The contributors to this edited volume offer critical analyses on many aspects of diversity as it pertains to institutional policies, practices, discourse, and beliefs. The book is broken down into 19 chapters over 7 sections that cover: policies and politics; pedagogy and higher education; STEM; religion; communities; complex organisations; and discourse and identity.
Collectively, these chapters contribute to answering three main questions:
1) what, ultimately, does diversity mean
2) what are the various mechanisms by which institutions understand and use diversity
3) why is it important for us to rethink diversity?
"Table of Contents Acknowledgments Map and Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 Diversity: Good for Maintaining the Status Quo, Not So Much for Real Progressive Change David G. Embrick Part 2: Policy, Politics, and Practice 2 Diversity and Affirmative Action: A Closer Look at Concepts and Goals Sharon M. Collins 3 Is Diversity Racial Justice? Affirmative Action in Admissions and the Promises and Perils of Law Ellen Berrey 4 Disfavored Subjects: How Liberalist Diversity Fails Racial Equity in Higher Education Joyce M. Bell and Wendy Leo Moore 5 ""Boatloads of Money"" in the Great Equalizer: How Diversity Furthers Inequality at the Neoliberal University Michael Kreiter and Arthur Scarritt Part 3: Pedagogy and Transformation in Higher Education 6 Teaching in Black and White: Reflections of Teaching the Social Construction of Race Tiffany Davis, Wendy Leo Moore and Joyce M. Bell 7 ""Formed, Transformed, Destroyed, and Re-formed"": Diversity Formation at a Majority-Minority University Shan Mukhtar Part 4: Diversity and stem 8 Diversity in stem : How Gendered Structures Affect Women's Participation in Science Marie des Neiges Léonard 9 Equal Opportunity in Science: Diversity as an Economic and Social Justice Imperative Enobong Hannah Branch and Sharla Alegria Part 5: Diversity and Communities 10 Diversity in the Church: A Comparative Analysis of Multiracial, White, and Black Congregations Michelle S. Dodson 11 ""Not in My Backyard"": How Abstract Liberalism and Colorblind Diversity Undermines Racial Justice Laurie Cooper Stoll and Megan Klein 12 Sympathetic Racism: Color-Blind Discourse's Liberal Flair in Three Diverse Communities Meghan A. Burke Part 6: Diversity and Complex Organizations 13 When a Lack of Diversity Matters: How Juvenile Justice Professionals See Non-White Juveniles Paul R. Ketchum 14 Critical Diversity in the U.S. Military: From Diversity to Racialized Organizations Victor Erik Ray 15 Undermining Prisoner Re-entry Initiatives: Neoliberalism, Race and Profits Edward Orozco Flores Part 7: Meanings, Discourse, and Identity 16 On-Demand Diversity? The Meanings of Racial Diversity in Netflix Productions Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino, Emma González-Lesser and Matthew W. Hughey 17 From Capital to Credit: On the Contingent Value of Difference within Diversity Discourse Antonia Randolph 18 The Spectacle of Volunteerism: Aid, Africa, and the Western Helper Michele C. Deramo Index"
David G. Embrick, Ph.D. (2006), Texas A&M University, is Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. He has published extensively in journals such as Critical Sociology, Social Problems, and Journal of Symbolic Interaction. Sharon M. Collins, Ph.D. (1988), Northwestern University, is Associate Professor Emerita of Sociology at University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published extensively, to include Black Corporate Executives (Temple University Press, 1997). Michelle Dodson is an advanced graduate student at Loyola University Chicago.
