The Intercultural Campus - Transcending Culture and Power in American Higher Education

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.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Tanaka
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.2007
• EAN: 9780820441504
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-4150-4
• No. of pages: 217
• Weight: 320 g
• Series: Counterpoints
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries