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?
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.
Acknowledgments Map and Tables Notes on Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1Diversity: Good for Maintaining the Status Quo, Not So Much for Real Progressive Change
âDavid G. Embrick
Part 2: Policy, Politics, and Practice
2Diversity and Affirmative Action: A Closer Look at Concepts and Goals
âSharon M. Collins
3Is Diversity Racial Justice? Affirmative Action in Admissions and the Promises and Perils of Law
âEllen Berrey
4Disfavored Subjects: How Liberalist Diversity Fails Racial Equity in Higher Education
âJoyce M. Bell and Wendy Leo Moore
5âBoatloads of Moneyâ in the Great Equalizer: How Diversity Furthers Inequality at the Neoliberal University
âMichael 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
âTiffany Davis, Wendy Leo Moore and Joyce M. Bell
7âFormed, Transformed, Destroyed, and Re-formedâ: Diversity Formation at a Majority-Minority University
âShan Mukhtar
10Diversity in the Church: A Comparative Analysis of Multiracial, White, and Black Congregations
âMichelle S. Dodson
11âNot in My Backyardâ: How Abstract Liberalism and Colorblind Diversity Undermines Racial Justice
âLaurie Cooper Stoll and Megan Klein
12Sympathetic Racism: Color-Blind Discourseâs Liberal Flair in Three Diverse Communities
âMeghan A. Burke
Part 6: Diversity and Complex Organizations
13When a Lack of Diversity Matters: How Juvenile Justice Professionals See Non-White Juveniles
âPaul R. Ketchum
14Critical Diversity in the U.S. Military: From Diversity to Racialized Organizations
âVictor Erik Ray
15Undermining Prisoner Re-entry Initiatives: Neoliberalism, Race and Profits
âEdward Orozco Flores
Part 7: Meanings, Discourse, and Identity
16On-Demand Diversity? The Meanings of Racial Diversity in Netflix Productions
âBianca Gonzalez-Sobrino, Emma González-Lesser and Matthew W. Hughey
17From Capital to Credit: On the Contingent Value of Difference within Diversity Discourse
âAntonia Randolph
18The Spectacle of Volunteerism: Aid, Africa, and the Western Helper
âMichele C. Deramo
Index
All interested in critical issues of diversity, inclusion, and multiculturalism, and anyone concerned with racism, sexism, and other social inequalities, in general.