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GLOSSARY of pertinent terminology
Recommendations and Reviews of Books and Publications that have been deemed particularly well written or useful in today's complex environment.
A listing of books, articles, and other publications that contribute to knowledge and understanding in the fields of diversity, vitality, emancipation, multicultural equity, and social justice in the postmodern organization. Although all books are of particular worth, those followed by the bookshelf icon are deemed to be the most accessible to the non-academic, and the most foundational to anyone's diversity praxis education. Click on icons with prominent blue borders for a review of the book. Look for reviews of those books with icons in upcoming editions of the journal Diversity Praxis.
DIVERSITY THEORY
Adkins, Gary Y.: Diversity Beyond The Numbers: Business Vitality, Ethics & Identity in the 21st Century
Long Beach: GDI Press, 2003
Cox, Taylor: Cultural Diversity in Organizations: Theory, Research, & Practice
San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler, 1993.
Loden, Marilyn and Judy Rosener: Workforce America! Managing Employee Diversity as a Vital Resource
Burr Ridge: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1991
Thomas, Roosevelt: Beyond Race and Gender
New York: American Management Association, 1991.
Trickett, Edison, Rodrick J. Watts, and Dina Birman, editors: Human Diversity: Perspectives and People in Context
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994
MULTICULTURALISM / DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
Bekemans, Leonce & R. Picht eds.: European Societies Between Diversity and Convergence, Vol. II
Brussels: European InterUniversity Press, 1996
Bruehl, Elisabeth: The Anatomy of Prejudices
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Funakawa, Atsushi: Transcultural
Management A New Approach for Global Organizations
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997.
Gardner, Howard: Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice
New York: Basic Books, 1993.
Goldberg, David: Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader
Oxford: Blackwell Press, 1994.
Harris, Philip and R. Moran: Managing Cultural Differences
Houston: Gulf Publishing Co., 1996.
Menocal, Maria Rosa: The Ornament of the World; How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 2002.
Naipaul, V. S.: The Writer and the World, Essays
New York: Alpred A. Knopf, 2002.
Purnell, Larry D. and Betty J. Paulanka: Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach
Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, 1998.
Spector, Rachel, E.: Cultural Diversity in Health & Illness
Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall Health, 2000.
Takaki, Ronald: A Different Mirror: A History of Multicutural America
Boston: Little, Brown, 1993
Taylor, Charles: Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Thiederman, Sondra: Bridging Cultural Barriers for Corporate Success; How to Manage the Multicultural Work Force
New York: Lexington Books, 1991
Trompenaars, Fons and Charles Hampton-Turner: Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998
Tully, James, ed.: Philosophy in An Age of Pluralism; The Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question,
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Healthy People 2000 and 2010; National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives; Full Report with Commentary
Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1992.
Wikan, Unni: Generous Betrayal: Politics of Culture in the New Europe
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002.
COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
Capra, Fritjof: The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
New York: Anchor Books, 1996.
Grimes, A.J.: Critical Theory and Organizational Sciences: A Primer
Journal of Organizational Change Management, 1992 v5,#1,p26
Handy, Charles: The Age of Unreason
Cambridge, Harvard Business School Press, 1989
Kauffman, Stuart A.: At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995
Kuhn, Thomas S.: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962
Lewin, Roger: Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos
New York: Macmillan, 1992
Lewin, Roger and Birute Regine: Weaving Complexity and Business: Engaging the Soul at Work
New York: Texere, 2000, 2001.
Maruyama, Magorah: The second cybernetics.
American Scientist, 1 Jun 63, 164 - 179
Pines, David, editor: Emerging Syntheses in Science
Addison-Wesley, 1988
Proceedings on the first major conference at the Santa Fe Institute:
The Institute's founding workshops in the fall of 1984
Stacey, Ralph D.: Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation
London: Routledge, 2001.
Stacey, Ralph : Complexity and Creativity in Organizations
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1996.
Stacey, Ralph : Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1992.
Stacey, Ralph: Unpublished Working Papers
Hertford Campus, The Business School: UK, 1998 - 2000.
Vicenzi, Richard and Gary Y. Adkins: Assessing Organizational Vitality,
Technology Forecasting and Social Change (Spring, 2000), 3-7.
