http://ondiversity.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:55:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From the archive of The Nation, May 29, 1984 The Supreme Court says separate but equal is inherently unequal. The Supreme Court's decision outlawing segregation in American public education was unanimous. If anything, world opinion was even more emphatic. Even the Communist powers, we suspect, must privately have applauded the decision. In ... http://ondiversity.com/2010/03/18/brown-v-board-of-education-the-climax-of-an-era/ Transcript from The New York Times, March 18, 2008 The following is the text as prepared for delivery of Senator Barack Obama’s speech on race in Philadelphia, as provided by his presidential campaign. “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.” Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a ... http://ondiversity.com/2010/03/16/barack-obamas-speech-on-race/ From Brook Barnes, in The New York Times On that supercharged day in 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., she rode her way into history books, credited with helping to ignite the civil rights movement. But there was another woman, ... http://ondiversity.com/2010/02/13/from-footnote-to-fame-in-civil-rights-history/ We are pleased to announce that three wonderful tours have been added to the 2010 Diversity Conference in Belfast, Ireland from 19 July - 21 July!  Register soon - space is limited! [caption id="attachment_2354" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Belfast City Hall"][/caption] Introduction to Belfast: Beginning from Queen's University, this tour tells the story of Belfast ... http://ondiversity.com/2010/02/12/announcing-new-tours-added-to-the-2010-diversity-conference/ by Frederick Douglass, in Infoplease In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and in various writings since, I have given the public what I considered very good reasons for withholding the manner of my escape. In substance these reasons were, first, that such ... http://ondiversity.com/2010/02/11/selected-essays-from-black-history-my-escape-from-slavery/ From George Soros in The Guardian Continued discrimination against Roma in Europe not only violates human dignity, but is a major social problem crippling the development of eastern European countries with large Roma populations. Spain, which has been more successful in dealing with its Roma problem than other countries, can take ... http://ondiversity.com/2010/02/06/europe-needs-educated-roma/ From Thomas Rogers, in Salon The author of a new book talks about the brain's hidden impulses, and why you're more biased than you think: Of the many viral-video meltdowns pop culture has endured, few are as viscerally disturbing, as painful to watch, as Michael Richards' racist rant during a 2006 stand-up ... http://ondiversity.com/2010/02/04/the-hidden-brain-behind-your-secret-racism/ The latest issue of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations includes: TLC³ -Teaching and Learning Connections, City and Country: Creating Partnerships between City and Remote Rural Educational Settings by Coral Cara. Russians from China: Migrations and Identity by Mara Moustafine. The Fatal Errors of Cross-Cultural Communication in United States Troops in ... http://ondiversity.com/2010/01/28/latest-diversity-journal-papers/ From The Economist THE late Paul Samuelson once quipped that “women are just men with less money”. As a father of six, he might have added something about women’s role in the reproduction of the species. But his aphorism is about as good a one-sentence summary of classical feminism as you ... http://ondiversity.com/2010/01/26/womenomics-feminist-management-theorists-are-flirting-with-some-dangerous-arguments/ The latest issue of The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations includes: The Relationship between Schools’ Feeding Programmes and Learning Achievement: A Study of Boarding Secondary Schools in Nigeria by Roseline Emeh Uyanga. The Ethnography of a Turkish Wedding: Symbolic Interaction, Ritualistic Ceremonies and Secularism by Michael W. Smith. Participatory Action Research ... http://ondiversity.com/2010/01/25/diversity-journal-recently-published/