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Talking About Race
Katherine Walsh
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Description for Talking About Race
Paperback. How should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? Communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. This work looks at this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it. Series: Studies in Communication, Media & Public Opinion. Num Pages: 318 pages, 21 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
It is a perennial question: how should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? More than 400 communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. In "Talking about Race", Katherine Cramer Walsh takes an eye-opening look at this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it. With extensive observations of community dialogues, interviews with the discussants, and sophisticated analysis of national data, Walsh shows that while meeting organizers usually aim to establish common ... Read more
It is a perennial question: how should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? More than 400 communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. In "Talking about Race", Katherine Cramer Walsh takes an eye-opening look at this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it. With extensive observations of community dialogues, interviews with the discussants, and sophisticated analysis of national data, Walsh shows that while meeting organizers usually aim to establish common ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Communication, Media & Public Opinion
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226869070
SKU
V9780226869070
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About Katherine Walsh
Katherine Cramer Walsh is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the author of Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Talking About Race
"An important and original work, Talking about Race provides a unique and critical contribution to research on deliberation. It is a major empirical study of inter-personal communication and is of great importance not only to specialists in political deliberation but also to the wider community of scholars interested in political communication." - Diana Owen, Georgetown University"