9/21 Class (Topic 2): Inequality, Diversity, Identity and Power

Inequality, Diversity, Identity and Power

Leading: Bette Shifman, Kathleen Ludewig
Reading: Bette, Kathleen, Greg, Rachel, Mai, Garin, Eileen

If you are reading in this topic, you are responsible for reading throroughly enough in the material to carry on discussion about it, both here and in class. Please post your responses, comments, questions, observations, misgivings, concerns, etc. regarding the readings as a comment to this post by Wednesday (9/19) evening.

Required Readings
Stone, Deborah. Policy Paradox and Political Reason. Harper Collins Publisher. 1996. (pp. 30-48)

Delpit, Lisa. “The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children,” Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race and Gender in United States Schools, Ed. Lois Weis and Michelle Fine. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.

Senyak, Josh. “Thinking About Community Technology and the Digital Divide: Why Computer Access Is an Important Topic.” (archived at http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick/cic/readings/SenyakFongDigDiv.htm)

Hart, Stuart and Sanjay Sharma. “Engaging fringe stakeholders for competitive imagination,” Academy of Management Executive, 18:1, p. 7-18, 2004

Recommended
Besser, Howard. “The Next Digital Divides” (archived at http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick/cic/readings/BesserDigDiv.htm)

Minow, Martha. Not Only for Myself: Identity Politics and the Law. The New Press, 1997. (pp. 9-58)