Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post-Civil Rights America

by Jiannbin Lee Shiao

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082233447X
• ISBN13: 9780822334477
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.9"