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Article: Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Higher Education
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs
by Raechele L. Pope, Amy L. Reynolds, and John A. Mueller. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.
288 pp. Hardcover $36.00. ISBN 0-7879-6207-4
A student affairs professional takes a break to watch a news program in the lounge. Eight students are also in the lounge watching the news. When the show returns from commercial, the story is on the "differential treatment Whites and Blacks receive in employment and housing." When the segment ends, a White student complains that the story was "grossly one-sided" and inaccurate and explains how he was once discriminated against in obtaining a summer internship. ...