In the summer of 1990, the Affirmative Action Office of Binghamton University received funding from the New York State/ United University Professions Affirmative Action Committee to establish a lending library of videotapes related to issues of diversity. In August 1999 the collection was transferred to the Multicultural Resource Center and has grown steadily since that time, with the office housing more than 166 videocassettes and books.
To reserve a video tape, come to the the MRC office at University Union West room 207, and we will be glad to help. If you are a first time borrower, you will need to fill out a short form before you may borrow. The web version is provided below as a convenience.
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Amazing Grace : The Lives of Children and the Concscience of a nation
Author: Jonathan Kozol
Description: "Kozol reminds us that, with each casualty, part of the beauty of the world is extinguished, because these are children of intelligence and humor, of poetic insight and luminour faith. Amazing Grace is written in a gentle and measured tone, but you will wonder at the end, with Kozol, why the God of love does not return to earth with his avenging sword in hand."
-Barbara Ehrenreich |
Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate & Professional Differences
Author: Philippe Rosinski
Description: "Coaching Across Cultures is an outstanding book that explains how to develop the new breed of leadership necessary to acheive sustainable high performance in today's global and multicultural environement. This visionary peice of work is both profound and practical. It will show you how to leverage human potential and its rich cultural diversity, to the benefit of employees, cutstomers, shareholders and society at large."
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Cross- Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters with cultural Differences
Author: Craig Stori
Description: How much culture lurks in common conversation? According to Craig Stori, so much that many of our most common, seemingly innocent exchanges- in social settings, on the job, in the world of business- are cultural minefields waiting to explode. These explosions undermine communication, threaten important relationships, and cost a great deal of time and money; away from work, thewy strain, even endanger, personal relations...
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Developing Intercultural Awareness: A Cross Training Handbook Second Edition
Author: L. Robert Kohls and John M. Knight
Description: The body of the book, presented in twenty-one "Resource" sections, is still given over to the training materials themselves, including simulation games, case studies, and ice breaking, values, communication and other exercises. Here again the authors have added newer, more pertinent materials and discarded those that are past their time. Appendices, including a bibliography and guides to simulation games, films and videos, have also been expanded and updated... |
Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society
Author: James A. Banks
Description: Most of the literature on citizenship education is silent on questions related to race, ethnicity, and social-class stratification. With Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society, author James A. Banks fills that gap. The thousands of immigrants that enter the United States each year, the increasing number of students who speak a first language other than English and the widening gap between the rich and the poor intensify the challenge of educating students for citizenship in a democratic society. In the eleven essays that make up this book, written over a 13-year period, Professor Banks describes how schools can both educate students to participate effectively in a society that reflects ethnic and cultural diversity and also promote national unity and public good. |
Exploring Culture: Excercises, Stories & Synthetic Cultures
Author: Gert Jan Hofstede, Paul B. Pedersen, Geert Hofstede
Description: Part light, part serious, but always thought-provoking, this book approaches training through the three-part process of building awareness, knowledge, and skills. It leads the reader through the first two components with more than 75 activities, dialogues, stories and incidents. The Sythetic Culture Laboratory and two full simulationsfulfill the skill-building component. Exploring Culture is suitable for students, trainers, coaches and educators. It can be used for individual study or as a text, and it serves as an excellent partner to Geert Hofstede's popular Cultures and Organizations.
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Health Matters: A Pocket Guide for working with Diverse Cultures and Underserved Populations
Author: Michele Yehieli, Dr. P.H and Mark A Grey, Ph. D
Description: Health Matters, based on the highly successful handbook from Iowa that has helped scores throughout the nation and abroad, shows how providers- and their institutions- can acheive a level of cultural competence essential for their work. Included in this comprehensive guide are summaries of the experience of 14 cultural groups; strategies for developing culturally appropriate care; and critical information on the cultural patterns, health practices and underlying belief systems of underserved groups. Health Matters is an essential guide for anyone delivering health care in our rapidly changing communities.
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Into Africa: Incultural Insights
Author: Yale Richmond and Phyllis Gestrin
Description: "Traditional African Societies were sophisticatedorganisms, finely tuned to exigencies of climate and environment in a harsh continent. In their communal realtionships and elaborate lines of mutal responsibility, with their generic love of children and respect for the aged, they cultivated a respect for human values and human worth far in advance of materialistic West
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Islam & Muslims: A Guide to Diverse Experience in a Modern World
Author: Mark Sedgwick
Description: The need to understand Islam and Muslims has never been greater, both because of conflicts that dominate the news and because of the increasing presence of Muslims in western societies. there are hundreds of books that introduce the Western reader to Islam, and dozens of books that explore various Muslim societies (usually Arab ones). Islam & Muslims is the first to bring together both explaining Islam in theory and in practice across the diverse Muslim world. Readers learn not just what Islam says about everything from the nature of God to marriage to prayer to politics, but also how individual Muslims (traditional or modern, devout or barely observant) apply teachings in everyday life. |
Race and Culture in the Classrooms:Teaching an dLearning through Multural
Author: Mary Dilg Foreword bye James A. Banks
Description: In Race and Culture in the Classroom, high school teacher Mary Dilgclosely observes what happens when one teacher attempts to work with issues of race and culture in a diverse classroom. Drawing on actual dynamics in an urban high school, Dilg, a white English teacher, describes and analyzes the significant challenges and joys at the heart of multicultural education with adolescents. Unafraid to address sensitives issues, Dilg shows how educators can treat questions of race and culture in the courses they teach. She offers a framework for thinking about the processes, the dilemmas and the benefits of multicultural education, while also pointing out that a multicultural approach to education is infinitely more complex than comonly acknowledged. |
Learning to Think Korean: A Guide to Living & Working in Korea
Author: L. Robert Kohls
Description: Kohls shares a feast of Korean culture:
a ricebowl of history and tradition complemented by an array of
spicy tidbits that capture the reader's attention like a mouthful
of kimchi. Based on personal experience, he provides critical incidents
that explores Korean values- traditional values, value changes over
the past forty years and projected values for the early decades
of the twenty-first century. He is equally insightful when it comes
to discussing the cultural patterns and practices of the workplace.
