The Department of Communication of Gonzaga University hosted Dr. Ralina L Joseph for the Speech Screening Strategic Ambiguity. Joseph is the Director for the Center of Communication, Difference, and Equity at the University of Washington. She is also an Associate Professor of Communications, American Ethic Studies and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies. Strategic Ambiguity is the idea that a person who is experiencing racism does not respond, in order to win in the end, in other words playing the long game. In addition, it is important to not just be a bystander, intervene and contribute to a more fair environment. In order to have a successful speech that will strongly convey your point to the audience it is vital to have strong delivery,
From the beginning of the speech X tells the audience that his religion is Islam and that he is a muslim, but then proceeds to tell his audience that his religious preference has no ill effect on his passion for fighting for equality. Another part of the speech that builds his credibility is when he mentions that the audience and himself have the same problem. In his speech he says “They don’t hang you because you’re because a Baptist, they hang you ‘cause you’re black. They don’t attack me because I’m a Muslim, they attack me ‘cause I’m black.” This builds his credibility because he is relating to his audience over a common problem. The common problem is them being darker complected,or black, and being treated unfairly by lighter skin, or white,
Steele makes a definition of stereotype threat that “This means that whenever we’re in a situation where a bad stereotype about one of our own identities could be applied to us”. For example, people always thinks that black people are dangerous; white people have a worse “natural athletic ability” than black people; Female are not good at math. These examples mean that identity contingencies always makes people have a constant impression of the kind of group people, but sometimes, these impression are not truth. Crosley-Corcoran says, “ So when that feminist told me I had “white privilege,” I told her that my white skin didn’t do shit to prevent me from experiencing poverty.” Here, she uese emotional strategy to express her disapproval of the feminist thought that she gets a lot benefits from white privilege. People always think that white people have privilege than black people, so white people have a better live circumstance than black people. However, according to Crosley-Corcoran poor situation, she doesn’t like other rich white people can have a comfortable circumstance to live because she doesn’t have enough money. Here, this thing also proved that identity
The author states racism is all around us and we should talk about racial discrimination. Throughout her book she explains the hesitation people have about talking about racialism. She argues that people are silent out of fear of being impolite, indiscreet and infringing boundaries.
In A Tactical Ethic, Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battlespace, author Dick Couch addresses what he believes to be an underlying problem, most typical of small units, of wanton ethical and moral behavior partly stemming from the negative “ethical climate and moral culture” of today’s America (Couch, D., 2010, p. 15). In chapter one, he reveals what A Tactical Ethic will hope to accomplish; that is identify the current ethics of today’s military warriors, highlight what is lacking, and make suggestions about what can be done to make better the ethical behavior of those on the battlefield and in garrison. He touches on some historic anecdotes to highlight the need for high ethics amongst today’s military warriors as well as briefly mentions
Race has been a difficult topic to discuss and grasp ever since race problems began. Not only is it a sensitive topic that carries a lot of baggage to the name, but it is a continuous problem that we still today, after many years, battle with. “The Code Switch Podcast, Episode 1: Can we talk about Whiteness?” is a podcast with many speakers of different colors that discusses white ignorance and white uncertainty of talking about racial issues.
Most people have had some sort of conflict affect their lives at least once. That conflict could alter a person’s views of the world around them. In the play Doubt by John Patrick Shanley, conflict is used to grasp the reader’s emotions and cause the reader to rethink their preconceived notions about the characters in the play. Doubt takes place in 1964 in St. Nicholas, which is a school and Catholic Church in New York. The play focuses on a priest named Father Brendan Flynn and a nun named Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The conflict highlighted in this play is between these two characters. After Father Flynn starts taking an African American student under his wing, named Donald Muller, Sister Aloysius suspects Father Flynn is up to no good. She
Scott, Karla D. "Communication Strategies Across Cultural Borders: Dispelling Stereotypes, Performing Competence, And Redefining Black Womanhood." Women's Studies In Communication 36.3 (2013): 312-329. Humanities International Complete. Web. 19 Dec. 2013.
First, they equal racism with individual prejudice and personal ignorance, which allow them to assume every group is racist, and to avoid acknowledging the differences in power and privileges between whites and groups of color. Second, many whites define culture in a way that draws impermeable boundaries around groups, and that views culture as consisting of flat and unchanging holdovers from the past. Moreover, equating ethnicity with race is a related strategy for evading racism, which actually highlights cultural heritage and denies whiteness as a phenomenon worth scrutiny. Furthermore, they evade white racism by constructing sentence that allows them to talk while removing themselves about racism. The final strategy is to avoid use of a subject together by employing passive sentence construction. However, the more subtle one is the process called "white racial bonding", which the author explains as the interactions that have the purpose of affirming a common stance on race-related issues, legitimating particular interpretations of oppressed groups, and drawing we-they boundaries, for example, using strategic eye-contact, jokes and/or codewords.
December 7th, 1941 is a day that lives in infamy and changed the course of American history. Despite the United States’ trepidation and hesitation about entering World War II, the deadly attack on Pearl Harbor influences President Roosevelt to declare war on the Empire of Japan, to claim, “that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.” The vast majority of modern American citizens view World War II as the pivotal moment of the 20th century, when the forces of good (the Allies) defeat evil (The Axis Powers). Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 satirically dissects this popular notion about World War II, and humorously exposes the ineffective bureaucratic and immoral profit-driven nature of the American war effort. Heller accomplishes his goal by creating
Racism has been a huge problem throughout the United States and every individual struggles with the unproductive messages of racism that is being passed on through from larger societies. Many people suffered from this in silence and it is what hits the hardest on children and youth who lack the life experience to understa...
Reid, Landon D., and Kristen E. Birchard. "The People Doth Protest Too Much: Explaining Away Subtle Racism." Journal of Language & Social Psychology 29.4 (2010): 478-490. Communication & Mass Media Complete. EBSCO. Web. 21 Apr. 2011.
Most of the common activities in our daily life present an opportunity to negotiate, whether or not we realise it. Meta-reflecting upon my negotiation experiences during the class and other activities have led me to identify few common themes. In this assignment, the two themes I will be discussing are (1) the importance of being clear on the strategic intent and big picture thinking, and (2) the importance of managing the negotiation process through understanding the various phases and visualising negotiation as a train journey.
How would it feel if you woke up each day fearing for your life, just because of the pigment of your skin or the irrelevant opinion of someone who believes they are superior. since ancient times, Discrimination has been a great issue in our society, it’s always been, and probably will continue to be in the near future. Now that the discrimination among officers have been in the spotlight, the fact that they’re not getting proper punishments are allowing a great amount of people to realize that This is a serious issue; and innocent individuals are losing their lives from the careless opinions of others.However, this is consistently changing depending upon the area in which it occurs in.
Jimenez was successful in Wichita not because of the monthly chats, weekly baseball games or Keller, but because she set up an environment conducive to attaining results she needed. This achieved two critical goals- it enabled the employees develop cross-functional solutions and fostered a sense of ownership and commitment. Jimenez misunderstood what made the Wichita project successful. Instead of trying to set up circumstances conducive to developing site-specific solutions in Lubbock, she simple imported the methods that the Wichita employees had created.
This report provides an analysis and evaluation of strategy implementation used by California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) and discusses the effectiveness of their strategy through organization design, control systems, people and culture. My research concluded that CPK relies on control systems to undertake a majority of the company’s operational activities and that human resources and organizational culture must support the strategy implemented, which it does in in the case of CPK.