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Making Gumbo in the University (Paperback, New)
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Making Gumbo in the University (Paperback, New)
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A powerful example of a sincere effort to practice what you live
and what you preach. Making Gumbo helps us feel the discomfort that
naturally occurs when an institution pursues diversity. It places
the responsibility for diversity at all levels of the university,
but emphasizes the critical role of leadership in this effort. Such
leadership must at minimum be unwavering in its commitment to
diversity and willing to take risks for change.
Craig C. Brookins, Director, Africana Studies, NC State University
The truths that come out here show what diversity really means.
Particularly interesting were the challenges that Nacoste faced
while trying to change the diversity culture at a major university
in the South from one of entitlement to one of engagement. The
struggles that Nacoste faced leading the diversity effort at North
Carolina State University put him in the middle between a
conservative, old-school black community both on campus and off,
and an administration that was determined to not have race issues
be front page news.
I know about this first hand because I was there and I was part of
this story.
Stuart L. Cooper, former Provost at North Carolina State
University
Dr. Nacoste convincingly establishes an unsettling truth: conflict
is not only a necessary consequence of true diversity, it is the
essence of diversity. . . I am reminded of the countless times I
witnessed him address a rapt audience. He is a force of nature.
With his booming voice, confident stride and dramatic presence, he
demands attention. Often, his message was one of elegant
simplicity: that people have profound effects on one another. Our
attempts to navigate these effects comprise the central narrative
of humanity. In Making Gumbo, Dr. Nacoste lends his distinct and
assured voice to a nation confronted anew with perplexing questions
of diversity.
Brandon Buskey, NCSU Graduate, Staff Attorney, Equal Justice
Initiative
Nacoste chooses the tantalizing metaphor of a gumbo to paint a
picture of the powerful and intellectually stimulating life of a
research university campus alive with diversity. He understands and
communicates the value of a fundamental and clearly understood
mission as the roux on which this delightful dish is built. He
illustrates the essential importance of each ingredient in this
gumbo-human beings with their history, their prejudices, their
desire to learn. He celebrates the intellectual joy that comes with
conflicts of ideas.
Nacoste writes a prescription for taking learning organizations of
all kinds to high levels of true productivity, through the very
practical implementation of ways to capitalize on the conflict of
ideas with which a truly diverse community seethes.
C. Frank Abrams, Professor emeritus, Former Senior Vice Provost
and Chief of Staff, North Carolina State University
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