diversity issues in the workplace and profession

1. diversity issues in the workplace and profession

2. What does it mean?

5. Liberty and Justice For All

6. Freedom & Fairness Philosophy Law Humanities • How can we think about Freedom? • Positive Liberty – Freedom to • Negative Liberty – Freedom from • How can we think about Fairness? • Privilege – invisible backpack

7. Freedom • From the ideas of Positive and Negative Liberty follow the ideas of Positive and Negative Rights • Permit or Oblige Moral or Legal Action/Inaction • Sometimes these are in conflict

8. Freedom to/Freedom from • Medicine • Abortion • Assisted Suicide • Is there a general “obligation to care”? • Is there a “special obligation” for physicians? • Can we make connections between physicians and other professions? Allied Health professions?

9. ASHA on Diversity Ethics Principle I, Rule C “Individuals shall not discriminate in the delivery of professional services or the conduct of research and scholarly activities on the basis of race or ethnicity, gender, gender identity/gender expression, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability.” http://www.asha.org/docs/html/ET2010-00309.html

10. ASHA • Statement on Cultural Competence, 2004 • provide ethically appropriate services to all populations • while recognizing their own cultural/linguistic background • prohibiting discrimination • importance of lifelong learning to develop the knowledge • and skills required to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services • Available at http://www.asha.org/docs/pdf/ET2005-00174.pdf

11. Fairness • The “Invisible Backpack” • Peggy McIntosh (1989): As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something which puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage. • Cultural Capital • Privilege • Other-ness

12. Cultural Capital • Bourdieu (1986): Forms of knowledge, skills, education, and advantages that a person has, which give them a higher status in society. • Parents provide their children with cultural capital by transmitting the attitudes and knowledge needed to succeed in the current educational system

13. Privilege & Otherness • Advantage or entitlement given to or accrued by a social group • The group will often view their social, cultural, and economic experiences as a norm that everyone should experience or aspire to, rather than as an advantaged position that must be maintained at the expense of others • Other = people not in the group

14. What’s in the Backpack? 1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time. 2. I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me. 3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live. 4. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me. 5. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed. 6. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented. 7. When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is. 8. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race. 9. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege. 10. I can be pretty sure of having my voice heard in a group in which I am the only member of my race. http://sociology.wetpaint.com/page/Social+Privilege

15. Review • Liberty = Freedom • Positive & Negative • Obligations clarified by ASHA • Prohibit discrimination and build cultural competence • Justice = Fairness • Invisible Backpack • Cultural Capital • Privilege • Other-ness

16. But what about the Rainbows?

20. Matrix of Domination

21. Diversity of… Race Social Class Gender Sexuality Heritage

22. Group work – 30 minutes • “Two minute Summary” • Read a meaningful passage - EACH • In abstract – how does your material relate to the concepts we have talked about (ideas of freedom, fairness, privilege, otherness?) • In what practical ways does the information inform how you might practice? • For the “group” you are assigned • In a broader sense

23. Group 1 Lisa Delpit: The Silenced Dialogue/Educating Other People’s Children Race/Nationality

24. Group 2 Jean Anyon: Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work Social Class

25. Group 3 Anna Spradlin: The Price of Passing Ashley F: CLD Populations – GLBT Families in Schools

26. Group 4 David Corson: Language, Gender, and Education

27. Group 5 Dialect Diversity & Everything else we can think of

28. What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. Muriel Rukeyser, 1973