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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The California Newsreel Collection features the best fims from their library. Included in the collection are impactul films such as Race - The Power of an Illusion, Black Gold, Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, and others. California Newsreel produces cutting edge, social justice films that inspire, educate and engage audiences.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
One way to think about the creative process is as a two-stage operation, involving an idea generator and a discriminator. Study two approaches to image generation using machine learning. In the first, a target image of a pig serves as the discriminator. In the second, the discriminator is programmed to recognize the general characteristics of a pig, which is more how people recognize objects.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Despite our best endeavors, dogs don't understand our words - they guess. Learn how to overcome your dog's attempt to guess what you want in order to get treats by recognizing and leveraging aggregate or cumulative reinforcement, recency, the order of events, or his own preferred behaviors.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
One of the most important decisions anyone in marketing will make is how to price your product and service. Here, Professor Hamilton reveals the information marketers use to settle on prices; how customers evaluate prices; and how price discrimination, price skimming, and price wars work..
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cultural historian Dave Zirin, whose influential blog and bestselling books have offered searing insights into the politics of American sports, examines the myriad ways sports culture has worked both to reproduce and challenge the wider culture's dominant ideas about race and racial difference. Interviewed by Communication scholar Sut Jhally, whose own work has sought to clarify the relationship between popular culture and racial attitudes, Zirin's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Speak Up! challenges the discrimination, harassment, and violence that result from homophobia - breaking the silence surrounding issues of sexual identity, and inspiring students to speak up against injustice and change the climate of their schools.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a culture obsessed with fat, there are groups of "fat activists" who attempt to change what they see as a fat-phobic world into a size-accepting world. These fat activists span the political and religious spectrum, yet come together around their commitment to ending "size discrimination."
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Race was a fault line in many aspects of the war, especially in the United States as our nation fought for democratic ideals abroad while discriminating at home. Examine the segregated military before the war and review how World War II began to crack the military's wall of discrimination. Learn about the Tuskegee Airmen.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Playing Unfair provides an in-depth critique of the sexism and homophobia that pervade media representations of female athletes. Sports media scholars Mary Jo Kane, Pat Griffin, and Michael Messner examine the disparity between the success of female athletes and sports journalism's often trivialized and (hetero)sexualized coverage of them.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The deep division in Andean society between rural and townspeople begins at birth, is perpetuated by the schools and continues throughout life. The film evidences the discrimination faced by the children of the rural and extremely poor campesinos.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dreamworlds 3, the highly anticipated update of Dreamworlds 2 (1995), examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and by extension boys and men, providing a meticulous analysis of how these narratives reflect and shape individual and cultural attitudes toward femininity, masculinity, sexuality, and race. Systematically dismantling music video's most persistent and disturbing stock representations, and setting them against...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Young children ages 5 to 12 describe how they feel when they hear put-downs of themselves or their families in this video for kids, their educators and parents. Children learn from subtle clues what society thinks about gender roles, same-sex parents and family differences. The children in Sticks & Stones vividly describe how it feels to be teased when their families don't follow traditional gender roles. They talk about why bullies indulge in name-calling,...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A new approach to image generation and discrimination pits both processes against each other in a "generative adversarial network," or GAN. The technique can produce a new image based on a reference class, for example making a person look older or younger, or automatically filling in a landscape after a building has been removed. GANs have great potential for creativity and, unfortunately, fraud.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The feminist utopian movement began in the 1970s and, despite the name, doesn't feature very many traditional "utopias." There is a guarded optimism represented in these novels that dealt with real-world issues of discrimination by creating societies portrayed as classless, crimeless, government-free, but laden with satire.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What's Race Got to Do with It? Social Disparities and Student Success: Ten years after Skin Deep, campuses still struggle to attain diversity, create equity, close achievement gaps, and enhance student success for everyone. California Newsreel has produced this new tool to support your diversity goals. Despite 15 years of diversity programs and initiatives, many of our discussions about race remain mired in confusion. Even a casual observer can't...
18) Equality U
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Examining the complicated relationships between schools, religion, and human rights, Equality U is a feature-length documentary following a group of 33 young activists on the Soulforce Equality Ride, a first of its kind, two-month, cross-country tour to confront anti-gay discrimination policies at 19 conservative religious and military colleges. Against the backdrop of the Equality Ride, the film focuses on seven of the 'Equality Riders' and two courageous...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Rene Portland had three training rules during her 26 years coaching basketball at Pennsylvania State University - no drinking, no drugs and no lesbians. Training Rules, examines how a wealthy athletic department, enabled by the silence of a complacent university, allowed talented athletes, thought to be gay, to be dismissed from their college team. In 2006, student athlete Jennifer Harris, in conjunction with the National Center for Lesbian Rights,...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated...
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