Diversity, Beyond the Culture War
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2012-03-05/diversity-beyond-culture-war
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would return to the contentious issue of race and college admissions. Three decades after the court first approved race-based affirmative action, many universities and businesses today view diversity as a competitive asset in a global marketplace. But they're finding it takes more than admissions and hiring preferences to develop that asset. We explore evolving approaches to increasing diversity that go beyond old debates about "racial preferences."
Guests
Howard Ross
author, "Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance" (Rowman & Littlefield); also Principal, Cook Ross
David Thomas
Dean and William R. Berkley Chair, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; author "Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America" (Harvard Business Press) and "Leading for Equity: The Pursuit of Excellence in Montgomery County" (Harvard Education Press)
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Today, the old Black v. White axis within diversity is inadequate as descriptors. Now, when we say “Black”, we have to say which ones? Afro-Hispanic, Continental Africans (West, East or South), Caribbean, or Blacks from the EU. Yet, it has been a growing practice for many universities like Stanford, Harvard and the Ivys to use Blacks other than “African Americans,” (born in the US as descendants to enslaved Africans) as their diversity quotas. The idea is their “not as much trouble,” as the “regular” African Americans with their demands or their identities as slave descendants.
Harvard Has More Black Students Than Ever But Are They African American?
http://www.thegrio.com/specials/the-ygb/harvard-has-more-black-students-...
Ivy League Fooled: How America's Top Colleges Avoid Real Diversity
http://www.good.is/post/ivy-league-fooled-how-america-s-top-colleges-avo...
In Diversity Push, Top Universities Enrolling More Black Immigrants
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR200703...
Please discuss this phenomena.
Kathleen Rand Reed
Biocultural Anthropologist
therandreedgroup@verizon.net