For Multicultural Education/Diversity as well as General Education courses. Students develop conceptual understanding about complex and emotionally-charged issues of diversity in today's world. The author uses clear examples, lucid language, and engaging activities to involve students in thinking through fundamental ideas that ground their understanding of diversity.
The author investigates three converging elements in his examination of human differences: individual attitudes and behaviors, cultural expectations, and institutional policies and practices. This examination provides the basis for the conceptual organization of the text.
Table of Contents:
Section 1: Individual Attitudes and Interpersonal Relations
1. Understanding Ourselves and Others:
Clarifying Values and Language
2. Understanding Prejudice and its Causes
3. Communication, Conflict and Conflict
Resolution
Section 2: Cultural Foundations of Oppression in the United States
4. Immigrants and Oppression: The Paradox of
Nativism in a Nation of Immigrants
5. Race and Oppression: The Experiences of People of Color in America
6. Religion and Oppression: The Struggle for Religious Freedom
7. Rejecting Oppressive Relationships: The Logic
of Cultural Pluralism for a Diverse Society
Section 3: Contemporary Dilemmas for Intergroup Relations
8. Racism: Confronting a Legacy of White
Domination of America
9. Sexism: Where the Personal Becomes Political
10. Heterosexism: Transforming Homosexuality
from Deviant to Different
11. Classism: Myths and Misperceptions about
Poverty
12. Ableism: Disability Does Not Mean Inability
Section 4: The Challenge of Diversity to American Institutions
13. Pluralism in Schools: The Promise of
Multicultural Education
14. Pluralism in Society: Creating Unity in a
Diverse America
Afterword: How can Understanding Human Differences Resolve Dilemmas in a Multicultural Society?
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