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Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen - Susan E. Chase

Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen

How Diversity Works on Campus

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Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2010
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-4912-3 (ISBN)
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"This book about diversity offers a fresh perspective and is an important reminder to all that context matters, and what we say and do (our narrative practices) shape and are shaped by it."—Susan Murphy, Cornell University
Over the past three decades, colleges and universities have committed to encouraging, embracing, and supporting diversity as a core principle of their mission. But how are goals for achieving and maintaining diversity actually met? What is the role of students in this mission? When a university is committed to diversity, what is campus culture like? In Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen, Susan E. Chase portrays how undergraduates at a predominantly white urban institution, which she calls "City University" (a pseudonym), learn to speak and listen to each other across social differences.


Chase interviewed a wide range of students and conducted content analyses of the student newspaper, student government minutes, curricula, and website to document diversity debates at this university. Amid various controversies, she identifies a defining moment in the campus culture: a protest organized by students of color to highlight the university's failure to live up to its diversity commitments. Some white students dismissed the protest, some were hostile to it, and some fully engaged their peers of color.


In a book that will be useful to students and educators on campuses undergoing diversity initiatives, Chase finds that both students' willingness to share personal stories about their diverse experiences and collaboration among student organizations, student affairs offices, and academic programs encourage speaking and listening across differences and help incorporate diversity as part of the overall mission of the university.

Susan E. Chase is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tulsa. She is author of Ambiguous Empowerment: The Work Narratives of Women School Superintendents and coauthor of Mothers and Children: Feminist Analyses and Personal Narratives.

Preface

IntroductionPart I. City University's Narrative Landscape

1 Diversity at City University

2 Conflicting Discourses

3 Race in CU’s Narrative LandscapePart II. Students’ Personal Narratives

4 Learning to Speak

5 Learning to ListenPart III. Students’ Protest and Response

6 Creating a Voice of Protest

7 Walking on Eggshells (And Other Responses)

8 Doing the Work of AlliesReflections

EpilogueAppendixes

A Note to People at CU

B Methodological Issues

C Interviewees and Interview Guides

D Detailed Tables and Methods of Content AnalysisNotes

Selected References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.9.2010
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 907 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 0-8014-4912-X / 080144912X
ISBN-13 978-0-8014-4912-3 / 9780801449123
Zustand Neuware
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