The selection of readings for this workshop has been carefully designed to provide you with a balanced (and controversial) look at the contemporary academic discussion on the subject of diversity. Click on an extract to access the reading.
SESSION ONE : How America Has Changed.
Featured Extract; William Julius Wilson, et al., AMERICA BECOMING (National Academy Press, 2001) (EXTRACT)
Debra Delaet, U.S IMMIGRATION POLICY IN AN AGE OF RIGHTS (Praeger, 2000).
David Foot et al., BOOM, BUST &ECHO:Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the 21st. Century (Macfarlane Walter and Ross, 2001)
Garett Hardin, LIVING WITHIN LIMITS:Ecology, Economics and Population Taboos (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Michael R Haines, editor, A POPULATION HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA ( New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Courtenay M. Slater, STATE PROFILES: The Population and Economy of Each U.S. State (Bernan Associates, 2nd. Edition, May 2002).
Michael Teitelbaum and Jay Winter, HIGH MIGRATION, LOW FERTILITY AND THE POLITICS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY (N.Y.: Hill and Wang, 1998)
William Julius Wilson et al., AMERICA BECOMING: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, Volumes 1 and 2 (National Academy Press, 2001)
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Ben Wattenberg, THE FIRST UNIVERSAL NATION: Leading Indicators and Ideas About the Surge of America in the 1990s (New York: The Free Press, 1991)
SESSION TWO: Why America Changed
SESSION THREE: The Intellectual Underpinnings for Change
SESSION FOUR: The Pros and Cons of Diversity
SESSION FIVE: The America of Tomorrow--Three Scenarios