Unwrapping Racism: Dealing with Differences (Series in Social Equality and Justice)

"A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step." Lao Tzu

"Unwrapping Racism: Dealing with Differences" will connect the reader with recent social movements such as gun safety, Black Lives Matter, and college reform movements. The Early social movements would portray racial discrimination within the Women's Suffrage Movement and the Eugenics/Sterilization Movement. The Civil Right Movement of 1950s/1960s highlights Rosa Parks, Dr. M. L. King, Jr. and Congressman John Lewis.

This book will present key issues, such as cultural privilege and its prevalence. The reader will be lifted up from xenophobia, colonialism and slavery while creatively facing individual responses to those issues today. All those approaches move into our societal goals of assimilation, cultural pluralism and the "melting pot" concept.

This volume will make the perfect complement to Dr. Grose previous book "Dealing with differences". Every reader can do something, sometime, somewhere to effectively deal with differences. As the book confronts race, it challenges the reader to grapple with action-oriented exercises, questions, and projects relevant to key paragraphs on every page. At the end of the book, the readers will be empowered to tell their own stories about their experiences with race within each chapter.

Dr. Grose is an activist educator and administrator who has learned and taught in an historic black college, public and private universities, served on an American Indian reservation, in a refugee community, as a community organizer, and with Volunteers In Service to America. He has intentionally lived in communities of color for part of his career, including while working as a Fulbright Scholar in Central America. His degrees in sociology and ethics, communication and other fields show his passion for justice, diversity, nonviolence, and mutually enriching changes.