New Jersey employers can violate the state’s civil rights law if a workerfaces discrimination or harassment tied to their language or accent, the attorney general’s office said in a new guidance memo.

Recently, the 6th Circuit ruled that an employer's negative statements about an employee's accent may be deemed to be direct evidence of discrimination, requiring the employer to demonstrate that it ...

Given the recent protests and riots stemming from the killing of George Floyd, many have been left wondering how racism might be infused into less obvious facets of our lives. While his death ...

Mary Grantham O'Brien received research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Cesar Teló received funding from Global Affairs Canada. Pavel Trofimovich received ...

University of Essex provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. From the moment we are born (and even before that, in utero), we tune into the languages around us. This includes the accents ...