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You will find below new intercultural books available at the Intercultural U Bookstore. The books cover a variety of intercultural relations topics (e.g., culture, diversity, prejudice, racism, stereotypes). Please order your intercultural items or anything else you usually order on Amazon through IU Bookstore site or visit Amazon.com directly through this link.  At the IU Bookstore site you can see new intercultural items from the past few months on the recently released page.  Please note that a significant portion of the Bookstore profits will be used to help support intercultural research and education.  Intercultural U is an Amazon associate and receives a small commission from the sale. You will get the same savings and service that you usually get with Amazon, but now you will also help support Intercultural U (at no additional cost to you). It's a win-win situation. : )   Please order your intercultural books and DVDs or anything else you usually order on Amazon through this site. Thank you for your orders and your continued support is sincerely appreciated.

 July 2007

• The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
• Come Hell or High Water by Michael Eric Dyson
• International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior (5th ed.)
• Managing Internationally: Succeeding in a Culturally Diverse World
• Communication Across Cultures: Mutual Understanding in a Global World
• Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context
• "Where Do I Go from Here?": Meeting the Unique Educational Needs of Migrant Students
• Social Justice and Intercultural Education: An Open-Ended Dialogue
• Race, Culture, and Schooling: Identities of Achievement in Multicultural Urban Schools
• Culture Shock and Japanese-american Relations: Historical Essays

 

See even more recently released intercultural books, movies, and music.

Below is a listing of 50+ interculturally-themed shows and movies on U.S. television this week, anything from comedies, to crime dramas, to documentaries. 

Here are my suggested must-sees*

• 'Sharp Talk with Al Sharpton' -- At a barbershop in Brooklyn, Sharpton and his guests discuss a recent recreation of a 1941 experiment in which children responded to black and white dolls.
• 'Black Men Revealed' --  Is it right to date outside one's own race?
• 'Dr. Phil'  --  Dr. Phil takes on prejudice.
• 'MI-5' --  Tom and Helen go undercover to stop a man from murdering immigrants and trying to start a race war.
• 'King of the Hill'  --  In this episode a Laotian family (the Souphanousinphones) move in next door to Hank and his family.  A culture clash ensues.
• 'The Grace Lee Project' --  A documentary about female Asian-American identity and stereotypes.

 

See details and many more listings below. Just click "read more.'

The Fall 1998 issue of The Edge: The E-Journal of Intercultural Relations is now available on Intercultural U.  This issue focuses on intercultural relations and the Internet.  The articles in this issue include:

• Intercultural Computer-Mediated Communication (ICCMC)
  
• Intercultural Communication via E-mail Debate
• Cultural Imperialism on the Internet
  
• Talking Heads vs. Virtual Workspaces: A Comparison of Design Across Cultures
  

The Summer 1998 issue of The Edge: The E-Journal of Intercultural Relations is now available on Intercultural U.  The Summer 1998 issue is one most popular issues of The Edge.  The articles in this issue include:

• An Interview with Edward T. Hall
  
• An Interview with Everett M. Rogers
  
• The Role of Dominant Ethnicity in Racism: Reportage on Chinese Rule in Multi-Racial Singapore
• What is Intercultural Relations?
• What Religions Say About Intercultural Relations
• see more articles from this issue

More issues of The Edge will be moved to InterculturalU.com in the near future.

A new page has been added to the IU Library.  We've added a page to help intercultural relations graduate students with their theses and dissertations.  For now, the page includes excerpts from R. Murray Thomas and Dale L. Brubaker's book titled Theses and Dissertations: A Guide to Planning, Research, and Writing.  Check out this and other information by clicking on "Theses/Dissertation" under "Library" in the Navigation bar to the left.

New intercultural books and movies available in the IU Bookstore include Education for Intercultural Citizenship, A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication and Olivia Ball and Paul Gready's No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights.  In their new book Ball and Gready specifically address the conflicts that can occur when universal human rights clashes with specific cultures.  New DVD's include Discovery Atlas: China Revealed and a 2 DVD set Alien Nation/Enemy Mine.  The Discovery Atlas series recently airing on U.S. television is a little different from other travel programs.  Whereas other travel programs tend to focus on the sights of a country, here in the Discovery Atlas series there is a focus on the people of a country.  The Alien Nation/Enemy Mine DVD set fits into a sub-genre of science fiction films -- the clash of cultures.  In Alien Nation a large group of previously enslaved aliens become citizens of the United States.  This is cop buddy movie - one cop a human and the other an alien.  Enemy Mine follows a similar theme.  Two enemies (one human and the other alien) are stranded together on a barren planet and must work together to survive.  Enemy Mine is based in part on the 1968 war movie Hell in the Pacific. If you are especially interested in the intercultural sub-genre of science fiction film, you might also want to see John Carpenter's Starman.

We've added some new features to the InterculturalU.com site. You will now find links to a What's New page, a Help Desk page and a Suggestion Box page.  You can find these links in the navigation bar in the the left-hand column.  Please let us know what you think? There is a Kudos & Complaints topic area listed on the Suggestion Box page.

Intercultural U (IU) is an online, virtual community of people interested in intercultural relations.  Topics covered include: racism, prejudice, stereotypes, hate crimes, culture, diversity, multiculturalism, race, ethnicity, linguistics, intercultural and diversity training/consulting, culture shock, ethnocentrism, nonverbal communication, intercultural communication, cross cultural psychology, cultural anthroplogy and race relations.

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