Books: Education and Diversity
The Black Academic's Guide to Winning Tenure—Without Losing Your Soul (2008) by Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Tracey Laszloffy
While the number of PHD degrees awarded to African Americans has increased in recent years, the landscape of departmental politics, racism, identity affirmation, and under-representation continue to be major issues for junior faculty to navigate, especially for those on the tenure track. This book offers practical advice on how to proactively engage with the process to successfully achieve tenure. Areas of focus include establishing networks, balancing teaching and publishing, and negotiating power and racism. (Added September 2008)
Reel Diversity: A Teacher's Sourcebook (2008) by Brian Johnson and Skyra Blanchard
Reel Diversity: A Teacher's Sourcebook is a resource manual for teachers who want to infuse the concepts of diversity and social justice into their secondary and college courses. Lecturers and workshop presenters will also appreciate this text for its practical uses. The authors present proven guidelines for teaching diversity using a framework that deconstructs national opinion and culture from both majority and minority perspectives. Emphasizing the development of a shared language among teachers and learners, the text provides a list of important definitions about difference and power. It discusses the role of the teacher in minimizing cultural dominance, prejudice, and discrimination in society. The text includes an extensive section on designing a diversity education course, and teachers will benefit from the suggested instructional activities, readings, assignments, and advice on creating a classroom atmosphere for these issues.
Engaging the Whole of Service-Learning, Diversity, and Learning Communities (2005) by Joseph Galura, Penny Pasque, David Schoem, & Jeffrey Howard (eds.)
Service-learning, diversity, and learning communities are amongst today's most prominent higher education innovations. Most institutions treat these separately. This book is about the integration of all three at the University of Michigan's exemplary Michigan Community Scholars Program. Voices included are those of national leaders, and faculty, students, staff, and community partners at this living-learning program.
The Latina/o Pathway to the PhD: Abriendo Caminos (2006) by Melba Vasquez, Hector Garza, Jeanett Castellanos, and Alberta M. Gloria
The Latina/o population constitutes the largest racial and ethnic minority group in the U.S. and is disproportionately under-represented in college and in graduate programs. This is the first book specifically to engage with the absence of Latinas/os in doctoral studies. It proposes educational and administrative strategies to open up the pipeline, and institutional practices to ensure access, support, models, and training for Latinas/os aspiring to the Ph.D.
How Black Colleges Empower Black Students: Lessons for Higher Education (2006) Edited by Frank W. Hale Jr.
How is it that historically Black colleges graduate so many low-income and academically poorly prepared students? How do they manage to do so well with students "as they are," even when adopting open admissions policies? In this volume, contributors from a wide spectrum of Black colleges offer insights and examples of the policies and practice--such as retention strategies, co-curricular activities and approaches to mentoring, which underpin their disproportionate success with populations that too often fail in other institutions.
Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness (2004) Melanie E.L. Bush
Examining the contemporary white experience, BREAKING THE CODE OF GOOD INTENTIONS examines why most white people in the United States believe we have achieved racial equality,even though social and economic indicators suggest otherwise. Drawing on systematic research conducted at the largest urban public university in the country, Melanie Bush explores white students' perceptions about identity, privilege, democracy, and inter-group relations. Concluding with recommendations for academia and society at large, the author contends that the time is overdue for the dismantling of narratives that align ordinary whites with global elites. Indeed, she argues, the very future of humanity depends on challenging this persistent pattern.
Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color (2004) Laura I. Rendón, Mildred García, and Dawn Person, Editors
Multicultural centers, ethnic student organizations, and diversity awareness programs are common on America's college campuses. Yet students of color still experience difficulty accessing and succeeding in American higher education. In a new monograph, Laura I. Rendón, Mildred García, and Dawn Person argue that specialized programs are necessary but not sufficient to ensure the success of first-year students of color. Rather, institutions must transform their approach to the first college year for these students.
Faculty Diversity: Problems and Solutions (2004) by JoAnn Moody
Colleges and universities have made strides in diverisfying their student bodies, however, they have not achieved similiar success with efforts to diversity their staffs. In this book, JoAnn Moody illustrates the the barriers that minorities and women encounter as they enter the professoriate. The author offers several practical solutions for campuses, departments, and individual faculty to follow, which may improve their evaluation, recruitment, retention, and mentorship of women and minorities.
