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Author Klau, Max, author.

Title What's true about race and social change? : a quest, a study, a call to action / Max Klau
Published San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations
Contents Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: A Personal Quest; Chapter 2: Introduction to Classic Social Psychology Experiments; The Individual Level of Analysis: Obedience and Conformity; The Intergroup Level of Analysis: Studies of Intergroup Group Conflict, Cooperation, Privilege, and Oppression; Beyond Intergroup Dynamics: The Unexplored Frontier; Chapter 3: Understanding Systems, Part I: Dynamics of Complex Systems; Nonlinear Dynamics; Interdependence; Self-Organization; The "Game of Life" and Complexity in Social Systems; Introduction to Fractals; Complexity
Chapter 4: Understanding Systems, Part II: Development Toward Complexity and the Hidden Process Driving Social ChangeDevelopment of Sociopolitical Systems; Complex Systems and the Dynamics of Social Transformations; Final Thoughts on the Whole Systems Perspective; Chapter 5: The Separation Exercises; The Separation Exercise in Context: The History and Philosophy of NCCJ and Camp Anytown; Research Methodology; The Narratives; Concluding Thoughts on the Separation Exercises; Chapter 6: Findings at the Interpersonal and Intergroup Levels; The Interpersonal Level of Analysis
The Intergroup Level of AnalysisChapter 7: The Whole System Level of Analysis; Patterns That Appear Across All Three Exercises; Exploring the Different Outcomes of the Exercises; The Paradox of Structure and Freedom; Quantitative Metrics as a Manifestation of the Quality of Presence of Directors; The Paradox of Holding Power and Love; Illuminating the Connection Between the Inner and Outer Worlds; How Wholeness Challenges Us to Radically Reframe Our Understanding of Events; Awakening to Inner Wholeness
Chapter 8: Lessons for the Real World, Part I: Seeing the System and the Process of AwakeningSeeing the System; A System of Racial Privilege and Oppression Exists; The Process of Awakening for White People; The Process of Awakening for People of Color; Awakening as an Ongoing Journey; Awakening to Internalized Privilege; Awakening to Internalized Hierarchy; Final Thoughts on Awakening to the System; Chapter 9: Lessons for the Real World, Part II: On Power, Control, and the Interconnectedness of Our Inner and Outer Worlds; Who Designed It? Understanding the Origins of the System
Understanding Historical Traumas and GloriesWho's in Charge? Understanding Individual Power, Responsibility, and Influence in the System; Understanding Inner Ways of Being and Outer Change; Understanding the Self in the System; Chapter 10: The (Dual) Call to Action; The Individual Call to Action: Undertake a Journey of Personal Awakening; The National Call to Action: Voluntary National Service as a Civic Rite of Passage; Final Thoughts on the Dual Call to Action; Closing Thought; References; Appendix A: Research Methodology Overview; Appendix B: Sample Questionnaire
Notes Appendix C: Codes Related to Research Question 1: "How do Individuals Understand Their Involvement in Macro-Level Systemic Dynamics?"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Social justice -- United States -- Case studies
Social change -- United States
Anti-racism -- United States
Leadership -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Anti-racism
Leadership -- Moral and ethical aspects
Social change
Social justice
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781119359432
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9781119359418
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