González Stokas / Stokas Reparative Universities

Why Diversity Alone Won't Solve Racism in Higher Ed
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4214-4561-8
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Critical University Studies

A timely investigation of why diversity alone is insufficient in higher education and how universities can use reparative actions to become anti-racist institutions.

As institutions increasingly reckon with histories entangled with slavery and Indigenous dispossession, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts occupy a central role in the strategy and resources of higher education. Yet reparation is rarely offered as a viable strategy for institutional transformation. In Reparative Universities, Ariana González Stokas undertakes a critical and decolonial analysis of DEI work, linking contemporary practices of diversity to longer colonial histories. González Stokas argues that diversity is an insufficient concept for efforts concerned with anti-oppression, anti-racism, equity, and decolonization. Given its historical ties to colonialism, can higher education foster reconciliation and healing?

Reparation is offered as a pathway toward untangling higher education from its colonial roots. González Stokas develops the term "epistemic reparation" to describe a mode of social-historical accountability that can already be seen at work in historical examples, as well as current events in the United States, South Africa, and Canada. Recent legal decisions by Georgetown University and the Princeton Theological seminary to enact economic recompense for buying and selling human beings are evidence of attempts to redress higher education's violent histories and the colonial structures they reproduce every day on college campuses.

Engaging with a broad range of theories from decolonial philosophy to organizational psychology, González Stokas offers a pathway—guided by reparative activities—for institutional workers frustrated by what often feels, as Sara Ahmed describes, like "banging one's head against a brick wall." Reparative Universities offers insight into why DEI efforts have been disconnected from past injustices and why unsettling diversity and engaging meaningful repair are critical for the future of higher education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

González Stokas, Ariana

Stokas, Ariana Gonzalez

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prelude
Introduction
Part I: A Cabinet of Diversity
1. Object 1: Diversity Doesn't Work?
2. Object 2: Dominance
3. Object 3: From Wunderkammner to the Majors
4. Object 4: Patrol/Willy
5. Object 5: Accumulation/Difference that Makes No Difference
6. Object 6: Colorblindness/Federalist Paper no.6
7. Object 7: Partition/No. 76-811: A Grievance Not of Their Making
8. Object 8: The Morrill Acts: "The Land Grab University"
9. Afterthoughts
Part II: The Constellation of Reparation
10. Star 1: Attempted Remedies
11. Star 2: Outlines of Epistemic Reparation
12. Star 3: How is a University like a Light Switch?
13. Afterthoughts
Part III: Reparative Endeavors
14. Thread 1: Why Poetics?
15. Thread 2: Breath-Taking Landscapes: Place based interventions
16. Thread 3: Counter-space as the dramatization of a poetics of refusal
17. Thread 4: Gates/Gatekeeping
18. Thread 5: Unraveling Patrol
19. Thread 6: From Rank to Rhizome
20. Afterthoughts
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

González Stokas, Ariana
Ariana González Stokas (TORONTO, ON) has spent the last two decades working in institutions as a faculty member and senior-level DEI administrator committed to co-inventing what is possible in learning environments.

Ariana González Stokas (TORONTO, ON) has spent the last two decades working in institutions as a faculty member and senior-level DEI administrator committed to co-inventing what is possible in learning environments.