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Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post-Civil Rights America

Jiannbiin Lee Shiao
2004

Author: Jiannbin Lee Shiao- “Diversity” has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity, Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in establishing diversity as a goal throughout American society in the post–civil rights era. By creating and institutionalizing diversity policies, these private organizations have...

Apple Pie and Enchiladas- Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest

Jorge Chapa
Ann V. Millard
2005

by Ann V. Millard andJorge Chapa-

The sudden influx of significant numbers of Latinos to the rural Midwest stems from the recruitment of workers by food processing plants and small factories springing up in rural areas. Mostly they work at back-breaking jobs that local residents are not willing to take because of the low wages and few benefits. The...

The Company Doctor Risk, Responsibility, and Corporate Professionalism

Elaine Draper
2007

by Elaine Draper: To limit the skyrocketing costs of their employees' health insurance, companies such as Dow, Chevron, and IBM, as well as many large HMOs, have increasingly hired physicians to supervise the medical care they provide. As Elaine Draper argues in The Company Doctor, company doctors are bound by two conflicting ideals: serving the medical needs of their patients while protecting the company's bottom line. Draper analyzes the advent of the corporate physician both as an independent phenomenon, and as an index of contemporary culture,...

Dreaming No Small Dreams: Williams R. Harvey's Visionary Leadership

Lois Benjamin
2004

Lois Benjamin- "In 1868, the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute opened its doors under the leadership of its twenty-nine-year-old founder, General Samuel Chapman Armstrong. In spite of a proud history, social movements and the national economy had brought the institute to the brink of disaster 110 years later when William R. Harvey was appointed president. Brushing aside suggestions that the institute abandon its program of higher education and reconstitute itself as a preparatory school, Harvey began by dreaming dreams that were both big and...

Download Cover Image Download book flyer Anthropologists in the Public Sphere- Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power

Roberto J. González
2004

Edited by Roberto J. González- Anthropologists have a long tradition of prescient diagnoses of world events. Possessing a knowledge of culture, society, and history not always shared by the media's talking heads, anthropologists have played a crucial role in educating the general reader on the public debates from World War I to the second Gulf War.

This anthology collects over fifty commentaries by noted anthropologists such as Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, and...

When Women Come First- Gender and Class in Transnational Migration

Sheba George
2005

Sheba George- With a subtle yet penetrating understanding of the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class, Sheba George examines an unusual immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. Focusing on a group of female nurses who moved from India to the United States before their husbands, she shows that this story of economic mobility and professional achievement conceals underlying conditions of...

Free at Last? Black America in the Twenty-first Century

Anthony J. Lemelle, Jr.
2006

Juan Battle, Michael Bennett, Anthony J. Lemelle- As this volume indicates, the issues facing black America are diverse, and the...

Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change

Pedro Noguera
2006

Edited By Pedro Noguera, Julio Cammarota, Shawn Ginwright- The failure of current policy to address important quality of...

Girls in Trouble with the Law

2006

Laurie Schaffner- In Girls in Trouble with the Law, sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside juvenile detention centers and explores the worlds of the young women incarcerated within. Across the nation, girls of color are disproportionately represented in detention facilities, and many report having experienced physical harm and sexual assaults. For girls, the meaning of these and other factors such as the violence...

The Social Context of the Mau Mau Movement in Kenya (1952-1960)

2006

Kinuthia Macharia and Muigai Kanyua- The Social Context of the Mau Mau Movement in Kenya (1952-1960) explores the social aspects of the Mau Mau Movement, which have been relatively unexamined in scholarly studies of the movement. This work situates the Mau Mau in the context of "Social Movement" literature; and more importantly, blends theory and practice through the use of first-hand narrative from Muigai Kanyua, a fighter in the Mau Mau forest for at least three years. Muigai Kanyua describes the need for strong social...