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Diversity
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Diversity News
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Diversity Newslinks is a monthly email
service that provides timely information related diversity
concerns in healthcare and higher education. We aim to cover
a broad range of topics, provide a balance of theory and
practical advice, and accept suggestions from you, the subscriber.
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BOOKS OF THE MONTH
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The Race Card : How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
by Richard Thompson Ford
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Pub. Date: January 2008
What do Katrina victims waiting for federal disaster relief, millionaire rappers buying vintage champagne, Ivy League professors waiting for taxis, and ghetto hustlers trying to find steady work have in common? All have claimed to be victims of racism. These days almost no one openly expresses racist beliefs or defends bigoted motives. So lots of people are victims of bigotry, but no one's a bigot? What gives? Either a lot of people are lying about their true beliefs and motivations, or a lot of people are jumping to unwarranted conclusions—or just playing the race card.
As the label of “prejudice” is applied to more and more situations, it loses a clear and agreed-upon meaning. This makes it easy for self-serving individuals and political hacks to use accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, and other types of “bias” to advance their own ends. Richard Thompson Ford, a Stanford Law School professor, brings sophisticated legal analysis, lively and eye-popping anecdotes, and plain old common sense to this heated topic. He offers ways to separate valid claims from bellyaching. Daring, entertaining, and incisive, The Race Card is a call for us to treat racism as a social problem that must be objectively understood and honestly evaluated.
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Doorway Thoughts : Cross-Cultural Health Care for Older Adults
by Reva Adler, American Geriatrics Society, Hosam Kamel, Hosam Kamel
Now in its Fifth Edition, this text conveys the importance of diverse cultural knowledge for evaluation of patient outcomes, understanding persons in clinical settings, and appropriate responses during the nurse/client interaction. This edition features a new chapter on international nursing by Dr. Paula Herberg, who has worked extensively with Islamic populations. The text addresses the new transcultural nursing challenges brought about by immigration, refugee programs, illegal migration, and the changing healthcare delivery system. New case studies and critical thinking exercises focus on cultural responses to bioterrorism, border health issues, and concerns related to health disparities. |
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2008 JUNE LINKS
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Workforce Diversity
WHAT IS DIVERSITY? The term "diversity" is used broadly to refer to many demographic variables, including, but not limited to, race, religion, color, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, age, education, geographic origin, and skill characteristics. America's diversity has given this country its unique strength, resilience and richness.
http://www.doi.gov/diversity/workforce_diversity.html
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Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans History Month
Claiming our history, celebrating our present, creating our future!
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans History Month celebrates the lives and achievements of the LGBT community. We are committed to celebrate its diversity and that of the society as a whole. We encourage everyone to see diversity and cultural pluralism as the positive forces that they are and endeavour to reflect this in all we do.
http://www.lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/index2.htm
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JUNE
is Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Pride Month
19th is Juneteenth, an African-American celebration
21st is the Summer Solstice
23rd is St. John's Eve, a Finnish celebration
23rd-24th is the GLBT Pride Festival in Minneapolis
26th is Svenskarnas Dag, a Swedish heritage celebration
26th is Somali Independence Day
http://diversityminnesota.com/calendar.php
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Listen to Diversity Matters Podcast
co-hosted by Duke's Director of Diversity & Equity Programs, Judy Seidenstein
Season 1, Episode 8
Brian McNaught – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Inclusion: Breaking the Silence
While most Americans believe that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people should not be discriminated against in the workplace, most also mistakenly believe that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity/expression is illegal in the U.S. Is sexual orientation a personal private matter that has little relevance to the workplace? How do we promote inclusiveness with respect to sexual orientation and gender identity/expression without alienating those whose values and beliefs are that homosexuality is wrong?
Co-hosts Judy Seidenstein and Richard Friend address these and other provocative questions with Brian McNaught . Named the “godfather of gay diversity training,” by The New York Times, McNaught has been educating the public about this topic since 1974. Brian also talks about his new DVD/Video series entitled “Understanding and Managing Gay and Transgender Issues in the Workplace” which teaches why the topic can be challenging for many people, and how personal moral values do not prevent colleagues from embracing efforts to create a safe and productive work environment. Joining Judy, Richard is Sheryl Pollock an out lesbian woman who has worked for the City of Toronto for 17 years. Sheryl tells her personal story about what has made her experience at work so positive and offers suggestions for promoting inclusiveness for LGBT people at work.
http://www.diversitymatters.info/podcast.html
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LOCAL LINKS
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Health Careers / Workforce Diversity
The NC AHEC mission to improve the supply and distribution of the health care workforce mandates support for statewide initiatives to increase minority representation in health professions. NC AHEC collaborative efforts to provide support at every link of the educational pipeline will ultimately promote workforce diversity while ensuring a profile that more closely reflects the composition of the general population of North Carolina.
Statistics show that in all health professions, minority populations continue to be under-represented relative to the overall population in the state. While African Americans, Native Americans and Hispanic/Latinos account for 10% of North Carolina's healthcare workforce, these same minority groups comprise 24% of the state's population.
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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
2008 Spring
Award Breakfast
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