He takes on management style, personnel issues, networking and "pull",
negotiating style, persistence, key Korean business relationships
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The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities
Author: Sonia Nieto
Description: In The Light in Their Eyes, Sonia Nieto makes student learning the primary objective of multiculrual education. Going beyond "curricular integration." Nieto draws on a host of research in learning styles, multiple intelligences, and us beyond individual learners to discuss the social context of learning, the history and manifestations of education equity, the influences of culture of learning, and critical pedagogy. Centering on multicultrual education as a tranformative process, the text includes many relflections of teachers who have undergone this process and whose experiences will be inavluable to other teachers. |
Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds
Author: David C. Pollock and Ruth E. Van Reken
Description: Widely acclaimed as the first and only book to fully examine the legacy of transition and change shared by those who have grown up globally, Third Culture Kids speaks to the challenges and rewards of a multicultural childhood: the joy of discovery and heartbreaking loss, its effect on maturing and personal identity, and the difficulty in making the transition home. Pollock and Van Reken give voice to children everywhere who have grown up living abroad- third cultures kids (TCKs). Through interviews, poetry and personal writings, the authors validate past experiences of TCKs, placing into clear context their shared heritage and profiling typical characteristics and emotions- from practical social skills and identity development to restlessness and delayed adolescence. For parents, educators, and the thousands of adult TCKs around the world, Third Culture Kids brings to life the essence of the cultural emotional, physical, and geographical experiences of the nomadic life of a TCK. |
Turning Bricks into Jade: Critical Incidents for Mutual Understanding among Chinese and Americans
Author: Mary Margarent Wang, Richard W. brilin, Wei zhong Wang, David Williams, and Julie Haiyan Chao.
Description: The Chinese are fond of using four-character phrases known as cheng yu to improve their style. The Chinese characters on the cover spell out one such idiom: pao zhuan yin yu. Translated literally, the expression means "throw bricks attracts jade." The authors of Turning Bricks into Jade, another rendering of pao zhuan yin yu, like to think of each critical incident as a brick, which, when combined with other similar bricks, good sense and effort, can be used to construct relationships more valuable even than jade. Each of these forty-one validated incidents presents a dilemma or misunderstanding brought about by cultural differences in expectations and behavior. Each incident is followed by a discussion of the possible solutions, which are concise cross-cultural lessons in themselves. A section on concepts useful in understanding Chinese-American interactions enhances the discussions of the solutions. Turning Bricks into Jade can be used in almost any setting: business training sessions, the classroom, predeparture orientation, or your living room. These materials are the result of a highly collaborative effort on the part of authors, who represent a wide range of diverse socialization and experience in Chinese and American cultures. Two of the five were born and raised in China; Dr. Brislin is a widely published and respected expert in the field of cross-cultural training with over thirty years of experience. All but Julie Haiyan Chao, who joined the group late in the project, began their work at the East-West Center at the University of Hawai'i |
Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Modern Times- Fourth Edition
Author: Margaret K Nydell
Description: Diplomats, scholars, business people, travelers and all those who wish to understand the complex events playing out on the world stage have relied on Margaret Nydell's ground-breaking work. Understanding Arabs has become an essential guide to comprehending an immensely varied and often-misunderstood culture. This much-awaited fourth edition brings contemporary Arab culture into sharp focus. Concise and objective, Understanding Arbs covers beliefs and values; religion and society; the role of family, friends and strangers; the dynaic between men and women and social norms and communication styles- all with an eye toward the diversity that this rich culture represents. |
We can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools
Author: Gary R. Howard Foreword by Sonia Nieto
Description: With lively stores and compelling analysis, Gary Howard engages his readers on a journey of personal and professional transformation. From his 25 years of experience as a multicultural educations, he looks deeply into the mirror of his own racial identity to discover what it means to be a culturally competent White teacher in racially diverse schools. Inspired by his extensive travel and collaboration with students and colleagues from many different cultures, We Can't Teach What We Don't Know offers a healing vision for the furture of education in pluralistic nations. |
With Respect to the Japanese: A Guide for Americans
Author: John C. Condon
Description: The principles are simple: see yourself
as others see you; look at others as they look at themselves. With
this as a starting point, Condon discusses the salient features
of Japanese values and behaviors as they affect communication, social
and business relations and management styles. He contrasts that
with the values and characteristics of Americans and makes concrete
recommendations on how to deal with the Japanese during face-to-face
encounters. He addresses himself to the thousands of Americans who
really want to understand the dynamics of relationships between
Japanese and Americans but who also want to be as effective as possible
in acheiving whatever goals they have for their business and personal
encounters with the Japanese.
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