Waldrop, M. Mitchell: Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992
Wheatley, Margaret J.: Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1992.
CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY
Boje, David, Robert Gephart Jr., and Tojo J. Thatchenkery: Post Modern Management and Organization Theory
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing, 1996.
Bourdieu, Pierre: Distinction, A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste,
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.
de Zengotita, Thomas: "Common Ground: Finding Our Way Back to the Enlightenment"
Harper's, Vol. 306, No. 1832, January 2003, 35-44.
Fevre, R. W.: The Demoralization of Western Culture: Social Theory and the Dilemmas of Modern
Living
London: Continuum, 2000.
Foucault, Michel: Fearless Speech,
Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2001.
Habermas, Jurgen: The Future of Human Nature
Polity Press, 2003
Habermas, Jurgen: The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.
Habermas, Jurgen: A Critical Reader,
Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
Habermas, Jurgen, Ciarin Cronin and Pablo De Grieff, editors: The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1998
Habermas, Jurgen: Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1998
Habermas, Jurgen: Communicative Action, Vols I & II
Boston: Beacon Press, 1981
Habermas, Jurgen: Legitimation Crisis
Boston: Beacon Press, 1973
Lewandowski, Joseph D.: Interpreting Culture; Rethinking Method and Truth in Social Theory,
Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
Matsuda, Mari J., Charles R. Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, Kimberle W. Crenshaw, eds.: Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment
Boulder: Westview press, 1993.
Rabinow, Paul, editor: Foucault, Michel; The Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984; Vol I – III
New York: The New Press, 1994.
Ruiz, Teofilo F., PhD: Medieval Europe: Crisis and Renewal Parts I & II
(CUNY) Lecture Series available through The Teaching Company, 1997
Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth: The Anatomy of Prejudices
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Young, Iris Marion: Justice and the Politics of Difference
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
ETHICAL PLURALISM
Bennett, Jane: The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings and Ethics
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Bohman, James: Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996
Bohman, James and William Rehg, editors: Pluralism and the Pragmatic Turn: The Transformation of Political Theory
Cambridge MA: MOT Press, 2001
Covey, Stephen R. : Principle Centered Leadership,
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990
Ferguson, Russell and Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Cornel West, editors: Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1990
Gray, John: Two Faces of Liberalism,
New York: The New Press, 2000.
Kane, Robert H.: The Quest for Meaning: Values, Ethics, and the Modern Experience Parts I & II
(University of Texas), Lecture Series available through The Teaching Company, 1999.
Noel, Lise: Intolerance: A General Survey
Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1994
Walzer, Michael: On Toleration
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
ETHNICITY
Black, Jeremy: Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past
New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1997.
Chirot, Daniel and Martin E. P. Seligman, eds.: EthnoPolitical Warfare: Causes, Consequences and Possible Solutions,
Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2001.
Chow, Rey: The Protestant EthNic and the Spirit of
Capitalism
New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Davila, Arlene: Latinos Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People
Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2001.
Epstein, Steven A.: Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity & Human Bondage in Italy
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Hourani, Albert: A History of the Arab Peoples
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Irwin, Robert: Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents
New York: The Overlook Press, 2006.
Mann, Charles C.: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Richter, Daniel K.: Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
Cambridge, London: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Rodriquez, Richard: Brown: The Last Discovery of America
New York: Viking Press, 2002.
Said, Edward: Orientalism
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.
GENDER
Brown, Wendy: Politics Out of History
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Gilmore, David D: Misogyny: The Male Malady
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Goldberger, Nancy, Jill Tarule, Blythe Clinchy and Mary Belenky, eds.: Knowledge, Difference and Power: Essays Inspired by Women's Ways of Knowing
New York: BasicBooks, 1996.
Kimmel, Michael: Manhood in America: A Cultural History
New York: The Free Press, 1996.
Margolis, Jane and Allan Fisher: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing
Cambridge, MIT Press, 2002.
Noble, David F.: A World Without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Schiebinger, Londa: Nature's Body
Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.
GLOBALIZATION
Benhabib, Seyla: The Claims of Culture: Equality and Culture in the Global Era
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri: Empire
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Sassen, Saskia: Globalization and it Discontents: Essays on the Mobility of People and Money
New York: The New Press, 1998.
Wilbur, Ken: No Boundary
Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2000.
