On 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.
Posts Tagged ‘social class in white america’
Thanksgiving=Diversity Squared
November 25, 2013Tags: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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Social class in white America
February 5, 2012A post on class in white America from InAmerica/CNN.com and a creative response to Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State Of White America 1960-2010
Tags:class in America, identity and class in America, social class in white america, white working class, working class
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