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In America today there is a little-known explosion of creative art by women and men from many different ethnic backgrounds. Mixed Blessings is the first book to discuss the crosscultural process taking place in the work of Latino, Native-, African-, and Asian-American artists. Rich with illustrations of artworks in many different mediums, and filled with incisive quotes and unsettling reports, it is more than a book about art, it is a complex meditation...
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Defending the melting-pot theory against the ethnic pluralists who have come forth to debunk it since the early 1960s, Steinberg integrates existing criticism and summarizes the economic forces that shaped the development of America's ethnic groups. He explains the complexities of race, class and ethnicity in America.
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"How do Americans develop business enterprises for community and individual economic stability? This book emphasizes immigrant and "minority" entrepreneurship, providing rich historical research and recent analyses of these issues. The authors show that an analysis of the 1910 data reveals that black Americans were more likely than white Americans to be employers, and almost as likely as whites to be selfemployed. We also learn that the immigrant...
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Graham shows you how to break out of the box that keeps you from growing to your full potential, and reveals that success is truly based on results, performance, and excellence. Diversity is literally changing the face of our nations. Workers of all backgrounds are merging into a global marketplace, while businesses are challenged by a shortage of talent and the need to integrate a wide range of cultures. In this global environment, diversity has...
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"The news and scholarly literature are replete with stories and articles describing the challenges that diverse individuals face in their local communities and workplaces. Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries: A Call to Action and Strategies for Success is arranged in three parts: "Why Diversity and Inclusion Matter," "Equipping the Library Staff," and "Voices from the Field." The book tackles these issues head on. Offering best practices strategies...
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"This updated text, Race, Multiculturalism, and the Media, illustrates how, in the past decade, much has changed, yet much still remains the same. Recent developments in the participation, representation, and activism of Latinos, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans as they have been played out through various media are interwoven throughout the text. The authors thoroughly examine the various forms of the media: film, television,...
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"The first edition of this best-selling book showed that alongside the subtle forms of discrimination typical of the post-Civil Rights era, new powerful ideology of 'color-blind racism' has emerged. Bonilla-Silva documented how beneath the rhetorical maze of contemporary racial discourse lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for and ultimately justify racial inequities"--From Google Books.
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