Stories
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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Fleeing fear, defying prejudice
As teenage refugee Sedra Al-Yousef grappled with rebuilding her life and education in another country, at the same time she used compassion and humanity to demolish populist anti-refugee myths.
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
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A reply to the authors of The advantages of Scotland by an incorporate union; And of The Fifth essay, At Removing National Prejudices. Or, a vindication of The Author of the Advantages of the Act of Security, in Opposition to the Incorporating Union.
Black, William, -1745.Date: M.DCC.VII. [1707]- Books
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The messiah revealed to a Jewess; or, the merciful dealings of God with Hannah Nonmus, Born at Frankfort, in Germany, of Jewish Parents, and Brought up in Jewish Prejudices; but Divine Providence Brought her to England, and Divine Grace Drew her to Christ. Revised by William Cooper.
Nonmus, Hannah.Date: [1798]- Books
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Primitive Christianity revived, in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers. Written In Testimony to the present Dispensation of God, through them, to the World; that Prejudices may be removed, the Simple informed, the Well-Inclined encouraged, and the Truth, and its innocent Friends, rightly represented. By William Penn.
Penn, William, 1644-1718.Date: M.DCC.LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Primitive Christianity revived, in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers. Written In Testimony to the present Dispensation of God, through them, to the World; that Prejudices may be removed, the Simple informed, the Well-Inclined encouraged, and the Truth, and its innocent Friends, rightly represented. By William Penn.
Penn, William, 1644-1718.Date: 1796- Books
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Primitive Christianity revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers. Written, in Testimony to the present Dispensation of God, through Them, to the World. That Prejudices may be removed, the Simple informed, the Well-Enclined Encouraged, and the Truth and its Innocent Friends, Rightly Represented: By William Penn.
Penn, William, 1644-1718.Date: Printed in the Year, 1702