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DEI Exposed puts the spotlight on a Big Con: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
DEI gurus siphoned funds for education into social engineering programs. They suckered and swindled some of the smartest people in the U.S., cost universities dearly in terms of funds and reputation, and ruined the livelihoods of countless faculty members.
DEI has fueled antisemitism on college campuses and, ironically, robbed many students of fair treatment and freedom of speech-two things DEI advocates supposedly champion.
How did the hustlers pull it off?
This book documents the dubious credentials of DEI superstars, the use of cult conversion tactics on students, the cultivation of campus informants to instill fear and suspicion, and the lawsuits that reveal DEI's virulent racialism at a high cost to universities in bad publicity and legal damages.
DEI Exposed maps this corruption so that we can chart a course for a restoration of higher education for years to come.
Ridgley reveals the striking contradictions between DEI's stated aims and its practical effects.
- Ram Mudambi, Frank M. Speakman Professor of Strategy, Fox School of Business, Temple University
The DEI monster has continually sprouted new tentacles, and Ridgley has given us an account of how it came to be its lurid self.
- Bruce Gilley, author of The Case for Colonialism
With razor-sharp analysis, Ridgley dissects how higher education compromised itself, abandoning merit and intellectual vigor in favor of pseudoscience and ideological conformity.
- Nicholas Giordano, Professor of Political Science and host of The P.A.S. Report Podcast
Dr. Stanley K. Ridgley is Clinical Full Professor of Strategic Management at Drexel University. He holds a Doctorate and Master's in International Relations and Security from Duke University and an International MBA from Temple University. He is a Russian language linguist and former Military Intelligence Officer.
Choosing Liberty in California Policy Reform: Examining Suicide, Discrimination in Housing, Civil Asset Forfeiture, and Drug Legalization looks at four major public policy problems in California that can be done better. These policies have the potential to perpetuate systemic racism instead of creating a diverse and equitable California. Use this text in the classroom for political science classes to explore public policy issues in California.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND AMAZON BESTSELLER
America's most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's institutions.
In the 1960s, Mao launched China's Cultural Revolution. Cities grew overcrowded. Technocrats demanded progress from above. Anyone opposed was sent to be re-educated. China's revolution was bloody, fast, and a failure, but what if America started a revolution at the same time, based on the same bad ideas, and it's just been slower, calmer, and more effective?
In his powerful new book, Christopher F. Rufo uncovers the hidden history of left-wing intellectuals and activists who systematically took control of America's institutions to undermine them from within. America's Cultural Revolution finally answers so many of the questions normal Americans have, such as:
- Why is nearly every major corporation bending the knee to a far-left agenda?
- How did DEI suddenly become the department no institution can continue without?
- Why is race the main thing America's rich, white elite wants to talk about?
- When did the left adopt all this doublespeak, saying progress is a lack of progress, equality is not equality, speech is violence, and violence is speech?
- Has the goal of the left, for a century, actually been the destruction of every Western institution?
Readers may not know the names of Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Paulo Freire, and Derrick Bell, but they will recognize the ideas they spread. How their radical, destructive ideology slowly worked its way from prisons to academia to classrooms to your human resources department will come as a shock.
Failing to act soon, Rufo warns, could allow the radical left to achieve their ultimate objective: replacing constitutional equality with a race-based redistribution system overseen by bureaucratic 'diversity and inclusion' officials. Most Americans don't want this, but most Americans are no longer in control of our institutions. If the mainstream media's depiction of a failing dystopia in need of a fresh start never sounded right to you, this expose and call to arms is the book you've been looking for.
Project Midnight by Dr. Shelton Goode critically explores the coordinated efforts to undermine diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the corporate, educational, and governmental sectors. The book, written by an experienced DEI expert, delves deeply into the historical context of these programs and the contemporary backlash they face, driven by political and social forces that seek to reverse decades of progress toward racial and gender equality.
Dr. Goode begins by tracing DEI's origins from the Civil Rights Movement and the abolition of slavery. He highlights how DEI has evolved into a strategic initiative for organizations seeking to improve workplace diversity and inclusiveness. He emphasizes that DEI was not just about affirmative action but aimed at creating fair opportunities for historically marginalized groups. Despite the challenges, the resilience of DEI initiatives is a source of inspiration and hope.
