Diversity regimes : why talk is not enough to fix racial inequality at universities /
Thomas, James M., 1982-
Diversity regimes : why talk is not enough to fix racial inequality at universities / James M. Thomas. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (vii, 244 pages) : illustrations - The American campus .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Under the live, old oak trees -- Condensation and the alchemy of diversity -- Go your own way: the organizational structure of diversity -- Staging difference, performing diversity -- Diversity regimes and the reproduction of racial in equality -- Appendix: studying inequality, in situ.
"In Diversity Regimes, James M. Thomas uncovers a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize universities' commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic field work at so-called "Diversity University," Thomas provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices"--Publisher's description.
9781978800434 9781978800458
Discrimination in higher education--United States.
Educational equalization--United States.
Electronic Books.
LC212 / .D584 2020
Diversity regimes : why talk is not enough to fix racial inequality at universities / James M. Thomas. - New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (vii, 244 pages) : illustrations - The American campus .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Under the live, old oak trees -- Condensation and the alchemy of diversity -- Go your own way: the organizational structure of diversity -- Staging difference, performing diversity -- Diversity regimes and the reproduction of racial in equality -- Appendix: studying inequality, in situ.
"In Diversity Regimes, James M. Thomas uncovers a complex combination of meanings, practices, and actions that work to institutionalize universities' commitments to diversity, but in doing so obscure, entrench, and even magnify existing racial inequalities. Drawing on two years of ethnographic field work at so-called "Diversity University," Thomas provides new insights into the social organization of multicultural principles and practices"--Publisher's description.
9781978800434 9781978800458
Discrimination in higher education--United States.
Educational equalization--United States.
Electronic Books.
LC212 / .D584 2020