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Examples Of Hate Crimes In Literature

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A number of qualitative examples of hate crimes are present in literature and resource materials. In Springfield, Missouri, an African American male with a white female was stabbed at a Denny’s restaurant. In Modesto, California, an interracial couple reported a firebomb being thrown through a window in their home. Further examples include an elderly women in Kingsville, Texas being forcibly removed from her public housing dwelling for false statements about her. And in two students were harassed with racial and sexual slurs at Bates College in Lewiston, Minnesota (U.S. Department of Justice, n.d.). Similar types of crimes occur worldwide. This represents a cross-section of these types of hate crimes.
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