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- Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA)The Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) office provides advising, services, and activities that promote the academic success, personal growth, and development of multiethnic students. MESA also conducts educational programs that enhance learning through the promotion of respect and appreciation of racial and ethnic diversity. MESA supports the academic mission of UW-Green Bay and contributes to the development of a campus community dedicated to diversity of thought and experience.
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- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack byCall Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2007"...I have begun in an untutored way to ask what it is like to have white privilege. I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious. "
Moving Diversity Forward by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2012"If you believe that your organization has done everything it can to enhance its diversity, and if you are still frustrated at how little progress you have made, Moving Diversity Forward is for you. It is an instructive read for all of those who wish to live and work in a multi-cultural world where everyone has a fair chance to succeed and contribute."-- Frank P. Barron, Chief Legal Officer, Morgan Stanley
What If I Say the Wrong Thing? by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2014In this compelling new tip book you'll find innovative and surprising ways to keep your personal diversity journey moving and the diversity commitment of your organization. Written to make this information bite-size and accessible, you'll find quick answers to typical What should I do? questions, like: What if I say the wrong thing, what should I do? What if I am work and someone makes a sexist joke, what should I say?
A Different Mirror by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1993Describes the immigrant experiences of Japanese, African, Irish, and Jewish Americans, exposing the abuses suffered by Native Americans, slaves, and workers who built the country. Awards: Christopher.
Witnessing Whiteness by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2010Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor relationships with people of color. Drawing on dialogue with well-known figures within education, race, and multicultural work, the book offers intimate, personal stories of cross-race friendships that address both how a deep understanding of whiteness supports cross-race collaboration and the long-term nature of the work of excising racism from the deep psyche.
Cracking the codes : the system of racial inequity by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2012In the U.S., race --more than any other demographic factor-- determines levels of individual educational achievement, health and life expectancy, possibility of incarceration, and wealth. This film reveals a self-perpetuating system of inequity in which internal factors play out in external structures: institutions, policy and law.
White Like Me by Call Number: Click title to check availiabilityPublication Date: 2013From his experiences as a white anti-racist activist and white American, Tim Wise has crafted the first history of what it means to be part of the "majority" in America. Combining the emotion of personal stories with insights gleaned from fifteen years as an educator, White Like Me examines the ways in which whites reap the benefits of "racial preferences" - whether or not they actively engage in racism.
Race: The Power of an Illusion by Call Number: Online access or Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2003This series challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs: that humans come divided into a few distinct biological groups. This...series is an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs.
True Colors by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1996Since the revolutions of the sixties, the United States has claimed great strides in the fight for equality. What in reality has been accomplished? Two men, equal in all measurable aspects except skin color, are involved in a variety of situations (with hidden microphones and cameras) to test levels of prejudice based on skin color.- People like us: social class in America by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2001How do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? Discusses how social class plays a role in the lives of all Americans, whether they live in Park Avenue penthouses, Appalachian trailer parks, bayou houseboats or suburban gated communities. Travels across the U.S. to present stories of family traditions, class mobility, and different lifestyle choices.
- PBS: Race- The Power of an IllusionThe online companion to California Newsreel's 3 part documentary about race in society, science, and history.
- Witnessing WhitenessCompanion website to Shelly Tochluk's book,Witnessing Whiteness