culture, criminals terrorizing innocent citizens, radical gays flaunting their sexuality and openly seducing our children, and "P.C. Police" monitoring our thoughts and speech, the...
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Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Understanding the complexity of racial categories is essential for achieving equity and reducing inequality in the United States. The authors show how that by disaggregating data on race, researchers and policymakers can more fully understand how race is factored in educational settings"--
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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Office of Health Disparities
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This fact sheet provides information about some of the major health indicators for the population in Colorado. Like other communities of color, African Americans/Blacks in Colorado experience some differences in health, risk factors and behaviors in comparison to other population groups. The data presented show comparisons between the African American/Black population and the States population as a whole and identifies where there are differences....
Publisher
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Office of Health Disparities
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
This fact sheet provides information about some of the major health indicators for the Hispanic/Latino population in Colorado. Like other communities of color, Hispanics/Latinos experience some differences in health, risk factors and behaviors in comparison to other population groups. The data presented show comparisons between the Hispanic/Latino population and the States population as a whole and identifies where there are differences.