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Thank you for your investment in the university, in our country,

and in me

Professor john a. powell Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Executive

Directorand The Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and

InclusionUniversity of California, Berkeley

The Challenges & Opportunities of Diversities

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Research Clusters

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Research

Government

Communications

Translation to change frame Sharing Community input

Non-university based research

UCB & system Wide

Relationships

Direct service and

organizing Institutions

The Network

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Diversity in the United StatesAs a fact, the United States is

richly diverse place. 2010 U.S. Census estimates

that of the approximately 310 million Americans, there are:– 230 million Whites– 40 million Latino/as– 35 million Black or African

American– 16 million Asian Americans– 4 million Native American– 3 million Arab Americans

U.S. Census Bureau, 2010

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2008 population estimates:– 54 million people have a disability– By age: • 5 percent of children 5 to 17 have

disabilities• 10 percent of people 18 to 64

have disabilities• 38 percent of adults 65 and older

have disabilities

2008 American Community Survey, http://factfinder.census.gov

Diversity in the United States

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Diversity in the United States

http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf

Percent and number of adults who identify as LGBTQ

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Challenges & Opportunities of Diversity

• “One of the most important challenges facing modern societies, and at the same time one of our most significant opportunities, is the increase in ethnic and social heterogeneity in virtually all advanced countries”

• “The central challenge for modern, diversifying societies is to create a new, broader sense of ‘we’.”

Putnam, R. “E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century—The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture.” Nordic Political Science Association, 30.2 (2007): 1.

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Limitations of Diversity

• What work does diversity do?

• What are its limitations in aiming for fairness, inclusion, and equity

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Social Cleavages in Our Society

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Putnam’s Vision of Diversity

To develop “bridging social capital” networks” that are both “outward looking and accompany people across diverse social cleavages”

Source: Putnam, Robert D., 2000, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.

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Our Vision of Diversity

Diversity Where Social

Cleavages Disappear

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Implicit Bias / Mind Science

Structures/Institutional

Arrangements

Power

Our Approach

Some people ride the “Up” escalator to reach opportunity

Others have to run up the stairs to get to opportunity

The Context of Opportunity Matters

Targeted UniversalismStructural Inequity produces consistently different outcomes for different communities.

Targeted Universalism responds with universal goals and targeted solutions

VS.

Targeted Universalism Structural Inequity

©2012 Connie Cagampang Heller

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