Personal Communicating and Racial Equity: A Humane Technology for Developing Anti-Stereotyping Relationships with People Who Are Different from You

Martin Luther King Jr. once said ""People fail to get along with each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.""

Personal Communicating and Racial Equity: A Humane Technology for Building Anti-Stereotyping Relationships with People Who are Different from you explains how to ""properly communicate"" with people culturally different from you through a nine step process.

This short manual is designed to empower social justice advocates, intercultural communication and race-class-gender students, multicultural competence workshop participants, and racial equity advocates by addressing one of U.S. culture's most serious 21st century challenges.

The nine steps for proper communication included in Personal Communicating and Racial Equity: A Humane Technology for Building Anti-Stereotyping Relationships with People Who are Different from you, by John Stewart:

• Are ""humane"" and focus on what it means to be human
• Help build ""non-stereotyping"" relationships that are as personal as possible
• Mobilize curiosity, humility, and platinum empathy to help connect with others