Discrimination
Discrimination means being treated unfairly (not on an equal basis) because of who you are or because you possess certain characteristics.
The Equality Act 2010 highlights 9 protected characteristics:
Age
Gender
Race
Disability
Religion
Pregnancy and maternity
Sexual orientation
Gender reassignment
Marriage and civil partnership
You can probably think of many other situations where people experience discrimination and their right are not protected by law.
Have you witnessed discrimination? How did you feel? What did you do?
Have you experienced discrimination? How did you feel? What did you do?
Which groups and individuals in our communities are more likely to experience discrimination?
Here are some arts resources to help you explore this subject.
Race
56 Black Men, I am not my stereotype Cephas Williams (2019)
Cephas Williams produced this picture in response to a local shopping centre banning men wearing hoodies, to combat what they saw as intimidating groups of youths in the centre. Williams says the distrust of black men in hoodies is endemic in the UK. His campaign features a spectrum of black man from trainee surgeons to choreographers and politicians making visible the men underneath the hoodie.
Small Great Things a book by Jodi Picoult
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Gender
Amrita Sher-Gil painted this picture 1935 it can be seen in the National Gallery of Modern Art in Deli.
Amrita said, “I realised my real artistic mission, to interpret the life of Indians and particularly the poor Indians pictorially; to paint those silent images of infinite submission and patience,… to reproduce on canvas the impression those sad eyes created on me.”
This picture portrays three girls contemplating a destiny they are unable to change, representing both inequality and discrimination
Resources under the headings power, disability and abuse may help you explore the subject of discrimination
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