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In this era of bitter culture wars, polarization and acrimony, we could all benefit from getting out of our echo chambers and learning skills to have meaningful and respectful conversations

In this era of bitter culture wars, polarization and acrimony, we could all benefit from getting out of our echo chambers and learning skills to have meaningful and respectful conversations

With a desire to bring the region together amid polarizing times and bridge gaps in understanding from differing points of view, Innovia Foundation is hosting a rescheduled Curious Conversations event on May 31. The event will feature a panel discussion, community conversation and an audience question-and-answer session with acclaimed Pacific Northwest authors Mónica Guzmán and Erin Jones.

You can make progress even if you don’t share basic facts.

This hour on Disrupted, we explore how to communicate across the political divide. Mónica Guzmán joins us, author of 'I never thought of it that way: how to have fearlessly curious conversations in dangerously divided times' — and we hear about a controversial vocabulary worksheet at a Connecticut high school.

The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream by Richard Alba Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American
 Politics by Zoltan L. Hajnal The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals by Christopher T. Stout University of Virginia Press, 2020, 268 pp. In a commencement address at the University of California, San Diego in 1997, President Bill Clinton spoke of a time when white ...