Race and Gender

Beyond Race And Gender: Unleashing The Power Of Your Total Work Force By Managing Diversity

R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.

American Management Association, New York, NY (1991)

Beyond Race and Gender supplies an action plan, a model case study, and tough questions and answers to get readers thinking deeply about how to better use the human talent available. In this visionary work, R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., rouses organizations to face the facts and embrace the challenges-because it is the only efficient way for America to compete and prosper.

Breaking The Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach The Top Of America's Largest Corporations?

Ann M. Morrison, Randall P. White, Ellen Van Velsor, and the Center for Creative Leadership

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, MA; Menlo Park, CA (1987)

This book discusses how many corporate women have paid their dues, even a premium, for the chance of getting a top executive position, but most have run into a glass ceiling, a transparent barrier that keeps them from rising above a certain level in corporations. The glass ceiling is not simply a barrier based on an individual's inability to handle a higher-level job; rather it applies to women as a group who are kept from advancing higher because they are women.

Empowering Women: Leadership Development Strategies On Campus

Mary Ann Danowitz Sagaria

Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, CA (1988)

This volume of New Directions for Student Services builds on the experiences and values of women to provide an expansive view of leadership for women in colleges and universities. The authors focus on the roles of professionals in higher education and the opportunities these roles present for working with women students. This source book offers successful strategies, experiences, and programs for enhancing the leadership development of women.

Men And Women: Partners At Work

George F. Simons and G. Deborah Weissman

Crisp Publications, Inc., Los Altos, Ca

This is a comprehensive book on understanding, respecting and improving communications between the sexes. This book will help you to: know the issues; learn how people and organizations develop; accept gender differences; speak with respect; learn from each other; create understanding; come to agreement; collaborate; pay attention to each other; and use available resources.

My Soul Looks Back In Wonder

Juan Williams

Sterling Publishing Co., New York, NY (2004)

In this book the author presents the dramatic and uplifting stories of men and women who have been profoundly transformed by their experiences on the front lines of freedom.

Racism On Campus: Confronting Racial Bias Through Peer Interventions

Jon C. Dalton

Jossey-Bass, Inc. San Francisco, CA (1991)

Racial incidents on campus reflect increasing strain, lack of awareness, and limited contact among college students of differing racial and ethnic groups. Student peers must play a central role in confronting bias incidents and in promoting awareness and appreciation of racial and ethnic differences. This volume examines ways in which peer leadership can be promoted on campus.

The Black Image In The White Mind: Media and Race In America

Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL (2000)

Living in a segregated society, White Americans learn about African Americans less through personal relationships than through the images the media show them This book offers a long overdue and comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of Whites toward Blacks.

The Dance Of Disempowerment

Barry Oshry

Power & Systems, Inc., Boston, MA (1992)

This book is about the dance that takes place in organizations a dance of disempowerment; a dance of disillusionment; despair, frustration, waste, blame, hurt, missed opportunities, good intentions, gone astray. It is a dance we all dance together. The dance is everywhere in small businesses, and giant corporations, high tech firms and low tech firms, school systems and universities, weapons manufacturers and world peace institutes.

The Nazification Of Russia

Semyon Reznik

Challenge Publications, Washington, DC (1996)

 

"Currently political situation in Russia makes Semyon Reznik's account extremely important and acute. It traces the development of official Russian anti-Semitism through the ages, but mostly shows the brown shirted "patriots" of today. Based on thousands of facts and documents, this brilliantly written book sheds a new light on rising Russian fascism." by Galina Starovoitova, member of Russian State Dums, distinguished Professor of Brown University (1994-95)

Up With Hope - A Biography of Jesse Jackson

Dorothy Chaplik

Dillon Press, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (1986)

Jesse knew from childhood how it feels to be left out. But the love in his family, the strength of his faith, and Jesse's own desire not to be left out inspired him to try his best at everything.

When In Rome: A Business Guide To Cultures & Customs In European Nations

John Mole

American Management Association, New York. NY (1990)

Did you know that table-pounding is considered acceptable in America, embarrassing in Britain, uncouth in Germany, rude in Luxembourg, and commonplace in France? If you work abroad or plan to soon, you need When in Rome...an entertaining and practical book of "rules" to help you avoid the social and business faux pas that can spoil a cross-cultural business relationship before it's even begun.

White to White on Black/White

Toni E. Weaver, Ph.D.

Voices Publishing, Vandalia, OH (1993)

This book is educational and motivational for whites who want to know how racism is perpetuated in America, how they contribute to the problem and how they can become part of the solution.

You Just Don't Understand - Women And Men In Conversation

Deborah Tannen, Ph.D.

Ballantine Books, New York, NY (1990)

People are telling Tannen that the book is saving their marriages. What this book says is that men and women grow up behaving in such profoundly different ways, and seeing themselves connecting to others in such profoundly different ways, that the two sexes are really trying to communicate across two different cultures. YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND goes a long way toward explaining why men and women behave in ways that baffle their partners.