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November 20, 2007
Katherine Cramer Walsh, PhD'00
Talking About Race: Community Dialogues and the Politics of Difference, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
The book: 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. This book 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.
The author: Katherine Cramer Walsh works on deliberative democracy, public opinion, political communication and civic engagement. She also is the author of "Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life" and co-author of "Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Have Undermined Citizenship and What We Can Do About It."
Posted by tobiaslw at November 20, 2007 11:54 AM