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The Convert

By Lerone Bennett Jr.

Aaron Lott is killed by the sherif when he challenges segregation in Mississippi. His friend Booker is called upon to tell the truth in court about what happened while risking to lose much that is dear to him.

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In North America Tags: race and ethnicity, discrimination, race, religion

Préférence Nationale

By Fatou Diome

A Senegalese woman has troubled finding work in France after a divorce from her French husband.

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In Africa Tags: race and ethnicity, discrimination, respect for autonomy

Mauricio (“the Eye”) Silva

By Roberto Bolaño

While reporting on prostitution in India, a journalist saves two children who have fallen prey to a sect in which young boys are subjected to ritual castration.  

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In Latin America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty, culture, exploitation, race and ethnicity, prostitution

Advancing Luna – And Ida B. Wells

By Alice Walker

A black civil rights worker reflects on her white friend’s report that she was raped by a black man in the South.

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In North America Tags: rape, race, race and ethnicity, discrimination, feminism

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

By Tadeusz Borowski

A Polish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp unloads unsuspecting Jews from train cars entering the camp before they are lead to the Gas Chambers.

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In Europe Tags: war, holocaust, cruelty, race and ethnicity

The Fugitive

By T. Coraghessan Boyle

A young man of Mexican descent living north of the border has a recurrence of tuberculosis and resists being monitored by health care workers and law enforcement. 

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In North America Tags: medical ethics, public health, incarceration, respect for autonomy, race and ethnicity

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