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cds.gif (5364 bytes) 505 pages, 8 1/2" x 11" softcover
Edited by Dr. Bob Abramms & Dr. George F. Simons
New index for 2004!

Introduction

Preface
Dialogue
Democracy - Leonard Cohen
Managing Diversity in Stressful Times

Class: Previously Unspeakable

Dialogue
The Mighty Wedge of Class - R. Todd Erkel (Family Therapy Networker)
Success Dividing Blacks - Margaret Usdansky (USA Today)
Time is Not on Their Side - Elizabeth Taylor (Time)
Chance Beings: An Interview with Jerzy Kosinski -Jeffrey Grunberg & Benedict Giamo
Down & Out in Washington - Neal Karlen with Nikki Finke Greenberg (Newsweek)
The Ludlow Massacre - Howard Zinn
Critical Indicators of a Need for Global Culture - Sharif M. Abdullah
1.3 Million Drop into Poverty - Sam Fulwood III & Melissa Healy (Los Angeles Times)
On Values: Peggy Noonan interviews Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
In Search of a Good Name - Richard Lacayo (Time)

African Americans: A Unique Dilemma

Dialogue
What its like to be a Black Manager - Edward W. Jones, Jr. (Harvard Business Review)
Black Managers: the dream deferred - Edward W. Jones, Jr. (Harvard Business Review)
Rage of the Privileged - Elis Cose (Newsweek
Spending Culture - bell hooks
Band Aid - A play by Eric Law
The Problem With You People - Jake Lamar (Esquire)
Assumptions that Block/Facilitate - Bertram Lee & Warren H. Schmidt
Interview: Peggy Noonan & Shelby Steele
False cultural pride is self-destructive - Bill Maxwell (St. Petersburg Times)
Letter to Jack - Anthony Walton

Gender Issues: Pervasive & Persistent

Dialogue
The Ultimate Cultural Difference and How to Bridge it - George F. Simons (International Management Development Review)
Management Women and The New Facts of Life - Felice N. Schwartz (Harvard Business Review)
Gray Matters - Sharon Begley (Newsweek)
Walking Out on the Boys - Elizabeth L'Hommedieu interviews Dr. Francis Conley (TIME)
Gender Issues in the Workplace: An Interview with George F. Simons
Making Sense of la Difference - Barbara Ehrenreich (TIME)

Diverse America: Yes and No

Dialogue
The More Things Change - George F. Simons
Innocents Abroad: Yes, Virginia There is an American Culture - George F. Simons
The New Generation Gap - Neil Howe and William Strauss (Atlantic Monthly)
White, Male, and Worried - Michele Galen with Therese Palmer (Business Week)
Burdens on Asian-Americans - Anne Kim (Los Angeles Times)
Recognizing Sexual Orientation is Fair & Not Costly
- Michelle Neely Martinez (HR Magazine)
Making Our Society Safe for Differences - An Interview with Samuel Betances
Sensitivity Toward European Americans - Resisting Defamation
Italians: The Other Internees - Annie Nakao (San Francisco Examiner)
Crossed Wires - Kathleen Doheny (Los Angeles Times)
Human Family - Maya Angelou

Best Practices

Dialogue
American Express Financial Services Report to Benchmark Partners
Teaching Language and Culture - George F. Simons
Majority Supports Steps to Diversity - John Balzar (Los Angeles Times)
Managing Your Starship: Multicultural Management for 21st Century - Dianne Floyd Sutton
Getting the Best Results from a Diversity Action Council - James O. Rodgers (Managing Diversity Newsletter)
The Byword is Flexible - Mary Cook (Management Review)
Developing Multicultural Organizations - Bailey Jackson & Evangelina Holvino
Team Building to Break Down Cultural Barriers - Lee Gardenswartz & Anita Rowe
Successful Implementation of Cultural Diversity Programs  - Rita Boags
A More Accurate Way to Measure Diversity - Karen Stephenson & Valdis Krebs (Personnel Journal)
The Challenge to Diversity - Tom Chappell

