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Diversify Hardcover – 19 Oct. 2017

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‘A handbook for these troubled times’ Psychologies Magazine
’Engaging and informative … highlights our common humanity’ Kofi Annan
‘A passionately written polemic’ You Magazine

The truth is, INCLUSION is better for EVERYONE.

In this empowering call to arms, June Sarpong MBE proves why.

Putting the spotlight on groups who are often marginalised in our society, including women, ethnic minorities, those living with disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ community, Diversify uncovers the hidden cost of exclusion and shows how a new approach to how we learn, live and do business can solve some of the most stubborn challenges we face.

With unshakeable case studies, brand-new research from Oxford University, and six revolutionary steps to help you overcome unconscious bias, this book will help you become part of a better society.

The old way isn’t working. This is a case for change.

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‘Engaging and informative … June Sarpong examines the research behind diversity and discrimination while grounding them in personal narratives, highlighting our common humanity.’ Kofi Annan, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

‘I am so glad June Sarpong is working on this matter of diversity. We don't seem to know how to handle differences. When will we learn that we share one common humanity as Shakespeare's Shylock declared so eloquently?’ Desmond Tutu

‘My experiences during the Holocaust has led me on a lifetime mission to promote the benefits of diversity … telling my story and that of my step-sister Anne Frank and why civil society must do all it can to protect and celebrate our diversity. Diversify helps us take the first steps on the journey to tolerance.’ Eva Schloss MBE

“A passionately written polemic” You Magazine

‘How boring would life be without diversity? A case of the bland leading the bland. Life would be pretty … dull without [my autistic son’s] literal, lateral, tangential take on the world … Mozart, Orwell, Van Gough, Warhol and many other amazing artists, scientists and musicians were on the autistic spectrum. And yet only 15% of autistic people are in the workforce. If only we would learn to think outside the neurotypical box’ Kathy Lette

‘An engaging read with lots of important and good ideas’ Stylist

‘A handbook for these troubled times’ Psychologies Magazine

About the Author

Ibi Zoboi was born in Haiti, and holds an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Book Review, and The Rumpus, among others. She is the author of American Street, a US National Book Award finalist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and three children. You can find her online at www.ibizoboi.net.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HQ; First Edition (19 Oct. 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008217041
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008217044
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.9 x 3.7 x 24 cm

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Customers find the book educational and well-researched, describing it as a compelling introduction to diversity topics. Moreover, the writing style receives positive feedback for its good intent, and customers appreciate its inspirational insights, with one noting how it opens eyes to current issues. Additionally, the book receives praise for its beauty, with one customer describing it as a masterpiece, and another highlighting its strong argument for diversity.

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Peter Davis
An essential guidebook to an important positive change in society.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2020
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I don’t know where to find a better jargon-free introductory guide to the whole subject of embracing diversity - the whole idea of operating in a more inclusive way towards everyone. This is not a book about selecting one minority’s issues over another or about tripping people up that are 'not yet with the program'. Instead it shows how so many of us can be part of an ‘other’ in one way or another, potentially stereotyped, underrepresented, undervalued. June takes a look at seven categories of ‘other’, in each case showing what can be wrong and what can be preferable. It all adds up to make a powerful statement of what society stands to gain in quality, strength and efficiency if we continue the journey towards fully inclusive attitudes.

Before inviting others to self-challenge, June opens up an example from her own experience. Then, as the book unfolds, we begin to see how June herself has experience of being the 'other’ in a number of respects, and has found herself in places and with people that are very much on the front line. At the same time we’re taken on a tour of people, events and concepts that Illuminate a little of the detail that will help us gain a perspective. Reading this, you can quickly sketch in critical significance from references to Jo Cox, Charles Taylor, John Powell, Stella Young, the Obamas, Peabody, David Adjaye’s Sugar Hill, Grenfell, a key Kennedy speech, gender parity arguments, and how best to expose extremist views to critical analysis. One of my best sections is the FAQs (yes I’m all for diversity but.. etc). An essential, compelling read and, like me, you might wish you could memorise it.

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Gemma
Powerful, insightful, IMPORTANT...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2018
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To be part of the change, to be part of the conversation, you need to be part of the education. You need to listen. To learn. To reflect. To understand how you can be part of the movement. To be part of the change we all need to shift our perspectives. To understand our privilege; our power; our part.

Brilliantly researched and supported by robust (often frustrating, alarming, and truly upsetting) statistics and case-studies, the number of powerful voices speaking up to share their truths so we can all better drive the charge to make a difference is humbling. June has curated and contextualised interviews with some truly exceptional contributors - people who not only know their shit, but who tirelessly use this knowledge to drive change, shift narratives, break stereotypes, challenge and alter behaviour and amplify the conversation - extremely cleverly; breaking down the six core societal “others” (and further exploring the sub-groups within them) marginalised in society and subject to unconscious bias on a daily basis.

Diversify positions us to help challenge perceptions and join them in their charge - to amplify the voices of those who don’t feel heard, valued or accepted; to make them louder and stronger and more powerful than ever before. Because these voices matter. If there's one thing you take away from this book - and there will be SO much more than just one thing - it’s that we are in this TOGETHER...

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R H Evans
Thank you a very special book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2018
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Thank you June for a very special book. Courageous, thoughtful and for me very inspiring!
I particularly liked the out of the box and range of your context. Everyone should read this very special book from a seriously fine lady.

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Mark Woollacott
Educational, honest, and at times philosophical
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 November 2019
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This is a really good book. It is educational, honest, and at times philosophical. It is a book that brings clarity, hope, inspiration and the potential for good outcomes to the reader. The author writes with verve and conviction, all of which comes from personal experiences, astute perceptions, humility and compassion – the only place where truth and wisdom can ever hope to arise. I highly recommend this book.