The core of Project Midnight centers on the systematic, well-funded attacks by conservative and far-right groups to discredit DEI programs. These groups claim that DEI promotes reverse discrimination against white males and distracts companies from their core missions. Dr. Goode explains how these organizations, bolstered by recent legal decisions such as the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action, have shifted their focus to dismantling corporate DEI initiatives. They target areas such as talent management programs, employee resource groups, supplier diversity, and DEI training efforts, using legal challenges and public misinformation campaigns to achieve their goals.
One of the book's strengths is its use of real-life case studies. Dr. Goode provides detailed accounts of how organizations like Google, Facebook, and Tractor Supply have faced backlash after implementing DEI initiatives. He also examines the broader sociopolitical implications of this anti-DEI movement, tracing its roots to broader movements against social justice and racial equality.
Dr. Goode argues that these attacks are not just isolated events but part of a larger strategy to reverse the progress made in DEI efforts, especially after the 2020 racial justice protests following George Floyd's death. He draws attention to the legal, social, and political strategies used to dismantle programs designed to address inequality and highlights the significant impact on marginalized communities, corporate performance, and the country's overall social fabric.
The book is a call to action for business leaders, DEI professionals, and advocates for social justice. Dr. Goode provides practical strategies for sustaining DEI efforts despite opposition, including fostering inclusive leadership, strengthening internal DEI policies, and engaging in more effective communication about the benefits of diversity. He urges organizations to resist the pressure to retreat on DEI and underscores the importance of the audience's role in sustaining these efforts. This empowers them and makes them feel responsible for the progress of DEI as a business imperative, pointing to research that demonstrates the positive financial impact of diverse and inclusive workplaces.
Ultimately, Project Midnight is a sobering but optimistic account of the state of DEI in America. While acknowledging the challenges, Dr. Goode remains hopeful that organizations can continue moving forward by adopting innovative approaches and remaining committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This book explores how everyday practices in public space (sitting, playing, walking, etc.) challenge the increase of top-down control in the global city. Public Everyday Space focuses on post-Olympic Barcelona--a time of unprecedented levels of gentrification, branding, mass tourism, and immigration. Drawing from examples observed in public spaces (streets, plazas, sidewalks, and empty lots), as well as in cultural representation (film, photography, literature), this book exposes the quiet agency of those excluded from urban decision-making but who nonetheless find ways to carve out spatial autonomy for themselves. Absent from the map or postcard, the quicksilver spatial phenomena documented in this book can make us rethink our definitions of culture, politics, inclusion, legality, architecture, urban planning, and public space.
We all want to be a part of a thriving community. But few of us know how to meaningfully contribute to the places where we live, work, learn and play.
Whether you dream of launching a community innovation center, want to enhance your town with colorful murals, or are simply looking to strengthen relationships with your neighbors, Designing Creative Communities is the guide for you.
Award-winning community builder, Spud Marshall, coaches emerging leaders and community members alike through a simple process for how to transform your town into a creative place to call home. Filled with stories from Spud's work over the past decade, Designing Creative Communities teaches you how to actively create change and have a lot of fun along the way.
The book will introduce you to the CANVAS Framework where you'll learn how to:
This book represents the first in-depth research dedicated to examining the historical and contemporary developments of Japanese film festivals as sites of cultural diplomacy. It focuses on the proliferation, network and operation of Japanese Film Festivals (JFFs) in the Asia-Pacific from the late 1970s until 2020. Through case examples in Australia, Malaysia and Thailand, the book explores how the formation and recent developments of JFFs in the region reflect wider changes in the function of Japanese cultural diplomacy through films, particularly with the intensification of economic, cultural and diplomatic opportunities presented in this geopolitical space.
Elevates in systematic ways the importance of organizational thinking about sustainability and emphasizes the importance of cultural organizations in facilitating societal sustainability goals.
Offering an original perspective on the sustainable-development discourse by emphasizing the importance of culture and cultural institutions in facilitating societal sustainability goals, The Overlooked Pillar conceptualizes sustainability as an institutional logic that develops in organizations and is enacted by managers of such organizations who make decisions and engage in sustainable thinking on a daily basis, leading them to reconcile current organizational realities and the need to adapt to those realities with considerations of the needs of future generations. Drawing on more than five years of research conducted on a variety of organizations within the domain of the arts and humanities, Alisa V. Moldavanova provides a framework for organizational sustainability based on the dynamic interplay of two narratives-institutional resilience and institutional distinctiveness-and identifies mechanisms and strategies adopted by managers of cultural organizations that maintain and enhance intergenerational sustainability. The broader intellectual implication of the insights offered here encompasses the critical notion that genuine long-term sustainability, the kind that secures the rights of future generations, requires sustainable stewardship today.
This textbook provides an introduction to cultural policy in the US, enabling both students and practitioners to understand how government impacts the arts and culture.
Starting with an historical overview of why and how the US developed a national cultural policy, the book goes on to trace the contemporary system of national, state, and local arts and cultural agencies through which that policy is put into practice. Readers are provided both in-depth frameworks for conceptualizing how government regulation and provision shape the arts and culture and carefully illustrated examples of cultural policy in action. Covering critical issues in US cultural policy such as the Culture Wars, culture-led development and gentrification, and field-wide data and research capacities, the book builds a bridge between theory, practice, and politics in the arts and culture. This new edition includes enhanced visualizations and policy maps, expanded policy labs, and a new section on cultural policy during COVID-19.
The result is a text that is essential reading for students and reflective practitioners of arts and cultural management and administration.
The fourth edition of this widely-used textbook introduces students to what it means to be a Latino American culturally and politically at a time of unprecedented challenges for America's diverse and fastest-growing ethnic group. Garcia and Sanchez provide an in-depth examination of the individual communities that comprise the Latino culture, and how those bonds affect political development and decisions. With a look at voting, immigration, political engagement, and the critical public policies that constitute a Latino agenda, Garcia and Sanchez provide substantive insight on Latino pan-ethnic identity, growing policy issues, political participation, and the impact of changing Latino sub-groups.
Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin's own historical propaganda narratives, Russia's invasion of Ukraine makes complete sense. From its World War II cult to anti-Western conspiracy theories, the Kremlin has long used myth and memory to legitimize repression at home and imperialism abroad, its patriotic history resonating with and persuading large swathes of the Russian population.
In Memory Makers, Russia analyst Jade McGlynn takes us into the depths of Russian historical propaganda, revealing the chilling web of nationwide narratives and practices perforating everyday life, from after-school patriotic history clubs to tower block World War II murals. The use of history to manifest a particular Russian identity has had grotesque, even gruesome, consequences, but it belongs to a global political pattern - where one's view of history is the ultimate marker of political loyalty, patriotism and national belonging. Memory Makers demonstrates how the extreme Russian experience is a stark warning to other nations tempted to stare too long at the reflection of their own imagined and heroic past.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, said Theodore Roosevelt. State of Emergency will demonstrate that this is exactly what is happening to America and may now be unstoppable.
The United States of 1960 was a First World nation, 90% of whose people traced their ancestry to Europe, 97% of whom spoke English. We studied the same history and literature in school, went to the same movies, read the same books, listened to the same radio and TV, cherished the same heroes. We were one nation and one people. That America is dead and gone. The deconstruction of America -- along the lines of culture and values, language and faith, allegiance and loyalty -- has begun. By 2050, Americans of European descent will be a minority in the United States. One hundred million Hispanics with ties of language and loyalty to Mexico and Latin America will be living here, concentrated in the Southwest It is the thesis of State of Emergency that the Melting Pot is broken beyond repair, that assimilation and Americanization are not taking place, and that only action is to seal and secure America's borders to halt the flow of over a million legal and illegal immigrants a year, and to begin the Americanization of the tens of millions of aliens in our midst can save America. Our civilization cannot survive indefinitely what is going on. State of Emergency reveals who is doing this to us, why they are doing it, why this is our last chance, and how, if the will is there, we can yet save America from Balkanization and break-up.
A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book....Beautiful and powerful...you will not encounter another book like it.
--National Review online
In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. A timely, cogent, and important attack on the popular Creative Commons movement, Digital Barbarism provides rational, witty, and supremely wise support for the individual voice and its hard-won legal protections.
This volume presents three important themes for the study of Indonesian politics, cultures, and urban space: 1) urban regeneration and collective memory, 2) marginality and the other archives, 3) mood, medium, and media. Readers will find in the collection elements of urban imaginary and practices as represented in essays on community archiving, heritage, spatial experiments, gangsters and hooligans, sex work and sexual violence, youth subcultures, marketplaces, museums, and elite subdivisions. With this, the book offers readers a way to look at how the contributors approach the ever- shifting urban space as a cultural and political arena: how space is represented, produced and contested and how they are implicated in identity formations today and in the past; how individual and collective memories are fixated, disrupted, or catapulted forward by mobility and spatial transformation; how people, landscapes, buildings, movements join forces in transforming self and space, resulting in significant reconfiguration of politics, culture, and memory.
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Project Midnight by Dr. Shelton Goode critically explores the coordinated efforts to undermine diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the corporate, educational, and governmental sectors. The book, written by an experienced DEI expert, delves deeply into the historical context of these programs and the contemporary backlash they face, driven by political and social forces that seek to reverse decades of progress toward racial and gender equality.
Dr. Goode begins by tracing DEI's origins from the Civil Rights Movement and the abolition of slavery. He highlights how DEI has evolved into a strategic initiative for organizations seeking to improve workplace diversity and inclusiveness. He emphasizes that DEI was not just about affirmative action but aimed at creating fair opportunities for historically marginalized groups. Despite the challenges, the resilience of DEI initiatives is a source of inspiration and hope.
The core of Project Midnight centers on the systematic, well-funded attacks by conservative and far-right groups to discredit DEI programs. These groups claim that DEI promotes reverse discrimination against white males and distracts companies from their core missions. Dr. Goode explains how these organizations, bolstered by recent legal decisions such as the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action, have shifted their focus to dismantling corporate DEI initiatives. They target areas such as talent management programs, employee resource groups, supplier diversity, and DEI training efforts, using legal challenges and public misinformation campaigns to achieve their goals.
One of the book's strengths is its use of real-life case studies. Dr. Goode provides detailed accounts of how organizations like Google, Facebook, and Tractor Supply have faced backlash after implementing DEI initiatives. He also examines the broader sociopolitical implications of this anti-DEI movement, tracing its roots to broader movements against social justice and racial equality.
Dr. Goode argues that these attacks are not just isolated events but part of a larger strategy to reverse the progress made in DEI efforts, especially after the 2020 racial justice protests following George Floyd's death. He draws attention to the legal, social, and political strategies used to dismantle programs designed to address inequality and highlights the significant impact on marginalized communities, corporate performance, and the country's overall social fabric.
The book is a call to action for business leaders, DEI professionals, and advocates for social justice. Dr. Goode provides practical strategies for sustaining DEI efforts despite opposition, including fostering inclusive leadership, strengthening internal DEI policies, and engaging in more effective communication about the benefits of diversity. He urges organizations to resist the pressure to retreat on DEI and underscores the importance of the audience's role in sustaining these efforts. This empowers them and makes them feel responsible for the progress of DEI as a business imperative, pointing to research that demonstrates the positive financial impact of diverse and inclusive workplaces.
Ultimately, Project Midnight is a sobering but optimistic account of the state of DEI in America. While acknowledging the challenges, Dr. Goode remains hopeful that organizations can continue moving forward by adopting innovative approaches and remaining committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
For many, Canadian multiculturalism represents the hope that we can build a society in which people who have come from all corners of the world can fully participate without first subverting or erasing their unique identities. Many progressive critics, however, dismiss this hope as an illusion that serves to mask ongoing racism and inequality. Foregrounding the capitalist nature of the Canadian state and society, On the Other Hand examines the arguments of a range of progressive critics of Canadian multiculturalism.
An exercise in critical listening, the book aims to both communicate and assess these progressive critiques. It proposes conditions for the intelligibility of social science analysis in general and reflects on the requirements for effective progressive thought and writing. Grounded in a political economy approach, the book argues that capitalism and the capitalist nature of the state must be integrated into our analysis of multiculturalism, immigration policy, and persistent racism.
On the Other Hand reveals how progressive critiques can identify real limits of multiculturalism: limits of which we must be aware if we are either to endorse them or seek to transcend them.