(NAME-MCE) Free discussion guide to: Race Manners, Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans

[Anselmo Villanueva]

*From:* Patricia Ikeda-Nash
*Sent:* Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:44 PM
*Subject:* Free discussion guide to: Race Manners, Navigating the Minefield
Between Black and White Americans

 http://www.arcadepub.com/book/?GCOI=55970100613240&fa=complements


At the link above, there are *two free downloads*:

1) A new, free discussion guide to accompany Bruce Jacobs's *Race Manners
for the 21st Century: Navigating the Minefield between Black and White
Americans in an Age of Fear.*  This is a guide to opening many conversations
about race in the U.S. For example, the author suggests a conversation based
on these questions:

        How do you feel about modern affirmative action programs?

   - Is this hard for you to talk about across racial lines? Why?
   - What would make you feel more comfortable talking about it?

There are also prompts that refer to the racial tensions in the U.S.
following 9-11.

 In this discussion guide the author offers "The Rules of Engagement" to
"give you suggestions for getting the most out of these conversations" and
says, "It's not always going to be easy. Stay with it. After all, if we who
are willing to sit down together don't follow through on this vital
interchange, who will?"


2)  *Building Relationships Toward Racial
Harmony*<http://www.arcadepub.com/livre/index.cfm?GCOI=55970100613240&fa=customcontent&custompage=resources%2Ftitles%2F55970100613240%2Fextras%2Findex%2Ehtm>
How Our City Used *Race Manners* to Reach Across Racial Barriers. And How
You Can Do It In Your Community.

This is written by community activists in Toledo, Ohio, who say:

"Sometimes trying to change racial relationships starts in your own
neighborhood. That's the way it worked for us in Toledo, Ohio, with what
turned out to be a hugely successful community effort: *'On the Same Page: Race
Manners Community Wide.'*

"Building Relationships Toward Racial Harmony is a grass roots group that
was started by a few of us in Toledo in the spring of 2001 in response to a
conflict that took place in our community over a proposal to re-name a
historic street after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Basically, in the wake of
a controversy that divided our community, we felt it was time to talk, to *
really* talk. Building Relationships Toward Racial Harmony (BRRH) may be a
long name, but to us it's a meaningful one."