Diversity Archives - Public Seminar

Migration

Breaking the ‘Otherness’ Fixation

Diversity is held at the pinnacle of progressive thought, but full inclusion is far from becoming a reality

May 25, 2021 • by Halleh Ghorashi

_____ I arrived in the Netherlands as an asylum seeker in 1988. In Iran, I had been active in a revolution that later became an Islamic revolution. I felt connected to leftist movements all over the world, and the idea of international solidarity gave me strength and hope for the future. With ...

Education

Bridging the Gap: When Students from Two Very Different Campuses Find a Path to Understanding Each Other

Two reputations, two narratives, one goal: to listen, learn and value each other

February 4, 2021 • by Kevin Brown and Meredith Raimondo

"From our vantage point as Deans of Student Affairs (at two very different small liberal arts institutions), the process towards healing the divides in our nation could only be achieved through finding our collective humanity, not through vanquishing our alleged enemies. We wanted to keep the professed sentiments of President ...

Bridging the Gap: When Students from Two Very Different Campuses Find a Path to Understanding Each Other

Education

The Happy Talk of Diversity

How can American colleges affect real change?

July 23, 2020 • by James M. Thomas

Scholars who study diversity find that among ordinary actors, it has multiple and contested meanings. For many, diversity is enriching. The idea of people from different backgrounds coming together through shared values and working toward shared goals fits well with the ethos of America as a melting pot. Sociologists Douglas ...

The New School

Nurturing Subversive Seeds

What The New School’s Mobilization taught me

March 14, 2019 • by Judy Pryor-Ramirez

Most folks at The New School today haven’t heard of “the Mobilization,” the series of protests over questions of diversity and inclusion which convulsed the campus between 1996 and 1998. But I learned about it on my first day as Eugene Lang College’s first Director of Civic Engagement and Social Justice. ...

Education

Can Screened Schools Be Part Of A Diverse School System?

Why racial and income integration in the public schools matters

February 17, 2019 • by Clara Hemphill and Nicole Mader

The Mayor’s School Diversity Advisory Group this week released a report making a compelling case for why racial and income integration in the public schools matters. Now the challenge is coming up with realistic plans to make it happen -- and at the Center for New York City Affairs we ...

Can Screened Schools Be Part Of A Diverse School System?

Education

Butler’s “ethic of vulnerability” and redefining “liberal” in the “liberal arts”

December 16, 2015 • by Michael Weinman

In today’s post I want to do two things. First, I hope to continue my attempt to investigate the connection between engaging in the practice of liberal arts education in an expressly “diverse” intellectual and intercultural context and theorizing the relevant sense of recognizing another who is “like us.” Second, ...

Theory & Practice

The Creative Class Rises Again

March 26, 2014 • by Vince Carducci

When first published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Class quickly established its author Richard Florida as an urban policy and business management guru. The Rise of the Creative Class heralded the emergence of a new class of worker who promised to lead the economy, and along with it the rest ...

Uncategorized

A Post on Laughter and Remembering in Berlin

Diversity, tension, relief, and the Stolpersteine

December 20, 2013 • by Irit Dekel

“...and this woman in the chic coat: is she going to clean also?”

Responding to advertisements calling for people to “actively remember,” on November 9 and 10, 2013, in Berlin and other German cities, the commemorative Stolpersteine (or “the stumbling blocks”) were physically cleaned. The Stolpersteine are little brass plaques placed ...