The Intercultural Campus

Transcending Culture & Power in American Higher Education

Author: Gregory Kazuo Tanaka
ISBN: 9780820441504

In a post-9/11 nation that is gripped by race fear, this book presents an approach to diversity that promotes peace and understanding across difference. Discussing studies conducted over an eight-year period, The Intercultural Campus reveals the underlying sources of racial fragmentation on college and university campuses and outlines a new framework for diversity. Citing the results from an innovative four-year project that completely transformed the culture of a university, Greg Tanaka describes specific programs that all campuses should implement when admitting diverse classes. Signaling a larger shift for progressives away from binary, essentialized notions of identity to individual agency, or «subjectivity», this book advances a social change philosophy based in interdependence and highlights the skills that future U.S. leaders will need to interact successfully with others in our diverse global society.

Publisher: Peter Lang
Publish Date: 2003-01

Subjects: Education / Higher, Education / Student Life & Student Affairs

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Education Studies (EDST))