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It is a perennial question: how should Americans deal with racial
and ethnic diversity? More than 400 communities across the country
have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse
volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. In" Talking
about Race," Katherine Cramer Walsh takes an eye-opening look at
this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the
effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it.
With extensive observations of community dialogues, interviews with
the discussants, and sophisticated analysis of national data, Walsh
shows that while meeting organizers usually aim to establish common
ground, participants tend to leave their discussions with a
heightened awareness of differences in perspective and experience.
Drawing readers into these intense conversations between ordinary
Americans working to deal with diversity and figure out the meaning
of citizenship in our society, she challenges many preconceptions
about intergroup relations and organized public talk. Finally
disputing the conventional wisdom that unity is the only way
forward, Walsh prescribes a practical politics of difference that
compels us to reassess the place of face-to-face discussion in
civic life and the critical role of conflict in deliberative
democracy.
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Nobody's Dog (Paperback)
Katherine Walsh; Illustrated by Shari J Ryan; Sarah Fader
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R370
Discovery Miles 3 700
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Out of stock
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