Zachary, G. Pascal: The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge: Picking Globalism’s Winners and Losers
New York: PublicAffairs, 2000.
IDENTITY THEORY
Castells, Manuel: The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Volume II,
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 1997
Gergen, Kenneth, J.: The Saturated Self, Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life
New York: Basic Books, 1991.
Giddens, Anthony: Modernity and Self-Identity, Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Gutmann, Amy: Identity in Democracy
Princeton University Press, 2003.
Lifton, Robert Jay: The Protean Self, Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation
New York: Basic Books, 1993.
Maalouf, Amin: In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996 (translation 2000).
Ornstein, Robert: The Roots of the Self, Unraveling the Mystery of Who We Are,
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
Rajchman, John: The Identity in Question
New York: Routledge, 1995.
Schrag, Calvin O.: The Self After Postmodernity
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997
Stoliz, P.: Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities
New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1997.
Taylor, Charles: Sources of the Self; The Making of the Modern Identity,
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Woodward, Kathryn, ed.: Identity and Difference: Culture, Media and Identities
London: SAGE Publications, The Open University, 1997.
ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS
Burns, T. and Stalker, G. M.: The Management of Innovation
London: Tavistock, 1961
 Elsdon, Ron: Affiliation in the Workplace: Value Creation in the New Organization
Westport CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003.
Handy, Charles: The Age of Paradox
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1994.
Jermier, John M., David Knights and Walter R. Nord, eds.: Resistance and Power in Organizations
London: Routledge, 1994.
Kilmann, Ralph H.: Quantum Organizations: A New Paradigm for Achieving Organizational Success and Personal Meaning
Palo Alto: Davies-Black Publishing 2001.
Knights, David and Hugh Willmott: Management Lives: Power and Identity in Work Organizations
London: SAGE Publications, 1999.
Leonard-Barton, Dorothy: Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.
Mintzberg, Henry: Power In and Around Organizations
Englewood NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1983.
Senge, Peter: The Fifth Discipline
New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Vicenzi, Richard and Gary Y. Adkins: Assessing Organizational Vitality,
Technology Forecasting and Social Change (Spring, 2000), 3-7.
RACE
Berlin, Ira: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
Brown, Elaine: The Condemnation of Little B
Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
Cose, Ellis: The Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America
New York: Washington Square Books, 2002.
Crenshaw, Kimberle, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, Kendall Thomas, eds.: Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement
New York: The New Press, 1995
Delgado, Richard: The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race
New York: New York University Press, 1995.
Essed, Philomena: Everyday Racism: Reports from Women of Two Cultures
Amsterdam: Hunter House, 1990.
Foner, Eric: Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Fredrickson, George M.: Racism: A Short History
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Malcomson, Scott L.: One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.
Matsuda, Mari J., Charles R. Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, Kimberle W. Crenshaw, eds.: Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment
Boulder: Westview press, 1993.
West, Cornel: Race Matters,
Boston: Vintage Press, 1994.
REFERENCE
Appiah, Kwame Anthony and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Dictionary of Global Culture
New York: Knopf, 1997.
RELIGION
Armstrong, Karen: The Battle for God
New York: Ballentine Books, 2000.
Armstrong, Karen: The Great Transformation: The Beginning of our Religious Traditions
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Baum, Gregory: Nationalism, Religion and Ethics
Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2001.
Clark, Victoria: Why Angels Fall: A Journey Through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Jordan, Mark D: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Habermas, Jurgen: Religion and Rationality
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002
Menocal, Maria Rosa: The Ornament of the World; How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 2002.
Perez, Joseph: The Spanish Inquisition
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005
Zagorin, Perez: How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came To the West
Princeton: Princeton Universtiy Press, 2003
SEXUALITY
Crompton, Louis: Homosexuality in Civilization
Cambridge MA: Belknap Press, 2003.
Fone, Byrne: Homophobia - A History
New York: Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company, 2000.
Groneman, Carol: Nymphomania: A History
New York: W,W, Norton, 2000.
Jordan, Mark D: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Kantor, Martin: Homophobia: Description, Development, and Dynamics of Gay Bashing
Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1998.
LeVay, Simon: The Sexual Brain:
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.
McNaught, Brian: Gay Issues in the Workplace
New York: St. Martins Press, 1993.
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