He doesn’t seem to hear me when I tell him to pick up his socks, but on the bigger issues… My child asked another if she was Korean or Chinese, because, as he said “I didn’t want to assume.” He asked if you could tell someone’s race from their bones. (Specifically, would people be racist if…
DetailsThere are two concepts I always remember from Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: The Left-Hand Column and The Ladder of Inference. The Left-Hand Column asks you to compare on a piece of paper “what was said” in the right-hand column with “what you were thinking and feeling, but not saying” in the left-hand…
DetailsThe Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Henry Louis-Gate – Race Card www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Spinal Tap Performance I’m nervous about the “Beer Summit” tonight. It actually could be a great opportunity to have a meaningful conversation about how stereotypes and bias play out in the…
Details“Now that’s what I’m talking about with Intercultural Communications,” I thought when I read this story about acceptance of bomb sniffing dogs in Iraq. The good is clear and measurable–it’s a known, effective defense against bomb attacks. The cultural implications are readily definable: dogs are considered unclean, getting in the way of the important bond…
DetailsThere’s an exercise that I’ve seen used in diversity trainings that has to do with labeling or cultural identification. On a piece of paper, create two columns. On the left, list the groups you would use to describe yourself, that you might identify with. For example I’m white, Jewish, Female, mother, social justice, close affinity…
DetailsPhoto from the Chicago Daily News There was an interview on Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight today with Bill Tuttle, a professor emeritus at University of Kansas, who wrote the book Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919. He was interviewed on the 90th anniversary of the riots, which left many dead.The arrest…
DetailsI am admittedly a woman of action. I see something broken, and I want to fix it. In the annals of ‘how to lists’ advising employees to get noticed, there’s the advice if you see a problem have at least one suggestion solution to present to the boss before you go in and speak to…
DetailsI was searching for demographics for Chicago’s Hyde Park Neighborhood for background information for a call for volunteers I am posting for the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. Known to be the home of the University of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry, and a very diverse neighborhood, I was surprised to find that 2000…
DetailsI know everyone has moved onto the Henry Louis Gates story, which is awful-I would be furious if that happened to me-oh, wait, it did, after I accidentally set the alarm off in our new house before I knew the code. When the police arrived I said something coy like “I have absolutely nothing in…
DetailsTalking about racial identity and multiculturalism is trendy, and what good marketer doesn’t immediately exploit a trend to make a buck? Take a look at these three ads that incorporate interracial themes in the creative development of the ad for their client: Starburst-Multiculturalism is the “punch-line” (by TBWA\Chiat\Day New York) This ad builds an analogy…
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