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BL
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1038746
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b793116
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| Main Entry
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Wood, Peter,1953-
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| Title & Author
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Diversity : : the invention of a concept /\ Peter Wood.
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| Edition Statement
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First paperback edition.
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| Publication Statement
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San Francisco, California :: Encounter Books,, 2004.
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, ©2003
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| Page. NO
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viii, 371 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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1594030421
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: 9781594030420
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| Notes
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"2003 Caldwell Award for Leadership in Higher Education"--Cover.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Diversity in America -- Imagined diversity -- Diversity before diversity -- The language of diversity -- Bakke and beyond -- Diverse gods -- Diversity afflicts the arts -- Identity business -- Diversity on campus -- Consuming diversity -- Selective diversity -- Multitudes.
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| Abstract
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"In just a few years, diversity has become America's most visible cultural ideal. Corporations alter their recruitment and hiring policies in the name of a diverse workforce. Universities institute new admissions procedures in the name of a diverse student body. Presidents choose their major appointees in the name of a diverse cabinet.
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"In this learned and entertaining book, Wood has undertaken nothing less than the biography of a concept. Drawing on classic texts of history and anthropology, science and religion, he shows that - contrary to the self-flattering assumptions of our time - Americans of earlier eras often met diversty open-mindedly, with a combination of awe, delight and curiosity."--BOOK JACKET.
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And what diversity proponents have in mind, Peter Wood argues, is not the dictionary meaning of the word - variety and multiplicity - but a new and often narrow kind of conformity." "Whether as prescribed numerial outcome or as the celebration of cultural difference, diversity, according to Wood, is now a deadening force in American life, a cliche that promotes group stereotypes and undermines any real diversity of ideas and individuals.".
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Cultural pluralism-- United States.
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Group identity-- United States.
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Minorities-- United States.
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Multiculturalism-- United States.
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Cultural pluralism.
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Ethnic relations.
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Etniska relationer.
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Group identity.
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Gruppidentitet.
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Kulturell mångfald.
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Minoriteter.
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Minorities.
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Multiculturalism.
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Pluralism (politiskt begrepp)
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Race relations.
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Rasrelationer.
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United States, Ethnic relations.
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United States, Race relations.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.8/00973
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| LC Classification
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E184.A1W715 2004
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