LibGuides: Diversity: Diversity Card Project

Diversity Card Project

What is Diversity?

Diversity is “gender, language, manners and culture, social roles, sexual orientation, education, skills, income, and countless other domains”. (Greater Good Magazine at UC Berkeley).

National Race Card Project

Why the Diversity Card Project?

The Diversity Card Project is based off of a national project called the Race Card Project which started in 2010.

Iowa Lakes Community College is diverse, but it's not always those elements of ourselves that are obvious to others. So we wanted to give our community the chance to see, comment, and discuss how we all fit in together and make Iowa Lakes Community College a great place to be! And we wanted to give our community the opportunity to discuss those difficult topics related to race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, social roles, income and so forth. These are our strengths.

Race Card Project
The Race Card Project encourages people to condense their observations and experiences about race into one sentence with just Six Words. Since it began in 2010, the Project has received tens of thousands of Six Word stories from all over the world. The Race Card Project has earned a deep well of trust on a thorny topic as evidenced by the candor and depth of the submissions. The Six Word essays featured on the website, theracecardproject.com, provide a window into America’s private conversations about race and cultural identity. As such, the website has been used by schools, businesses, churches and even the military to foster a dialogue about race. The Six Word stories are also featured regularly in reports by Michele Norris on NPR’s Morning Edition.