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Talking about Race : Community Dialogues and the Politics of Difference.

It is a perennial question: how should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? More than 400 communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. In Talking about Race, Katherine Cramer Walsh t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walsh, Katherine Cramer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Colección:Studies in communication, media, and public opinion.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:It is a perennial question: how should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? More than 400 communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. In Talking about Race, Katherine Cramer Walsh takes an eye-opening look at this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it. With extensive observations of community dialogues, interviews with the discussants, and sophisticated analysis of national data, Walsh shows that while.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (358 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-331) and index.
ISBN:9780226869087
0226869083
0226869067
9780226869063