Hello everyone,
I'd like your advice finding resources for a project.
I am part of an interdisciplinary group of faculty members at University
of Michigan - Dearborn working on compiling materials for a website
focusing specifically on race and the racial divide, which we define as
the gap between racial groups in terms of social outcomes such as
wealth, property, income health or education. We have a partial list of
major themes to address which include history, social and cultural
issues, business/employment, and immigration. Faculty from different
disciplines will pull together some of their teaching materials to cover
these topics. Our focus is Southeast Michigan, but many of the issues we
have here will be common to those in other parts of the country. We aim
to provide materials that permit students to begin to imagine the
situation of people who have been subject to discrimination and unjust
institutional treatment.
The goal is to put these materials onto a website that will accompany a
student summit being held in October by New Detroit, a coalition of
Detroit leadership which focuses on race relations. Students can visit
the website for additional information after attending the summit, and
the website can offer an alternative way to convey the information for
students who can't attend the summit.
One of our major challenges is how to make this appealing and engaging
for students. Powerpoint slides are probably not be the zippiest way to
catch the attention of a group of 18-25 year-old students! We want to
find resources that will offer a more interactive experience, so we are
looking for best practices out there. Has anyone done anything like
this, or does anyone know of websites that offer broad overviews of
diversity topics? While we are focusing mostly on race, ideas from
resources with different focus groups can also help. I'd appreciate any
advice you can offer. Please contact me off-list at
jebeatty@umd.umich.edu, and I will post the ideas I receive back to the
list.
Thanks for your ideas.
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Joy E. Beatty
Assistant Professor
Department of Management Studies
School of Management
University of Michigan - Dearborn
313-583-6524
jebeatty@umd.umich.edu