Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Anchorage

• Main Authors: Goldsmith, Scott, Frazier, Rosyland
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska. 2001
• Subjects: arctic communities; racial diversity; ethnic diversity; Anchorage; Arctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12067

In the spring of 2001, the Mayor of Anchorage, George Wuerch, tasked a Kitchen Cabinet Task Force with the goal of developing recommendations to help heal racism in Anchorage. The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) of the University of Alaska Anchorage agreed to assist the Task Force by conducting a series of focus groups in the community. The purpose of these focus groups was to obtain an assessment of attitudes and opinions about the quality of life in Anchorage from the perspective different racial groups and to solicit recommendations for improving race relations within the community.A more detailed analysis of the focus groups, based on a review of the focus group transcripts, would add more depth and detail, but we feel the main ideas identified during the focus groups are described in this report. Municipality of Anchorage