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Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post-Civil...
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by Jiannbin Lee Shiao and Jiannbin Lee Shiao
Sales Rank : 1170157
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Paperback: 295 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press October 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 082233447X
ISBN-13: 978-0822334477
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Product Review
"[A]dmirable. . . ."
--Katherine Boothroyd, Altar Magazine
"Shiao's timely and profound study brings a unique voice to the intersections of diversity, philanthropy, and politics."
--Anthony Edwards, MultiCultural Review
"Using in-depth case studies. . ., the volume raises a number of important, even intriguing, questions. . . . There is a lot of good information in the book. Sholars from the fields of sociology, organizational change, intergroup relations or philanthropy will enjoy digesting and debating this sinewy read."
--Lynn Huntley, Foundation News & Commentary
Product Description
“Diversity” has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity, Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in establishing diversity as a goal throughout American society in the post–civil rights era. By creating and institutionalizing diversity policies, these private organizations have quietly transformed the practice of affirmative action. Shiao describes how, from the 1960s through the 1990s, philanthropies responded to immigration, the recognition of nonblack minority groups, and the conservative backlash against affirmative action. He shows that these pressures not only shifted discourse and practice within philanthropy away from a binary black-white conception of race but also dovetailed with a change in its mission from supporting “good causes” to “identifying talent.”
Based on three years of research on the racial and ethnic priorities of the San Francisco Foundation and the Cleveland Foundation, Shiao demonstrates the geographically uneven impact of the national transition to diversification. The demographics of the regions served by the foundations in San Francisco and Cleveland are quite different, and paradoxically, the foundation in Cleveland—which serves an area with substantially fewer immigrants—has had greater institutional opportunities for implementing diversity policies. Shiao connects these regional histories with the national philanthropic field by underscoring the prominent role of the Ford Foundation, the third largest private foundation in the country, in shaping diversity policies. Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity reveals philanthropic diversity policy as a lens through which to focus on U.S. race relations and the role of the private sector in racial politics.
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