Beyond Black and White: Addressing Race and Diversity in the Academy
Sep 21, 2005

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Rio Salado College
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Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
by Frank H. Wu

Beyond Black and White: Addressing Race and Diversity in the Academy

Sep 21, 2005
Rio Salado College
Conference Center
2:00pm - 4:30pm

featuring
Frank Wu
Dean Wayne State University Law School
Diversity/Affirmative Action Expert
and author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White

Selected Quotes From YELLOW: Race in America Beyond Black and White, 2002

Used with permmission of the author, June 2005

Chapter Four: Neither Black nor White
"Supporters of affirmative action are not so shortsighted as to believe that it can do everything. Not every problem in society is caused by race, and affirmative action is not the solution to every problem of race. We should consider all strategies that are proven effective in addressing racial discrimination, without supposing that they are mutually exclusive. Many of those strategies would complement affirmative action and be enhanced by racial sensitivity." [p. 170]

Chapter Four: Neither Black nor White
"Thus, it [affirmative action] prepares our society for racism and helps us to develop interracial relationships as a protective measure. It is well established the contact among people of different racial backgrounds on equal terms, as with students in a classroom, is the single best means of eliminating racial prejudice" [p. 170-171]

Chapter Eight: The Power of Coalitions
"Our coalitions are best if they are complete. Coalitions also must be crosscutting and changing: Individuals and groups should value their multiple commitments, and their combinations should shift depending on principles." [p. 337]

Chapter Eight: The Power of Coalitions
"It is the young, however, who will lead... They infuse society with a diversity that finally divorces race and culture but respects the values of difference. Civil society either founders on factions or is founded on coalitions. We all share a stake in the healing of the body politic. We must keep the faith." [p. 342]

Epilogue
"As persons and as a people, we ought to make choices that allow us to lead lives of integrity whether we prefer the universal or the individual. If we are to lead lives that are active and contemplative, the options are more similar than they are different. They are bound up affirmatively through the cultivation of mutual respect and the encouragement of independence, negatively in the rejection of materialism and superficiality...." [p. 348]