Diversity Regimes: Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities: The American Campus
Autor James M. Thomasen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mai 2020 – vârsta ani
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As a major, public flagship university in the American South, so-called “Diversity University” has struggled to define its commitments to diversity and inclusion, and to put those commitments into practice. In Diversity Regimes, sociologist James M. Thomas draws on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork at DU to illustrate the conflicts and contingencies between a core set of actors at DU over what diversity is and how it should be accomplished. Thomas’s analysis of this dynamic process uncovers what he calls “diversity regimes”: a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Thomas’s concept of diversity regimes, and his focus on how they are organized and unfold in real time, provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices.
As a major, public flagship university in the American South, so-called “Diversity University” has struggled to define its commitments to diversity and inclusion, and to put those commitments into practice. In Diversity Regimes, sociologist James M. Thomas draws on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork at DU to illustrate the conflicts and contingencies between a core set of actors at DU over what diversity is and how it should be accomplished. Thomas’s analysis of this dynamic process uncovers what he calls “diversity regimes”: a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Thomas’s concept of diversity regimes, and his focus on how they are organized and unfold in real time, provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781978800410
ISBN-10: 197880041X
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 3 b&w images, 4 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria The American Campus
ISBN-10: 197880041X
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 3 b&w images, 4 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria The American Campus
Notă biografică
JAMES M. THOMAS (JT) is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He is the author of Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-up Comedy Venues, and the coauthor of Affective Labor: (Dis)Assembling Difference and Distance and Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity.
Cuprins
1. Introduction
2. Under the Live, Old Oaks
3. Condensation and the Alchemy of Diversity
4. Go Your Own Way: The Organizational Structure of Diversity
5. Staging Difference, Performing Diversity
6. Diversity Regimes and the Reproduction of Racial Inequality
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
2. Under the Live, Old Oaks
3. Condensation and the Alchemy of Diversity
4. Go Your Own Way: The Organizational Structure of Diversity
5. Staging Difference, Performing Diversity
6. Diversity Regimes and the Reproduction of Racial Inequality
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
“A truth-telling sociological masterpiece. With impressive rigor, Thomas offers compelling insights into processes that almost always fail to actualize espoused institutional commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Every college and university leader, especially presidents, should read this important book.”
"Thorough and insightful on many levels, Diversity Regimes provides a unique exploration of how the approaches taken to diversity work in higher education can reinforce instead of redress racial inequality on college campuses."
"Diversity Regimes: Author discusses his new book on 'why talk is not enough to fix racial inequality at universities,'" by Scott Jaschik
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/16/author-discusses-his-new-book-universitys-approach-diversity
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/16/author-discusses-his-new-book-universitys-approach-diversity
"This book is critically important reading for scholars of racism, higher education, organizations, and critical studies of discourse. Diversity Regimes is also an ideal model for those early career scholars who are moving their dissertation to book due to its clarity of exposition and tight argumentation. Many college presidents, diversity officers, student affairs professionals, and diversity workers will recognize condensation, decentralization, and staging diversity in their own institutions. They should all read this book. As Maya Angelou said, ‘Know better, do better.’"
"Thomas analyzes in-depth interviews with 26 administrators, faculty, staff, and students according to central themes he summarizes from his fieldwork engaging in campus diversity events and reading institutional documents....Both his sharp critiques of the status quo throughout the book and his four insightful recommendations at the end afford opportunities for readers, especially university leaders and educators, to advance racial equity. Essential."
Descriere
In Diversity Regimes, James M. Thomas uncovers a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize universities’ commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic field work at so-called “Diversity University,” Thomas provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices.