Psychology - Counseling; Race & Term Paper

Diversity and its Discontents" (Arturo Madrid)

Madrid provides, perhaps, the most intriguing look into the pessimistic parliamentary assemblies of conceived perceptions focusing on the diversifying components of diversity itself. Sneaking in subtle notations about the idiocy behind many of the prominent malcontents that we have recognized through history in terms of segregation and racial provocation, "Diversity and its Discontents" prompts for more of a diverted attention to the perceptions that develop through persisting diversity than the fundamental signifying contributions that outline the progression of diversity. Madrid's concepts do not exemplify the persona of atonement that inflicts the prose of our other authors, but does come through as a genuine consort of the experiences in ethnical divide.

Day in the Life of Two Americas" (Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown)

Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown perfect the proportionate degrees of reprimanded division within the United States as an entire collective nation. Sprouting from intricate and poignant issues of separation, along with thorough descriptions of the prominence of one ethnic over another, we are given a direct connection between social statuses among each race and the prioritization that allows their commencing progressions. Though, at the same time, our authors provide distinct insight into the factors that simultaneously partake in the decline of other aspects of the same division.

Who is Black? One Nations's Definition" (F. James Davis)

Davis's approach to the distinctions of separation somewhat mimic the concepts of division in Beverly Daniel Tatum's book; "Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" In the same manner of distinguishing as through the eyes of a child, Davis depicts the initial innocence of partition of one ethnic from another.Cleverly speaking in terms of what appears to be personal experience, our author prolongs the ideas of why one reaches the point where distinguishing separating factors of one person to another.

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Thandenka. 1999. Afro Centric News Network. Retrieved from the World Wide Web; December 10th, 2007:

http://www.afrocentricnews.com/html/cost_of_whiteness.html

Jelita McCLeod, Special to The Washington Post Monday, July 7, 2003; Page C10;

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A10683-2003Jul4&notFound=true

Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" Beverly Daniel Tatum. 2002. Econo-Clad Books, Div. Online source: http://books.google.com/books?id=iRof9vDClvQC&dq=%22why+are+all+the+black+kids+sitting+together+in+the+cafeteria%22+beverly+daniel+tatum&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=tuBkQVIc0h&sig=iF7TqLVYYjgiC17KA03OwhG -- Eo

Arturo Madrid - "Diversity and its Discontents" - Amazon.com

Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown, "A Day in the Life of Two Americas." Personally read this last year. Source: City-Library.

F. James Davis. "Who is Black? One Nations's Definition" Afro Centric News Network. http://www.afrocentricnews.com/html/who_is_black.html.....