I have been very involved in thinking about how the ideas of diversity help us build our shared society. I recently published this piece on CNN.com trying to pull together a way of conceptualizing how in our diversity we are together.
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Thinking Through Diversity
May 28, 2014Tags:black white relations, diversity, diversity culture, human diversity, integrating society, racial togetherness, white diversity
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Thanksgiving=Diversity Squared
November 25, 2013On Thanksgiving do we recognize collaboration between diverse peoples or do we inadvertently celebrate the return of Pilgrims from a successful massacre of over 700 Native Americans? Without a unifying narrative to give shape to our national values, most people will shop instead. Diversity has become an exponential issue generating more anxiety than solutions – all the more reason to participate in and continue this unwieldy conversation.
Tags:bias in America, black white relations, class anxiety, class identity, class in America, cultural identity, discrimination, diversity, gender, race, race relations, racism, social class in white america, Thanksgiving prayer
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