The 10 Lenses: Your Guide to Living and Working in a Multicultural World

by Mark Alexander Williams

In this ground-breaking new book, acclaimed diversity expert Mark Williams offers ten "eye-opening" lenses to help you, your organization, and everyone in it, understand how cultural diversity affects the way we live and work. There's the Assimilationist who believes that everyone should act like a true blue American, and the Culturalcentrist who believes that a person's race or ethnicity is central to their personal and public identity; the Meritrocratist who is sure that if you have the abilities and work hard enough you can make your dreams come true regardless of race or culture, and the Victim/Caregiver who believes that because of bias they will never succeed. Learn more about these lenses, as well as six other lenses that Mark Williams has developed to respond to cultural diversity.

Genres: Read For School, Nonfiction

247 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[K C · Rating 2 out of 5]

I can't in all honesty say I "read" this book. I skimmed it as it was part of the "Big Read" for the whole school community this fall. It is an interesting premise and I have a feeling hearing the author discuss his theories in person would have made it seem more relevant.