Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity

Shiao Jiannbin Lee Shiao

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"Diversity" has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity, Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in establishing diversity as a goal throughout American society in the post-civil rights era. By creating and institutionalizing diversity policies, these private organizations have quietly transformed the practice of affirmative action. Shiao describes how, from the 1960s through the 1990s, philanthropies responded to immigration, the recognition of nonblack minority groups, and the conservative backlash against affirmative action. He shows that these pressures not only shifted discourse and practice within philanthropy away from a binary black-white conception of race but also dovetailed with a change in its mission from supporting "good causes" to "identifying talent."Based on three years of research on the racial and ethnic priorities of the San Francisco Foundation and the Cleveland Foundation, Shiao demonstrates the geographically uneven impact of the national transition to diversification. The demographics of the regions served by the foundations in San Francisco and Cleveland are quite different, and paradoxically, the foundation in Cleveland-which serves an area with substantially fewer immigrants-has had greater institutional opportunities for implementing diversity policies. Shiao connects these regional histories with the national philanthropic field by underscoring the prominent role of the Ford Foundation, the third largest private foundation in the country, in shaping diversity policies. Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity reveals philanthropic diversity policy as a lens through which to focus on U.S. race relations and the role of the private sector in racial politics.

Sujets

• Employabilité, métiers et formations
• Industrial relations
• Labour economics

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 07 décembre 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822386216
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity

jiannbin lee shiao

Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity

Race and Philanthropy in Post–Civil Rights America

duke university press

durham and london 2005

∫2005 Duke University Press. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$ Designed by Rebecca M. Giménez. Typeset in Adobe Minion by Keystone Typesetting. Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

To my parents,

Wen-Tsai and Fang-Zu Shiao,

and my sister,

Lihbin Lee Shiao

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Tables and Figures / ix

Acknowledgments / xi

Diversity, Philanthropy, and Race Relations / 1

Race Talk in the National Magazine of Foundation Philanthropy / 28

Business Philanthropy in the Greater Cleveland Area / 67

Progressive Philanthropy in the San Francisco Bay Area / 110

Elite Visibility in Institutional Racial Formation / 151

Exploring the Validity of Diversity Policy for Foundations Themselves / 200

The Institutional Segmentation of Post–Civil Rights America / 234

Notes / 259

References / 269

Index / 283

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Tables Hypotheses for the Emergence of Diversity Policies / 32

Racial and Ethnic Articles Published inFoundation News and Commentary, 1960–1989 / 35–37

Frequencies of Group Appearances in Minority Articles and in Group-Specific Articles / 38

Group Inclusions in Minority Discourse by Theme and Year / 41

Frequency of Inclusion Patterns in Minority Articles / 42

First Appearance of Three Types of Philanthropic Identification / 44

First Appearance of Four Types of Talent or Model Grantees / 45

Nativity and Ethnoracial Characteristics of the Greater Cleveland Area, 1960–2000 (U.S. Census) / 72

Nativity and Ethnoracial Characteristics of the San Francisco Bay Area, 1960–2000 (U.S. Census) / 114–15

Organizations Mentioned in Philanthropic Discourse about Race / 162

Figures Pluralism in Philanthropy/ 30

The Trajectory of Discourse about Race and Ethnicity inFoundation News and Commentary, 1960–1989 / 56

The Annual Pace and Group Foci of Articles Published in Foundation News and Commentary, 1960–1989 / 62