BOOKS ON DIVERSITY
The News Watch Diversity Style Guide
Click here to access the style guide. (Source: CIIJ)
Diversity Revisited: Good Ideas for Your Diversity Plan is a booklet published by the Diversity Committee of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC). The 2007-08 ASJMC Diversity Committee reviewed the diversity plans and self studies of over 50 journalism and mass communication programs nationwide. The committee identified both good and aweful diversity plans in their review. This informative booklet includes 7 chapters on "The Importance of Diversity," "Definitions of Diversity," "A Diverse Faculty," "A Diverse Student Body," "Diversity in the Curriculum," "A Supportive Climate," and "Diversity Plans and Assessment." This book is an important resource for any Journalism and Mass Communication schools for developing a diversity plan.
The Source Book of Multicultural Experts. Multicultural Marketing Resources, Inc. (MMR) has published the 11th edition of “The Source Book of Multicultural Experts” (ISBN 978-0-9817923-0-9). Marketing executives and journalists can find this book as a useful guide for professional activities. This book includes full contact information of about 200 companies and organizations. It also includes service description of some organizations. The full Source Book can also be viewed online at www.multicultural.com/Book/sourcebook.html
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Grandpa, Is everything Black bad? is a book written
for both children and adults. This book brings up the
issue of negative perceptions associated with dark colors and dark skin in particular. According to the
publisher, The Culture C.O.-O.P., this book "explores
a young boy's negative perception of himself as a
result of having dark skin in a world that values
European characteristics."
Reporting on Religion 2: A Stylebook on Journalism's Best Beat is a resource guide for the journalists who report on religion. It is a resource from the Religion Newswriters. This guide includes entries on the major religions, denominations, and religious organizations. It also includes "preferred spellings, capitalizations, some definitions, usage guidelines for religious terms, accurate titles of religious leaders in different traditions, selected pronounciation guides and contemporary issues in the news, such as abortion and homosexuality." This guideis written for journalists only;
it is not an encyclopedia of religion or a dictionary of religion.
"We All Have A Heritage" is a book that addresses the questions of many young European American children as to whether they also have a heritage.This book explores the fact of root cultures and the ways to bridge cultural divide. This is a publication from The Culture C.O.-O.P.
Making a Real Difference with Diversity provides readers with "a step-by-step guide for implementing, evaluating, and sustaining comprehensive diversity work on campus. . . . the monograph offers a set of promising practices and selected quantitative and qualitative findings pertaining to efforts to enhance college access and success for underrepresented students, increase the presence of underrepresented minority faculty, ..."
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The Authentic Voice – The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity,edited by Arlene Notoro Morgan, Alice Irene Pifer and Keith Woods. Compelling accounts of award-winning journalism that explore the richness of our cultures, and the skills and sensitivities required to cover diversity in contemporary news operations. The book has an accompanying DVD and is recommended for classrooms and newsrooms. The Manship School is pleased to have been involved with this project.
News in a New America by Sally Lehrman addresses the diversity of American news coverage and newsrooms. Lehrman is an award-winning medical and science policy writer and national diversity chair for the Society of Professional Journalists. Lehrman conducted extensive interviews in newsrooms across the country to address issues such as identification of unconscious stereotypes and reframing diversity issues. The full press release can be accessed here. The book can be viewed online here. Courtesy of the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation.
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