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Intergroup Dialogue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Intergroup Dialogue

A study of the role of communication in the creation of a more just society

Diversity Now
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Diversity Now

Looking at diversity issues for librarians, contributors in library science examine partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies, suggest retention strategies, show how librarians can lobby for domestic partner benefits at university libraries, and discuss challenges of working in a multicultural environment. Neely is head of reference at Kuhn Library, University of Maryland-Baltimore. This work has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Library Administration, vol. 33, nos. 1/2 and 3/4 2001. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Dialogue Across Difference
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 498

Dialogue Across Difference

Due to continuing immigration and increasing racial and ethnic inclusiveness, higher education institutions in the United States are likely to grow ever more diverse in the 21st century. This shift holds both promise and peril: Increased inter-ethnic contact could lead to a more fruitful learning environment that encourages collaboration. On the other hand, social identity and on-campus diversity remain hotly contested issues that often raise intergroup tensions and inhibit discussion. How can we help diverse students learn from each other and gain the competencies they will need in an increasingly multicultural America? Dialogue Across Difference synthesizes three years’ worth of research...

Diversity Now
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Diversity Now

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-04-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

A comprehensive perspective on multiculturalism in libraries! Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries delivers a comprehensive look at diversity issues for librarians. It examines partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies and provides effective retention strategies for diverse employees. It also shows how librarians can lobby for domestic partner benefits for university employees who are unmarried same- and opposite-sex couples. Diversity Now: People, Collections, and Services in Academic Libraries provides a unique research perspective on assessment and diversity integration in the academic libraries and highlights effective working strategies for a multicultural library environment, examining: partnerships between academic research libraries and campus agencies which work directly with students assessment and diversity integration in the academic library workplace and six critical challenges for working well in a multicultural environment communication and teaching incorporating service learning experiences in the library and information science curriculum model retention programs for junior faculty of color

Managing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Public Service Organizations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Managing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Public Service Organizations

Managing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Public Service Organizations: A Liberatory Justice Approach is a textbook designed to facilitate critical and courageous conversations that recognize our differences, including our privileged and marginalized social identities, and engage readers in the principles and practice of solidarity to transform systems of oppression. Examining dimensions of race, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, and their intersectionality in the context of diverse, multigenerational organizations, this leading-edge new textbook redefines and reimagines the role of public service in fostering meaningful, authentic, sustainable, and transformative change. While di...

Garbage Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 149

Garbage Crisis

This book will focus on "Waste Management," a serious global issue and engineers' responsibility towards finding better solutions for its sustainable management. Solid waste management is one of the major environmental burdens in both developed and developing countries alike. An alarming rate of solid waste generation trends can be seen as a result of globalization, industrialization, and rapid economic development. However, low-income and marginalized sectors in society suffer most from the unfavorable conditions deriving from poor waste management. Solid waste management is not a mere technical challenge. The environmental impact, socio-economic, cultural, institutional, legal, and politic...

The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-15
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  • Publisher: OUP USA

In this book, Stevenson explores the long-simmering resentment within LA's black community that ultimately erupted in April 1992 by focusing on an preceding event that encapsulated the growing racial and social polarization in the city over the course of the 1980s and early 1990s: the 1991 shooting of a fifteen-year old African American girl, Latasha Harlins, by a Korean grocer who suspected Harlins of shoplifting.

Critical Rhetorics of Race
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Critical Rhetorics of Race

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

In this collection scholars seek to examine the complicated and contradictory terrain of the rhetorics of race while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction.

Understanding White Privilege
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Understanding White Privilege

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Understanding White Privilege delves into the complex interplay between race, power, and privilege in both organizations and private life.

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 13, Issue 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 13, Issue 2

Contents Introduction: Complex Situations M. Therese Lysaught INVITED COMMENTARY Dignitas Infinita: A Syllabus of Errors for the 21st Century? Bernard V. Brady ORIGINAL ARTICLES Moral Impossibility and Communion to the Divorced and Remarried Anthony Hollowell Catholic Anthropology beyond Compulsory Sexuality Jessica Coblentz Inculturation of Catholic Virtue Ethics through Vietnamese Women’s Reclaimed Confucian Virtues Ngoc Nguyen Cultivating a Lifelong Commitment to Social Justice: A Quantitative Analysis Sean T. Lansing Analyzing the Anthropological Implications of Artificial Intelligence through the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger/ Benedict XVI Octavian M. Machidon REVIEW ESSAY Distortions ...