On the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, a third-grade teacher in Riceville, Iowa felt impelled to give her students a visceral experience of discrimination that they would never forget. She divided them into two groups and told them one was genetically inferior to the othe...   MORE>>

Most of us are probably familiar with the child’s lament made during dinner: “I hate vegetables.” If you are a teacher, you may have heard students announce with conviction, “I hate homework.” It seems that everyone hates someone, something, or some action; so what value is there in a fiel...   MORE>>

INTRODUCTION

In 1968, Congress enacted Title 18 U.S.C. § 245, the first piece of federal hate crime legislation. This bill granted federal officers the authority to investigate and prosecute crimes motivated by race, color, religion, or national origin if the victims were engaging in certain fed...   MORE>>

“I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.” This quotation from Charles Schultz’s Linus is brought to mind by the current volume of the Journal of Hate Studies. This year’s theme, “The Science of Hate,” has brought forth notions about how, under the auspices of some ideal that is su...   MORE>>

It is disappointing when a film described as “a study of the physiognomy of evil” fails to deliver much that is new or compelling. There is such a need for films that help us understand the causes and power of evil in our culture.

The Face of Evil by David Tosco has a promising beginning, tal...   MORE>>

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) civil rights have become a major focus of the legislative agenda of a variety of organizations in support of and in opposition to those rights. This growing interest in LGB civil rights can be seen through the increasing news reports and political discussions concern...   MORE>>

ABSTRACT

Reflecting on the 140th anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment (ratified July, 1868), this qualitative case study described a response by educator-activist Tony Stewart to the Aryan Nations, a neo-Nazi hate group that attempted to intimidate Stewart’s community, Coeur d’ Alene, Idah...   MORE>>

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits Congress from interfering with an individual’s right to free speech and free exercise of religion.

While acknowledging that freedom of speech occupies a “preferred position” in constitutional jurisprudence, the United States Su...   MORE>>

This essay will deal with the issues unresolved by the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT), reservations and declarations to human rights treaties. In fact, declarations to treaties were left out entirely from the scope of the VCLT. This article will also analyse in depth the genera...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

An employer faces a dilemma after an employee makes a discrimination complaint: Does the employer walk on eggshells, avoiding any business action that might affect the complaining employee, or does the employer proceed with business as usual and run the risk of a retaliation compl...   MORE>>