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Bobby Smith
Great idea but...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2017
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June Sarpong, TV celeb, Remainist and all-round good egg, has written an impassioned plea for the country to be united and to celebrate our diversity as a nation. As a concept I agree with her but as a book I found her arguments one-dimensional and a tad naïve – by that I mean she comes over very much like a 1960s hippy, convinced that if we all hold hands together the world will be a better place. Harsh? Maybe, but it was a thought that struck me throughout as I read her words. Of course, many of our citizens could do with a hug and a dash of flower power in their lives, removing all that Brexit bitterness that is found in pubs and clubs on a Saturday night, but I am not sure this book – with its strange combination of warm personal experience mixed with cold, hard facts - is the way to do it.
Miss Sarpong comes over as honest, passionate and enthusiastic – much as she does on the Pledge TV show. However, this approach is not always backed up with the academic rigour that is expressed by the likes of David Goodhart, who tends to have a more nuanced tone to his writing. Ironically, for a book about the benefits of diversity, she is too black and white with her conclusions: diversity good, anti-diversity bad. I would argue it is not that simple and that the shades of grey – that dip in and out of each camp – are what make life interesting. That said, she does admit to now understanding the mind-set of those who voted for Brexit – believing it to be the only way for the disenfranchised white working-class to fight back against the oft mentioned but hard to pin down, ‘liberal elite’.
Sarpong is on stronger ground when talking about income disparity – with her section on Grenfell being especially heartfelt. By way of contrast, the chapter on women was too long, for this reader at least, and made the same point repeatedly – that women are treated unfairly in the workplace, hardly earth-shattering news, however unpleasant the reality. She also makes good points about the economic benefits to employers of diversity – and shows how businesses that do not tap into this market will have problems in the future. Certainly it strikes me as plain bonkers that businesses, who exist to make money, turn their backs on people who may help a company to grow.
In addition, she also shows how men are sometimes moving into the traditional realms of women – by looking after children, for example. It would have been interesting to read more about the psychological problems this creates for men, but sadly this was not addressed.
Her chapter on the problems between young and old was also especially interesting, and she drew on the African ‘respect of elder’ tradition to infuse this section with real passion.
I also liked her continually stressing that one should always confront the ‘ism’ that most people hold deep down within – like a little gremlin that pops up on a whim. As I always tell my son: ‘bondage of the body can only be broken by freedom of the mind’ – advice he found useful when he was insulted throughout the land, for having the nerve to praise Donald Trump on Question Time, especially given his mixed heritage.
Sarpong is weak, however, when discussing Islamist terrorism, especially the moot point as to why do a minority of Muslims fall for IS propaganda. The answer, quite simply, is that they are following what is in the Koran. Now, I know that most Muslims would not interpret the Koran in a literal sense from centuries ago, but the terrorists are. It may not suit our liberal Western tendencies to admit this, but if we don’t we can never understand the reasoning of the Islamists and, more pertinently, the propagandists who twist religion into a weapon of war. Another point that I disagreed with is where she describes the people who commit terror attacks as also being victims. In a sense they are but I still find it slightly uneasy to put them in the same category as people who have been killed in an act of terror. The comparison with the IRA and the Islamists is also stretching a point as I never recall the IRA shouting ‘The Pope is great’ when committing atrocities. It is the Islamists that link the Islamic religion with terror, not the media or the population at large who, despite the recent rise in Islamophobia, have not bought into hate as a nationwide concept of revenge.
Funnily enough, when looking at the examples in this book I seem to tick nearly every ‘diversity’ box. By that I mean I am a white working-class punk rocker, slightly on the camp side, married to a middle-class Nigerian woman, who is a Tory at heart, and whose best man was a lesbian. One Love Two Colours: The Unlikely Marriage of a Punk Rocker and His African Queen. Bobby Smith and Margaret Oshindele-Smith In addition, I also took time off from work to be a househusband, when raising my two children. If that is not ‘diverse’ I don’t know what is! However, against all of this I only like English food, Oi! music and am obsessed with cricket – a very English past-time. I think, then, that my own example shows that if one accepts diversity on a personal level, they do not lose their cultural identity as a whole – a point I wished the book stressed.
Overall I couldn’t shake off the feeling that while some parts of the book demonstrated June’s passionate ‘Pledge’ character, other parts felt too cold and came over as if written by someone else.
I was also surprised that a book about diversity had almost nothing to say about mixed marriages, aside from a throwaway reference to June being personally diverse in her love life, as I felt this was a topic certain to crop up.
On a scientific basis I also thought that the issues of genes would get a mention, as it has been shown that the mixing of genes – such as those produced in mixed race children – are beneficial to the body as well.
Finally, I cannot finish this review without mentioning the ill-considered decision to have Action and Discussion points at the end of every section, as these merely come over as patronising and give the book a GCSE syllabus feel.
Then again, perhaps that was the target audience?
Still, no matter, this is a book obviously written by a kind heart with a wish to show how our similarities can ‘Trump’ any perceived difference – a message any fair-minded soul will concur with.
In the words of the new song by Slime, the German punk legends of old: ‘Let’s Get United’.
Indeed.

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Cecilia
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Reviewed in Spain on 7 July 2020
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Such an important book that everyone should read. Its very informative, brings facts on the table, but also gives qualitative data. She is giving a very important voice to the people that are often considered "weak" - thanks for that! By understanding and knowing, we can better accept and respect.

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