The Great Race of the Birds and Animals

Author: Paul Goble
Category: Ethnic Studies
ISBN: 9780689714528
Format : Paperback
Publisher : Aladdin Paperbacks

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Long ago, when the world was still quite new, buffaloes used to eat people. It is true? The hair on their chins is hair of the people they use to eat...It is Terrible to think about those times... But the Creator saw the people's distress and decreed that a contest be held between all the two-legged and four-legged creatures. Who would win, thundering Buffalo or fleet-footed Man? None of the other animals was fast enough, and before the end, Beaver and Muskrat slipped off into a cool stream, Jack-rabbit hopped off across the plain, and Mole and Gopher tunneled underground (and may still think the race is on).The winner was decided long ago, in Sioux and Cheyenne legend. Buffalo -- who lost -- agreed to give up eating men for dinner, and thanks to the cunning of a single magpie, Man became the guardian of the natural world.

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Corporations alter their recruitment and hiring policies in the name of a diverse workforce. Universities institute new admissions rules in the name of a diverse student body. What its proponents have in mind when they cite the compelling importance of diversity, Peter Wood argues, is not the dictionary meaning of the word--variety and multiplicity--but rather a set of prescribed numerical outcomes for racial and ethnic balance. In this entertaining book, Wood has undertaken nothing less than the biography of a concept. He traces the birth and evolution of "diversity," showing how it came to sprawl across politics, law, education, business, entertainment, personal aspiration, religion and the arts as an encompassing claim about human identity. It asserts that people are, above all else, members of social groups and products of the historical experiences of those groups. In this sense, Wood says, diversity is profoundly anti-individualist and at odds with America's older ideals of liberty and equality. Wood explains how the ideology of diversity has propelled the neoracialists on the political Right as well as those on the multiculturalist Left. But even if the diversity movement did not exacerbate racial and social divisions, he argues, it would still be a questionable cultural ideal. 371pp.

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Corporations alter their recruitment and hiring policies in the name of a diverse workforce. Universities institute new admissions rules in the name of a diverse student body. What its proponents have in mind when they cite the compelling importance of diversity, Peter Wood argues, is not the dictionary meaning of the word--variety and multiplicity--but rather a set of prescribed numerical outcomes for racial and ethnic balance. In this entertaining book, Wood has undertaken nothing less than the biography of a concept. He traces the birth and evolution of "diversity," showing how it came to sprawl across politics, law, education, business, entertainment, personal aspiration, religion and the arts as an encompassing claim about human identity. It asserts that people are, above all else, members of social groups and products of the historical experiences of those groups. In this sense, Wood says, diversity is profoundly anti-individualist and at odds with America's older ideals of liberty and equality. Wood explains how the ideology of diversity has propelled the neoracialists on the political Right as well as those on the multiculturalist Left. But even if the diversity movement did not exacerbate racial and social divisions, he argues, it would still be a questionable cultural ideal. 371pp. Grade A. Brand new - never been read.

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