@article{Lynch_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Hate Crime in Our Communities}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/hate-crime-in-our-communities}, abstractNote={Objectives This course seeks to increase our understanding of bias-based violence. We should be able to envision the issues surrounding intergroup violence as interrelated. Through this timely topic we will explore the ways that social construction may lead to hate crime (be it the construction of the perpetrator or the target). Though the syllabus resembles this design, the study of intergroup violence in our communities should not be segmented into separate weeks on different target groups, but should be seen as interwoven throughout the course. When you see the week’s topics of "Race", for instance, it does not mean race in a singular manner; a race that is ungendered or unclassed. It means that while race is the variable of focus we never forget the totality of one’s life and identity. Our goal is to inject the necessity of historical and social perspective into the current climate in our communities. We will understand hate crime as a process events, intertwined with race, class, gender and additional oppressions throughout the world. }, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Lynch, Ami}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }