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Title: A Questionable Read
Review: This is the textbook we are using for a graduate level class in cultural and social diversity. I am actually amazed that my university chose this text. The tone that the author sets is cynical at best. On one hand, the need to be culturally competent is being heartily emphasized, but he is also stressing almost religiously that this is the way things are and probably will remain. If this is the case, why even study cultural and social diversity--to just check the block and say we're trying to do better? Another thing that bothers me is that much of the research in this text is not updated for this to be a 2007 edition. Statistics from the 1980s or early 1990s? I am glad for one thing though, this is only an eight-week course.
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