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Thank you for your investment in the university, in our country,
and in me
Professor john a. powell Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Executive
Directorand The Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and
InclusionUniversity of California, Berkeley
The Challenges & Opportunities of Diversities
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Research Clusters
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Research
Government
Communications
Translation to change frame Sharing Community input
Non-university based research
UCB & system Wide
Relationships
Direct service and
organizing Institutions
The Network
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Diversity in the United StatesAs a fact, the United States is
richly diverse place. 2010 U.S. Census estimates
that of the approximately 310 million Americans, there are:– 230 million Whites– 40 million Latino/as– 35 million Black or African
American– 16 million Asian Americans– 4 million Native American– 3 million Arab Americans
U.S. Census Bureau, 2010
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2008 population estimates:– 54 million people have a disability– By age: • 5 percent of children 5 to 17 have
disabilities• 10 percent of people 18 to 64
have disabilities• 38 percent of adults 65 and older
have disabilities
2008 American Community Survey, http://factfinder.census.gov
Diversity in the United States
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Diversity in the United States
http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf
Percent and number of adults who identify as LGBTQ
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Challenges & Opportunities of Diversity
• “One of the most important challenges facing modern societies, and at the same time one of our most significant opportunities, is the increase in ethnic and social heterogeneity in virtually all advanced countries”
• “The central challenge for modern, diversifying societies is to create a new, broader sense of ‘we’.”
Putnam, R. “E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century—The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture.” Nordic Political Science Association, 30.2 (2007): 1.
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Limitations of Diversity
• What work does diversity do?
• What are its limitations in aiming for fairness, inclusion, and equity
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Social Cleavages in Our Society
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Putnam’s Vision of Diversity
To develop “bridging social capital” networks” that are both “outward looking and accompany people across diverse social cleavages”
Source: Putnam, Robert D., 2000, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.
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Our Vision of Diversity
Diversity Where Social
Cleavages Disappear
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Implicit Bias / Mind Science
Structures/Institutional
Arrangements
Power
Our Approach
Some people ride the “Up” escalator to reach opportunity
Others have to run up the stairs to get to opportunity
The Context of Opportunity Matters
Targeted UniversalismStructural Inequity produces consistently different outcomes for different communities.
Targeted Universalism responds with universal goals and targeted solutions
VS.
Targeted Universalism Structural Inequity
©2012 Connie Cagampang Heller
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For more information, visit: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/806639