DIVERSITY RESOURCES AT IU

Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
Asian Culture Center
Commission on Multicultural Understanding
CommUNITY Education Program
FASE Mentoring (Faculty and Staff for Student Excellence)
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Student Support Services
Incident Teams
LaCasa /Latino Cultural Center
Office of Affirmative Action
Office of Academic Support and Diversity
Office of Women's Affairs
ONE IU
Disability Services
Student Ethics and Anti-Harassment Programs

Leo R. Dowling International Center

First Nations

EDUCATION RESOURCES

Videos | Books | Diversity for Trainers | Web sites

Videos:

“The Essential Blue-Eyed” Bertram Verhaag, director, 1996, revised 1999.
Jane Elliot believes unless people have experienced discrimination for themselves they will never have the motivation to fight it. In “Blue-Eyed” she divides a multiracial group of Midwestern adults on the basis of eye color and subjects the blue-eyed members to a withering regime of humiliation. In just a few hours, grown professionals become distracted and despondent stumbling over simple tasks. African Americans in the group testify they endure similar insults every day and live in a different world from whites. Elliott’s method effectively challenges viewers to confront racism at work, in our community and in ourselves every day.

“Frontline: A Class Divided” PBS Video, 1999. In 1970, a public school teacher in Riceville, Iowa, divided her all-white, all-Christian third-graders into blue and brown-eyed groups for a lesson in discrimination. On successive days, each group was treated as inferior and subjected to discriminatory treatment. This FRONTLINE reunites the teacher and class after 15 years to relate the enduring effects of their lesson.

“What Difference Does Difference Make?” From a Symposium at Duke University The “What Difference Does Difference Make?” conference, held in 1997, examined ways in which the University can move beyond a superficial recognition of diversity to a deeper examination of how difference can enrich our research, teaching, and campus life. This video provides an overview of that conference.

Books:

America in Black and White by Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom, published by Simon & Schuster, 1997. Presents a history of race relations in America over the last fifty years and provides important new information about the positive changes that have been achieved and the measurable improvement in the lives of the majority of African Americans.

Deep Change Discovering the Leader Within by Robert E. Quinn, published by Jossey-Bass Inc., 1996. Written by a well-respected expert on organizations and management, DEEP CHANGE examines the possibility of taking risks to create change for ourselves and our organizations despite the pressures of the fast, furious and ever-changing work place.

The Economics and Politics of Race by Thomas Sowell, published by William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1983. Economist Thomas Sowell examines discrimination, politics, cultural values, imperialism, and other factors to assess their role in economic differences between peoples and nations. Emotional controversies concerning the Third World, racism, and population growth are examined in factual terms, with many myths being discounted along the way.

Gender & Discourse by Deborah Tannen, published by Oxford University Press, 1996. A collection of essays written by Deborah Tannen, GENDER & DISCOURSE looks at language and gender issues such as discussion of gender-related patterns of language use and their cause, conversational strategies and the balance of power, cultural variations and ethnic style in male-female conversation.

An Introduction to Cultural Theory & Popular Culture, 2nd Ed. By John Storey, published by Prentice Hall, 1998. Presents a critical survey of the competing theories of popular culture, including the “culture and civilization” tradition, the American “mass culture” debate, culturalism, structuralism/post-structuralism, and postmodernism as well as new sections on popular culture and the carnivalesque and on postmodernism and the pluralism of value.

The Wages of Whiteness Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David R. Roediger, published by Verso, 1991. Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis and the new labor history pioneered by E.P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, the author provides a study of the formative years of working class racism in the United States. Roediger asserts that working class racism cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms which reinforce racial stereotypes and thus help to forge the identities of whiteworkers in opposition to blacks.

FOR DIVERSITY TRAINERS:

Human Diversity Workshop (Instructor's Guide and Participant Workbook) by George P. Banks, Ph.D., published by Human Resource Development Press, 1994. Utilizes a "skills" approach and "How-To" Curriculum to create cultural awareness and respect to result in fewer instances of bias and discrimination and better working relationships

50 Activities for Diversity Training by Jonamay Lambert and Selma Myers, published by Human Resource Development Press, Inc., 1994.

50 Activities for Managing Cultural Diversity by Terri Dickerson-Jones, published by Human Resource Development Press, Inc., 1993.

More Diversity Icebreakers a trainer's guide by Selma Myers and Jonamay Lambert, published by Amherst Educational Publishing, 1996.

Web Sites

American Association for Affirmative Action
Diversity Inc.
DiversityWeb
The Affirmative Action and Diversity Project
U.S. Census Bureau

Last updated: 27 August 2005
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