Diversity Under Fire

Dialogue
Where Diversity Training Goes Wrong - Hank Karp & Nancy Sutton
(Training Magazine)
Cult of Ethnicity, Good and Bad - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (TIME)
Free Speech Under Assault - George Bush
PC in Corporate America - Leon McKinney (Orange County Register)
Diversity is Not a Virtue, Mark Helprin (Wall Street Journal)
The Diverse Workforce - John Cowan (OD Practitioner)
Response by Judy Hoy
Response by Jeanne Cherbeneau
Teach Diversity With a Smile - Barbara Ehrenreich (TIME)

Applications

Dialogue
The Disabled: Ready, Willing and Able, Geber (Training)
Got the Message? Giving Feedback in a Diverse Environment - Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe (Managing Diversity Newsletter)
Understanding Diversity Blind Spots in the Performance Review - Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe (Managing Diversity Newsletter)
The Importance of Managing Cultural Diversity - Deena Levine
Quality Through Equality - Dale S. Brown (TQM Rehab)
The Power of Cohorts - Geoffrey Meredith & Charles Schewe (American Demographics)
The Importance of Culture in Marketing - Marlene L. Rossman
The New Spin on Corporate Work Teams - Cassandra Hayes (Black Enterprise)

Spirit

Dialogue
Spiritual Dimensions of Globalization - Sally J. Walton
The Gospel of Guyhood - Kenneth L. Woodward (Newsweek)
A Soft Answer - Terry Dobson
Us Versus Them - Ralph G. H. Siu
The Foreigner in Each of Us - Elie Weisel (Christian Science Monitor)
Moving From Blame to Dialogue - Linda Teurfs
Islamic Universalism - Rabia Terri Harris
The Baha'is: Introduction to a World Community
Lessons for Diversity from the Spiritual Realm - Eric Law
Jewish Sources of Inspiration - Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann
Where Do Mermaids Stand? - Robert Fulghum

Alternative Models and Visions

Dialogue
Diversity Training From the Gestalt Perspective - Hank Karp
Using Values to Manage Diversity - George Simons, Carmen Vazquez, & Philip R. Harris
What Type of Person Are You? - Helen Pelikan & Barbara Deane
True Colors - Tony Hill
Working With Resistance to Diversity - Hank Karp
Developing a Whole Organisation Culture - Geof Cox & Walt Hopkins
Circles and Triangles - Billi Lee
Ubuntu - Lente-Louise Louw

Key Dilemmas: Assimilaton, Acculturation & Subtle Discrimination

Dialogue
Keeping Hate out of the Workplace - Charlene Marmer Solomon (Personnel Journal)
The Fear of Losing a Culture - Richard Rodriguez (TIME)
Only English Spoken Here - Margaret Carlson (TIME)
When Language Causes a Barrier - Lee Gardenswartz & Anita Rowe (Managing Diversity Newsletter)
Skills for Future Success - Everett Robinson
A Case for Moving from Tolerance to Valuing Diversity:
The Issue of Religiously Distinctive Dress and Appearance -
Hindy Lauer Schachter (Review of Public Policy Administration)
Beauty Pays - George F. Simons & Sally J. Walton
Recognizing the "New" Racism - John Dovidio
Teaming High Performance with Inclusion: A Case Study -
Judith H. Katz & Frederick A. Miller

Dismantling of Affirmative Action

Dialogue
From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity -
R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. (Harvard Business Review)
Affirmative Action: Never Ending Folly - Paul Craig Roberts (Scripps News)
Black Pride for White People - Adrian Piper (Transition)
Who's what?: The crazy world of racial identification - Lawrence Wright (The New Yorker)
Life and Work aren't Fair - Billi Lee
Masks of Minority Terrorism - Pico Iyer (TIME)
AA on the Edge - Steven V. Roberts (US News & World Report)
Black & Blue - Paul Glastris
Kara Hultgreen - Ellen Goodman (Boston Globe)
Class, Not Race - Richard Kahlenberg (The New Republic)

The Future

Dialogue
State of Union Address - President William Clinton (Congressional Record)
Welfare Hell - John Callahan
The Assumptions that Underlie Social Problems - Richard Moran
Learning to Talk of Race & Class - Cornel West
Getting Real!: Where are we, where are we going - Bob Abramms & George F. Simons

Addenda

Editors' Biographies
Resources (4 pages)
Questions of Diversity
Cultural Diversity Library
GSI materials
Trainers Workshop on Cultural Diversity

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