Document Type
Issue Area One
Abstract
Until nearly a year ago I spent the greater portion of my adult life attempting to formulate strategies to encourage European Americans to join in the development of ways to help communities learn to value diversity. It has been my experience that most African Americans have spent tremendous amounts of psychic and physical energy, thoughts, time, and activities in very much this same way. This has been true because the acceptance of diversity is advantageous to African Americans who are perceived as the victims, the undeserving, or the less than human, and have little, if anything at all, to risk. However, African Americans and other people of color lack the power to develop programs in which European Americans will participate and which will, thus, effect the changes necessary for true diversity.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
7
Issue
1
First Page
15
Last Page
15
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1997 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Furgerson, Betty Jean
(1997)
"Diversity: From the Sidelines,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 7:
No.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol7/iss1/7
