What you missed on Race in the Workplace
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
In case you haven’t been checking out New Demographic’s latest blog, Race in the Workplace, here’s what you may have missed:
Promoting diversity in American classical music
Adina Ba interviews Aaron Dworkin, founder and president of the Sphinx Organization, a national non-profit founded in 1996 to overcome the dramatic racial inequalities in the field of classical music. Did you know that nationally, less than 4% of professional orchestras are comprised of Blacks and Latinos combined?
When you’re too honest during diversity training
Funny video from Comedy Central’s show “Dog Bites Man.” The diversity trainer they hire has no idea what he’s in for.
Recommended Reading
Why are non-white workers less likely to say promotions are based on merit? Is it a mistake to be a stay-at-home mother? How can you avoid an asshole boss? What’s the best way to ask for mentoring? Why are companies scared to fire problem workers?
Watercooler: The missing wedding invitation
Merq shares a story about a white coworker who not only refused to invite any non-white colleagues to his wedding but then proceeded to insult Merq with a racist joke.
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
deb wrote:
Way before this blog I mentioned a program that might fit in RIW. I say might because it was an experiment done by a schoolteacher in her classroom. And school is a workplace, right? It’s called A Class Divided. The day after Dr. King was assasinated, Jane Elliott divided her third grade class into a blue-eyed group and a brown-eyed group and had the children experience discrimination.
Nearly 40 years later, I wonder if those kids, now adults, have any lasting impressions?
Posted 26 Apr 2007 at 12:12 pm ¶
Meg wrote:
pretty sure Jane Elliott continues to do her workshops and that includes workplaces. She was in New Scientist last year saying how she still receives death threats so she’s still having an impact. Not sure about the original students.
Posted 26 Apr 2007 at 6:17 pm ¶
Angel H. wrote:
I’m glad you put up this reminder, because when you first posted about the new blog, I could never log on. After that, I kinda - er, forgot about it. ^_^
I”m looking forward to reading all of the posts I’ve missed!
Posted 26 Apr 2007 at 9:11 pm ¶
deb wrote:
Death threats? Dayum! Hope they’re not coming from former students!
Posted 27 Apr 2007 at 8:29 am ¶