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The Art of Diversity

Culture in America is likely to be spelled these days with a hyphen. Watch it on TV. There’s Cuban-American singing star Gloria Estefan in a music video on MTV Latino. See it at the cinema. The film version of The Joy Luck Club, based on the popular novel by Chinese-American author Amy Tan, could be […]

Ignoring Diversity, Runways Fade to White

By Guy Trebay
IN the days of blithe racial assumptions, flesh crayons were the color of white people. “Invisible” makeup and nude pantyhose were colored in the hues of Caucasian skin. The decision by manufacturers to ignore whole segments of humanity went unchallenged for decades before the civil rights movement came along and nonwhite consumers started […]

Breaking Through: How Minorities can Break - or Bend - Corporate Career Barriers

Who’s that in the executive suite? It’s probably (still) a white man. Ninety-five percent of all executive-level positions in the U.S. are filled by non-female, non-minority individuals, according to David Thomas and John Gabarro, Harvard professors and authors of Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America - a study about the other […]

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