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Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Today, diversity is the default, not the exception. "Minorities" are already the majority in some of the biggest cities in the United States, and demographers predict that the same will be true of the country as a whole before 2050. Yet companies continue to address the "general market" as a separate audience from ethnic consumers, rather than acknowledging that the new mainstream is itself multicultural. In addition, many who do target multicultural...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"American Workplaces have put major resources into increasing diversity and inclusion, yet the outcome has been minimal. Based on her Google experience, Dannie Lynn Fountain shows how companies can move beyond performing to authentically enacting true DEI"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"America's founding genius is diversity of thought. Which is why social justice activists won't win by labeling those who disagree with them. At a time when minorities are fast becoming the majority, a truly new America requires a new way to tribe out. Enter Irshad Manji and her dog, Lily. Raised to believe that dogs are evil, Manji overcame her fear of the "other" to adopt Lily. She got more than she bargained for. Defying her labels as an old, blind...
Author
Publisher
Be the People Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When the US Supreme Court announced its landmark 6-3 decision to take race out of the equation for college and university admissions, it did more than just bring Affirmative Action in higher education to a screeching halt. It also fired a warning shot across the bow of businesses and governmental agencies across America: the days for workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEl) programs that violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment...
Author
Publisher
Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A timely self-examination of the "mixed" American experience featuring exclusive recipes and photographs from the author's multicultural family As citizens continue to evolve and diversify within the United States, the ingredients that comprise each flavorful household are waiting to be discovered and devoured. In Colorful Palate, author Raj Tawney shares his coming-of-age memoir as a young man born into an Indian, Puerto Rican, and Italian-American...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A timely, provocative, necessary look at how identity politics has come to dominate college campuses and higher education in America at the expense of a more essential commitment to equality. Thirty years after the culture wars, identity politics is now the norm on college campuses--and it hasn't been an unalloyed good for our education system or the country. Though the civil rights movement, feminism, and gay pride led to profoundly positive social...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In his most recent book, Who We Be, Jeff Chang looked at how art and culture effected massive social changes in American society. Since the book was published, the country has been gripped by waves of racial discord, most notably the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. In these highly relevant, powerful essays, Chang examines some of the most contentious issues in the current discussion of race and inequality. Built around a central essay looking at...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The never-before-told story of the barrier-breaking NASA class of 1978, which for the first time consisted of a diverse crew of women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and more, and their triumphs and tragedies working on the newly launched space shuttle program, with the exclusive cooperation of five astronauts"--
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An eye-opening, revelatory account of the future of the Republican party as they unite working-class voters in a multi-racial, cross-generational populist coalition. Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election shocked the world. Yet his defeat in 2020 may have been even more surprising: he received 12 million more votes in 2020 than 2016 and his unexpectedly diverse coalition included millions of nonwhite voters, a rarity for the modern...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Keith Ellison is the first Muslim elected to Congress. In fact, the first nonwhite that Minnesota has ever elected to Congress. This memoir, while filled with delightful family ancecdotes and personal recollections, he ran for office in hopes of making a difference in the ever-changing face of America: his "sweet land of libery."
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