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Many enlightened organizations now see diversity and inclusion programs as more than mere compliance issues - they are ways to increase market share, employee retention, and innovation. Psychologist Peter Quarry provides a number of practical strategies that will help the individual change their negative thinking and reactions to people from different backgrounds. This program is a great discussion starter.

The question of toleration matters more than ever. The politics of the twenty-first century is replete with both the successes and, all too often, the failures of toleration. Yet a growing number of thinkers and practitioners have argued against toleration. Some believe that liberal democracies are better served by different principles, such as respect of, or recognition for, people's ways of life. Others argue that because the liberal state should...

This work explores everyday lived experiences of multiculturalism in the contemporary world. Drawing on place-based case studies, contributions focus on encounters and interactions across cultural difference in super-diverse cities to explore what it means to inhabit multiculturalism in our everyday lives.

Is it the face of twenty-first-century America or merely a passing intellectual fad? The contributors to this volume address the pros and cons of multiculturalism and explore its relationship with liberal democracy. Offering viewpoints on multiculturalism from the perspectives of political theory, history, philosophy, and fiction, they help to explain what the multiculturalism controversy is about and clarify the concerns it should raise for thoughtful...

"Regarding Equality offers an innovative and controversial analysis of the relationship between equality and pluralism. Tackling an issue central to modern political thought, Freeberg highlights the struggle to characterize citizens as equals while respecting their moral, religious, and cultural diversity. The work ably contrasts and critiques the prevailing models for balancing equality with pluralism from thinkers Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, John...

This book introduces multiculturalism while also highlighting current approaches to multicultural education and placing them in a broad comparative and international context. Through a comparative view that is both domestic and international, the book explores ethnicity, race, class, and education (kindergarten through higher education) as they interact to integrate populations, while also serving vested interests and enhancing group identity and...

Originally a term simply used to differentiate people from the Canary Island from Spanish mainlanders, Isleños now refers to a specific cultural identity embraced by their descendants living in Latin America and Louisiana. This community is largely unknown to the general public in the U.S., yet their influence on politics, culture, and American society has been significant.

Stefan cooks his way around war-torn Afghanistan, discovering local dishes and finding out how the country's reconstruction is going. He narrowly avoids being blown up by abandoned Soviet scud missiles, eats fat-tailed sheep with a former Taliban commander and samples US army rations.

A collection representing "the authentic voice of the new Rainbow America," including African American, Native American, Asian American and Euro-ethnic.