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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Prejudice
Date: 1950s-1960sReference: PP/RRW/E/46Part of: West, Robert George Ranyard (1900-1986)- Books
Prejudice and impartiality / by G.C. Field.
Field, G. C. (Guy Cromwell), 1887-1955.Date: 1932- Books
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Prejudice detected: an ethic epistle. By T. Brecknock, Esq;
Brecknock, Timothy, -1786.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
Prejudice: racist-religious-nationalist / [compiled and edited by Helen Kehr].
Wiener Library.Date: 1971
- Pictures
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Prejudice and ignorance about AIDS; advertisement by the New Zealand AIDS Foundation. Lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 669577i