Racing Across the Lines:

Changing Race Relations Through Friendship

Format: Paperback
By: Deborah L. Plummer
Plummer examines contemporary race relations through the lens of friendship and patterns of cross-racial socializing, and offers personal insight as well as perspectives from focus groups she conducted of persons between 15 and 65.

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Handbook of Diversity Management:

Beyond Awareness to Competency
Based Learning

Format: Paperback

By: Deborah L. Plummer

This book brings together a group of diversity practitioners and scholars to address a variety of topics that comprise the growing field of diversity management. The categories of topics include theoretical foundations, skill-based learning and professional issues. With a foreword by Taylor Cox, noted chapter contributors include R. Roosevelt Thomas, Marilyn Loden, Edward Hubbard, Judith Katz, Frederick Miller and other seasoned professionals in the diversity management field.

Going Plaid:

Integrating Diversity into Business Systems, Strategies and Structure

Format: PDF

Size: 180 k

Progressive organizations have taken heed that diversity needs to be woven into the overall business strategy and integrated into every aspect of the organization very much like producing a vibrant plaid fabric. This article discusses how to make it happen.