Challenging the Status Quo

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-29121-8
Verlag: de Gruyter Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 123, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

In Challenging the Status Quo: Diversity, Democracy, and Equality in the 21st Century, David G. Embrick, Sharon M. Collins, and Michelle Dodson have compiled the latest ideas and scholarship in the area of diversity and inclusion. The contributors in this edited book 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 organizations; 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; and 3) and why is it important for us to rethink diversity?

Contributors: Sharla Alegria, Joyce M. Bell, Sharon M. Collins, Ellen Berrey, Enobong Hannah Branch, Meghan A. Burke, Tiffany Davis, Michele C. Deramo, Michelle Dodson, David G. Embrick, Edward Orozco Flores, Emma González-Lesser, Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino, Matthew W. Hughey, Paul R. Ketchum, Megan Klein, Michael Kreiter, Marie des Neiges Léonard, Wendy Leo Moore, Shan Mukhtar, Antonia Randolph, Victor Erik Ray, Arthur Scarritt, Laurie Cooper Stoll.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Embrick, David G

Weitere Mitwirkende

Embrick, David G.

Collins, Sharon M.

Dodson, Michelle S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Map and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Introduction

1Diversity: Good for Maintaining the Status Quo, Not So Much for Real Progressive Change

David G. Embrick

Part 2: Policy, Politics, and Practice

2Diversity and Affirmative Action: A Closer Look at Concepts and Goals

Sharon M. Collins

3Is Diversity Racial Justice? Affirmative Action in Admissions and the Promises and Perils of Law

Ellen Berrey

4Disfavored 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

6Teaching 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

8Diversity in stem: How Gendered Structures Affect Women’s Participation in Science

Marie des Neiges Léonard

9Equal Opportunity in Science: Diversity as an Economic and Social Justice Imperative

Enobong Hannah Branch and Sharla Alegria

Part 5: Diversity and Communities

10Diversity 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

12Sympathetic Racism: Color-Blind Discourse’s Liberal Flair in Three Diverse Communities

Meghan A. Burke

Part 6: Diversity and Complex Organizations

13When a Lack of Diversity Matters: How Juvenile Justice Professionals See Non-White Juveniles

Paul R. Ketchum

14Critical Diversity in the U.S. Military: From Diversity to Racialized Organizations

Victor Erik Ray

15Undermining Prisoner Re-entry Initiatives: Neoliberalism, Race and Profits

Edward Orozco Flores

Part 7: Meanings, Discourse, and Identity

16On-Demand Diversity? The Meanings of Racial Diversity in Netflix Productions

Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino, Emma González-Lesser and Matthew W. Hughey

17From Capital to Credit: On the Contingent Value of Difference within Diversity Discourse

Antonia Randolph

18The Spectacle of Volunteerism: Aid, Africa, and the Western Helper

Michele C. Deramo

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.