Building Bridges for Women of Color in Higher Education A Practical Guide to Success (2006) Edited by Conchita Y. Battle and Chontrese M. Doswell
Building Bridges for Women of Color in Higher Education is designed to create a forum for synthesizing collective voices from women of color in academia. This book will serve as a professional development tool for academicians, both embarking upon and maintaining careers in higher education. Filled with dynamic women of color sharing one of their most valuable resources, their experience, the authors will mentor the reader by discussing practical lessons and mapping career path strategies. Building Bridges for Women of Color in Higher Education will serve as a place for women, in any phase of their academic careers, to turn for inspiration and guidance.
The Intercultural Campus: Transcending Culture and Power in American Higher Education (2003) Greg Tanka
Discussing studies conducted over an eight-year period, this book reveals the underlying sources of racial fragmentation on university campuses and outlines a new framework for diversity. Tanaka describes specific programs that all campuses should implement when admitting diverse classes. Signaling a larger shift for progressives away from binary, essentialized notions of identity to individual agency, or "subjectivity," this book advances a social change philosophy based in interdependence and highlights the skills that future U.S. leaders will need to interact successfully with others in our diverse global society. ISBN: 08204-4150-3/$29.95/232 pages/pb/October 2003 Peter Lang Publishing USA 1-800-770-LANG/fax:212-647-7707 customerservice@plang.com/www.peterlangusa.com Contact: Heather Boyle, heatherb@plang.com, 275 7th Avenue, 28th Floor, NY, NY 10001, 212-647-7700, www.peterlangusa.com
Books: Society and Diversity
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (2007) by Kenji Yoshino
To cover is to downplay a disfavored trait so as to blend into the mainstream. Kenji Yoshino argues that the demand to cover can pose a hidden threat to our civil rights. Though we have come to some consensus against penalizing people for differences based on race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, and disability, we still routinely deny equal treatment to people who refuse to downplay differences along these lines. In a wide-ranging analysis, Yoshino demonstrates that American civil rights law has generally ignored the threat posed by these covering demands. With passion and rigor, he shows that the work of civil rights will not be complete until it attends to the harms of coerced conformity.
Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, Wendy Brown traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization.
Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspective (2003) by Ramón Grosfoguel
Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramón Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's history, political economy, and urbanization processes. He offers a comprehensive and well-reasoned framework for understanding the position of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, the position of Puerto Ricans in the United States, and the position of colonial migrants compared to noncolonial migrants in the world system.
Right Before Our Eyes: Latinos Past, Present and Future (2004) by Robert Montemayor
Right Before Our Eyes helps us to understand why Latinos are a growing and significant economic engine. Latinos and non-Latinos alike will have a vivid picture of the contributions, the changes, the near-and long-term impact that Latinos have had and will have on America at every level: history, business, arts and culture, politics and government, the judiciary, the military, and every other major element that contributes to society.
Creating Diversity Capital: Transnational Migrants in Montreal, Washing and Kiev (2005) by Blair A. Ruble
How do urban communities accommodate this century's massive transnational migrations? This volume seeks clues about how a city's capacity for urban social sustainability, termed "diversity capital," may expand under such conditions.
Building on the Promise of Diversity: How We Can Move to the Next Level in Our Workplaces, Our Communities and Our Society (2005) by R. Roosevelet Thomas Jr.
Building on the Promise of Diversity gives insights and skills needed to navigate through simmering tensions—and find creative solutions for achieving cohesiveness, connectedness, and common goals.
How Race is Made: Slavery, Segregation and the Sense (2006) by Mark M. Smith
For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the artificial binary of "black" and "white" to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social structure of segregation.
Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos (2005)
In Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos, the 15 contributing authors explore relationships between Blacks, Latinos and Afro-Latinos, and point out both the striking similarities and differences in the racial politics of the Americas — North, Central and South — and the Caribbean.
East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (2005) Edited by Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha G. Oren
By tracing cross-culutral influences and global cultural trends, the essays in East Main Street bring Asian American Studies, in all its interdisciplinary richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. Contributors consider topics ranging from early Asian American movie starts to the influences of South Asian iconography on rave culture, and from the marketing of Asian culture though foods and the contemporary clamor for transnational Chinese women's historical fiction. NYU Press.
Scholarly Journals
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education The American Psychological Association launched this new journal in the spring of 2008 to share “research findings, theory, and promising practices to help guide the efforts of institutions of higher education in the pursuit of inclusive excellence” (from the Web site). Articles discuss diversity as both an institutional commitment and a developmental outcome. Doing so acknowledges the complexity of diversity and its applicability as a tool for both holistic education of students and a lens to produce equitable programs, services, and policies for institutions of higher education. (Added August 2008)
Opportunity Matters: A Journal of Research Informing Educational Opportunity Practice and Programs Opportunity Matters is a new annual research journal that specializes in presenting empirical research focused on educational opportunity programs and the student populations these programs serve. The journal also features research on related areas such as; demographic characteristics, education policy, methodology, and critiques of social factors affecting populations and programs. The Web site includes call for papers, order forms, and additional subscription information. (Added August 2008)
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Journal of Blacks in Higher Education showcases institutions of higher education that provide exemplary innovations in advancing policies, practices, and scholarship. The journal identifies access, representation in the faculty, research, graduation rates, postgraduate degree recipients, administrative appointments, and tenure appointments as measures of success. Additionally, the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education provides email alerts, daily news, job postings, and offers sample articles. (Added August 2008)
Journal of Hispanic Higher Education The Journal of Hispanic Higher Education (JHHE) presents qualitative and quantitative research for the development of Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). According to its Web site, the journal covers topics such as; administration, curriculum, service learning, science, and so forth. Focusing on a particular identity and college type encourages readers to use a holistic lens in order to draw connections across functional areas in order to map the experiences of students. This focus also provides a deeper exploration of the many identities, intersections, and overlapping constructs within the Latino and Latina context. (Added August 2008)
Gender and Society Gender & Society focuses on the social and structural study of gender as a basic principle of the social order and as a primary social category (taken from the Web site). The journal uses an interdisciplinary approach, drawing research and reviews from a variety of disciplines and sources. Topics featured in Gender and Society have included; sexuality, queer parenting, media representation, activism, etc. The incorporation of various disciplines and topics challenges readers to explore issues surrounding gender in complex ways that dispute traditional gender roles and dichotomous views of individuals. (Added August 2008)
Journal of Latinos and Education The Journal of Latinos and Education (JLE) utilizes theoretical, conceptual, empirical, clinical, historical, and methodological frameworks to explore the complexities involved with Latinos and education. As a result, a wide range of issues are brought to light and connected to provide a well grounded presentation of Latinos and Latinas that benefits stakeholders across all functions of education. This scope is categorized into four categories; (1) Policy, (2) Research, (3) Practice, and (4) Creative & Literary works. (Added August 2008)
Journal of College Student Development This research journal from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) focuses on the student context, “…emphasizing college students, student development, and postsecondary student experiences” (taken from the Web site). The journal is vital for student affairs practitioners and administration as it provides strong insight on leadership development, experiences of underrepresented populations, effectiveness of programs, and other student-centered contexts. (Added August 2008)
FemTAP (2006) FemTAP: A Journal of Feminist Theory and Practice, a new e-journal launched by University of New Mexico as part of the first ever graduate feminist theory courses offered by the Women’s Studies Program at University of New Mexico.
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP) An electronic journal sponsored by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). The journal is an outlet for timely and innovative psychological and related social science scholarship with implications for social action and policy. We seek to be a forum for publishing new work as well as discussion on alternative approaches to a variety of important and current social problems. By encouraging timely publication of well-written peer-reviewed work, we aim to facilitate communication between social science researchers and policy makers as well as with the public as a whole.
Al-Raida Al-Raida is a quarterly journal in English, which hopes to spread knowledge about social, economic, and legal conditions of women in the Arab world. It assists in establishing links and networks between Arab women and women all over the world and foster communication among individuals, groups, and institutions concerned with Arab women.
Magazines
Diverse Issues in Higher Education Diverse Issues in Higher Education is considered to be one of the premier higher education news sources that focus on people of color and other underrepresented populations. From social trends to policies and practices, Diverse provides a wide coverage for a national audience. Information on workshops, conferences, and job postings from across the country are also available in online and print formats. (Added August 2008)
The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine HO is an online and print news magazine that covers cultural, educational, and social news from across the nation. The magazine focuses primarily on showcasing artists, art, program best practices, profiles on Latinos/Latinas, and bulletins on upcoming meetings. “Each issue brings forth the significance of communication in academic circles, the importance of the positive learning experience, role models, and the contribution of both Hispanic and non-Hispanic writers with constructive observations on policies and procedures in academia“ (taken from the Web site). (Added August 2008)
Colorlines Magazine is the first national, multi-racial magazine devoted to covering the politics and creations of communities of color. Its mission is to be a platform for challenging points-of-view. The magazine intends to read in between the lines, question the lines, and cross the lines. ColorLines Magazine is published quarterly by the Applied Research Center |
