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Occupying the Academy
Just How Important Is Diversity Work in Higher Education?
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2012
Summary
In the wake of the election of President Obama, many diversity scholars and practitioners imagined that renewed commitments to educational equity and justice were just around the corner. Unfortunately, the opposite has become the Obama-era reality. Across the country, equity and diversity workers at all levels in university and colleges, but especially Chief Diversity Officers in public institutions, are under assault. Is this assault a result of a pre-meditated and carefully calculated conservative political agenda or the unfortunate consequence of how largely white, politically conservative—and the power bases they represent—are expressing their anger about the changing racial landscape in the United States? This volume explores and deconstructs the reasons for this assault from various perspectives. This volume also illustrates how the national assault on equity and diversity has resulted in a continuum. At one end are “diversity-friendly” institutions that are benignly neglecting equity/diversity efforts because of state budget crises. At the other end of the spectrum are the deliberate efforts being made to systematically dismantle equity and diversity work in especially politically conservative states.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-1272-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-1274-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
254
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Foreword No access
The Permanence of Diversity No access
La Permanencia de la Diversidad No access
Occupying Academia, Reaffirming Diversity No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 1. Extra, Extra, Read All About It!: Diversity Soul-ed Out (and Sold/Out) Here No access
Chapter 2. Balancing Act: A Contextual Case Analysis on Recentering Diversity in the Midst of Social and Economic Fluctuations No access
Chapter 3. Deconstructing Hope: A Chief Diversity Officer’s Dilemma in the Obama Era No access
Chapter 4. Transforming Lives and Communities: Case Study of a Diversity and Community Engagement Portfolio at a Flagship Institution No access
Chapter 5. Southern Predominantly White Institutions, Targeted Students, and the Intersectionality of Identity: Two Case Studies No access
Chapter 6. The Myth of Institutionalizing Diversity: Structures and the Covert Decisions They Make No access
Chapter 7. Swimming up Mainstream: Facing the Challenges to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion on a University of ACME, Regional Campus in Obama’s Era No access
Chapter 8. The Search for Questions and Tellings of Silenced Students No access
Chapter 9. The Evolution of a Campus: From the Seat of the Civil War to a Seat on the Freedom Rides No access
Chapter 10. The Unmet Promise: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of the Rise of an African American Studies Program No access
Chapter 11. “Just (Don’t) Do It!”: Tensions between Articulated Commitments and Action at The ACME State University No access
Chapter 12. Déjà Vu: Dynamism of Racism in Policies and Practices Aimed at Alleviating Discrimination No access
Chapter 13. “Isn’t Affirmative Action Illegal?” No access
Chapter 14. Equity at the Fringes: The Continuing Peripheral Enactment of Equity and Diversity in the Preparation of PK–12 Teachers No access
Chapter 15. On the Battlefield for Social Justice in the Education of Teachers: The Dangers and Dangerousness of Challenging Whiteness in Predominantly White Institutions and Teacher-Preparation Programs No access
So What? Who Cares? And What’s Our Point about Diversity? No access Pages 194 - 202
Carta al lector: Una Llamada para Ocupar No access Pages 203 - 206
An Open Letter: A Call to Occupy No access Pages 207 - 210
Afterword No access Pages 211 - 214
References No access Pages 215 - 238
Index No access Pages 239 - 244
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 245 - 254
